On the 4th March 2020, TeraRecon announced it had signed an agreement to be acquired by the SymphonyAI Group. Here are the facts of the deal, followed by our take on the potential impact on the medical imaging market:
- The terms of the deal were not disclosed and TeraRecon will continue to operate business as usual. However, it will benefit from greater financial backing and the synergistic technologies from other companies in the Group’s portfolio.
- TeraRecon is an Advanced
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Wolters Kluwer, SAS Integrate to Power Real-World Evidence (RWE) Analytics
- SAS to leverage Wolters Kluwer’s Health Language portfolio of data quality solutions to power real-world evidence (RWE) analytics within SAS Health.
- Through a disease-centric approach, Health Language will enable SAS Health’s clients to more effectively manage reference data, such as ICD-10, CPT® and SNOMED CT, establish relationships between clinical and claims data and extract value from unstructured text within the medical record–providing a comprehensive view of a patient’s clinical
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The Many Faces of AI in Clinical Trials
AI is being applied in several aspects for the clinical trial process today. From analyzing real-world data and scientific information to providing improved patient stratification and predictive outcomes, and assisting with different aspects of clinical trial operations. Here are some of the technologies using AI and machine learning in the clinical trial space today, outlining how they fit within the clinical trial ecosystem and discuss the impact on future clinical trial designs.
The
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Life Image Launches Network Build to Help Providers Build Large-Scale Patient Data Networks
- Life Image launches Network Build Enterprise Solution to help healthcare organizations establish their own network connections to coordinate care and innovate. - Network Build allows healthcare organizations to create customized medical networks that can handle intensive data (e.g. diagnostic images, pathology, genomics, etc.) critical for advancing medical device development, clinical trials and more.Life Image, the world’s largest medical evidence network for clinical and imaging data,
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El Camino Health Offers Personalized Chatbot to Patients with COPD
- El Camino Health is now offering personalized virtual health assistant to patients suffering from COPD via Conversa Health partnership designed to improve respiratory care coordination and patient experience.
- Innovative 2 BREATHE (Be Resilient EAch Time after a Hospital Event) chat program leverages Conversa’s patient engagement platform assigns patients with a respiratory therapist and a pulmonary nurse practitioner for personalized treatment to help patients breathe easier.
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MedStar Health Joins Cerner Learning Health Network to Leverage Cerner EHR & HealtheIntent to Support Clinical Research
- MedStar Health is the first provider to join the Cerner Learning Health Network to provide health systems and clinical research organization with resources to more efficiently conduct medical studies.- As a member of the network, MedStar Health has the opportunity to leverage the Cerner EHR and HealtheIntent to support research.- The network automates de-identified clinical data collection from participating members into a database that health systems can access for approved clinical
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Brainlab Acquires Patient-Centered Outcomes Platform VisionTree
- Brainlab acquires VisionTree Software Inc., a San Diego, CA-based provider of modular, cloud-based, patient-centered outcomes platform for specialty patient care, engagement and research. - The established ePRO solution will complement the Brainlab cloud-based infrastructure and registry solution aiming to deliver patient engagement and even more comprehensive quality reporting.- Brainlab will continue to invest in the VTOC platform aiming to facilitate data collection across all available
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Notable Launches Observational Clinical Trial for Patients with Blood Cancer
- Notable launches The ANSWer Study, it's new observational clinical trial for patients with blood cancer and is currently enrolling patients.- The primary assessment is to establish a tumor registry with annotated clinical outcomes.Notable, a San Francisco, CA-based company redefining cancer treatment with a clinically validated platform that rapidly advances drug development, is currently enrolling patients in its new observational clinical trial. The clinical trial will take place at
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Leveraging AI and Machine Learning to Advance Interoperability in Healthcare
(Left- Wilson To, Head of Worldwide Healthcare BD, Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Patrick Combes, Worldwide Technical Leader - Healthcare and Life Sciences at Amazon Web Services (AWS)- Right)Navigating the healthcare system is often a complex journey involving multiple physicians from hospitals, clinics, and general practices. At each junction, healthcare providers collect data that serve as pieces in a patient’s medical puzzle. When all of that data can be shared at each point, the puzzle is
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SubjectWell Expands Its Clinical Trials Marketplace to United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa
- SubjectWell announced it is expanding its risk-free clinical trials marketplace into the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa. - With 86% of clinical trials operating sites outside of the U.S., the company continues to develop a more streamlined and complete risk-free patient recruitment offering, now with global reach. SubjectWell, an Austin, TX-based risk-free clinical trials marketplace announced it has expanded its patient recruitment services into the United Kingdom, Ireland, and
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