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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8 Use Cases for Natural Language Processing (NLP) Technology in Healthcare
A look at natural language processing (NLP) technology's top potential use cases reveals how its destined to disrupt healthcare.It’s no secret that the big data wave had been building in healthcare for some time. What has somewhat remained a bit mysterious, however, is how innovators planned to stave the flood and make use of the sizeable data to help healthcare providers create efficiencies and improve outcomes. According to a recent Chilmark report, natural language processing (NLP) may be the
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Shivom Partners With Lifebit To Power AI-Analysis of DNA Data For Clinical Trials
Shivom, the blockchain genomics platform that is powering personalized healthcare, has partnered with Lifebit, the AI-powered DNA-analysis firm, to give users unprecedented reporting capabilities for DNA data analysis. The partnership will mean that immediate Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) analysis is possible, with no specialist knowledge or in-house data scientist required. It also means that users can access a library of pipelines (ready-built software that is used for analysis) and an
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VMT Lands Grant to Enable Accurate Extraction of Clinical Outcomes from Real World Evidence (RWE)
The National Science Foundation, today announced a grant to VMT for developing technology focused on pragmatic clinical trials allowing clinical outcomes to be extracted from real-world data. VMT is a medical technology incubation firm, developing and commercializing cutting-edge healthcare products to address critical healthcare needs. The approach uses artificial intelligence to dive deep into the electronic health record (EHR) for outcome data to enable EHR-based pragmatic clinical trials.
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Massachusetts General Hospital to Deploy CarePassport’s Digital Health Platform for Clinical Trials
Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding hospital of Partners HealthCare, announced it will implement CarePassport's digital health platform for patient monitoring and engagement in research studies. The largest hospital-based research program in the nation selected the Boston-based company to enhance its research processes in clinical trials by enabling two-way communication with patients and collecting more structured health data throughout the patient's medical journey.CarePassport's
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