Most people are now familiar with social media influencers. They're the individuals who use their popularity to encourage followers to try clothing brands, food, makeup, and gadgets. As anyone who watched either of the two Fyre Festival documentaries now knows, they can be instrumental in getting people on board with things associated with disastrous consequences.
There's a relatively new concept in the influencer world. It involves people known as patient influencers doing just as the name
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Virginia Tech Launches Clinical Trial for Rehabilitating Infant Stroke Victims
Virginia Tech, today announced the launch of the nation's first multicenter pediatric stroke recovery trial for researchers and clinicians from 12 sites across the United States will evaluate an innovative therapeutic approach to help 8-month-old to 24-month-old infants. Named The clinical trial is funded by a five-year, $13.5 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health.
I-ACQUIRE Trial Overview
Strokes are
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TriNetX Lands $40M to Expand Global Health Research Network
TriNetX, a Cambridge, MA-based global health research network that optimizes clinical research and enables discoveries through the creation of real-world evidence (RWE) has raised $40 million in Series D funding. The Series D funding round was led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHIF) along with new investors Mitsui & Co., Ltd., ITOCHU Technology Ventures, ITOCHU Corporation, and existing investors MPM Capital, F2 Ventures, and Deerfield Management. To date, TriNetX has raised
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Northwell Health Adopts NLP Tech to Accelerate Patient Identification for Clinical Trials
Northwell Health has implemented Clinithink's natural language processing (NLP) solution, CLiX ENRICH to reinvent the clinical trial feasibility model – enabling the rapid identification of potential patients for clinical trials that had simply been missed before. The solution has allowed Northwell to successfully identifying candidates for clinical trials in hours not months.
Proof of Concept Study Details
By quickly and efficiently processing existing unstructured patient data, sites are able
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Microsoft Develops New Chatbot to Match Patients to Clinical Trials Easier
Microsoft has developed a clinical trials chatbot designed to optimize matching patients with appropriate clinical trials, Bloomberg first reports. By using AI-driven machine reading technology to ingest the selection criteria for each clinical trial, the chatbot uses this data to determine which questions to ask patients and matches their answers to suitable clinical trials. The chatbot initially started as a hackathon project at Microsoft’s Corp’s lab in Israel and is part of a larger
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Ochsner Health and Pfizer to Develop Innovative Models for Clinical Trials
Ochsner Health System and Pfizer Inc, today announced it has entered into a multi-year strategic alliance to develop innovative models for clinical trials that will explore ways to enhance the clinical trial experience and ease participation in clinical research for both patients and healthcare professionals. Through its innovation lab, innovationOchsner (iO), in partnership with Oschner Research, the alliance aims to create faster, improved access and connectivity to clinical trials for
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Teckro Lands $25M to Make Clinical Trials Data Accessible to Research Staff
Teckro, an NYC-based technology platform that makes the conduct of clinical trials simple, more transparent and more inclusive for doctors, research nurses and patients announced it has raised $25 million in funding. The Series C funding round was led by Northpond Ventures with participation from Founders Fund, Sands Capital Ventures, Bill Maris’ Section 32 venture fund, and Borealis Ventures. Teckro’s total funding now stands at $43 million.Making Your Clinical Trial Information Instantly
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HIMSS19 Day 2 Announcements & Summary
Accenture: Millenials & Gen Z Are Shifting to Virtual, Retail, Clinic, Digital CareMillennial and Gen Z consumers in the U.S. are rapidly adopting non-traditional care models, such as retail clinics, virtual and digital services, according to results of an Accenture survey of 2,000 consumers.Key findings of the survey study include:- When considering traditional in-person care, millennials (ages 22 to 38 in 2019) were two to three times more likely than baby boomers (ages 55 to 73) to be
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Propeller Health Partners with Orion’s Easyhaler Line of Inhalers for Asthma
Orion and Propeller Health have announced a partnership to connect Orion's Easyhaler line of inhalers for asthma and COPD to Propeller's digital medicine platform. Propeller and Orion will partner to develop a custom sensor for Easyhaler, which will attach to the inhaler and pair to Propeller’s mobile app to track medication use and provide personal feedback. Development begins in 2019, with clinical trials and commercial roll-out to follow. This partnership expands Propeller’s presence in
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HSBlox’s Blockchain Advances Clinical Trial Sample Management with Increased Visibility,
HSBlox, a technology company that is bringing innovation and transparent economics to the healthcare ecosystem, today announced the launch of its Digital Sample Manager (DSM) solution, which leverages blockchain technology (distributed ledger technology or DLT) to bring improved visibility, transparency and tracking to the chain of custody in clinical trials. The solution provides end-to-end sample tracking and real-time status updates to all chain of custody entities.Advancing Clinical Trial
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