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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Life Image, Medel.ai Integrates to Support AI-Driven Clinical Trails
Life Image, a global network for sharing clinical and imaging data, today announced a new partnership with Mendel.ai, a novel AI platform built to turbocharge oncology clinical research, to support the adoption of AI in site selection and patient recruitment for clinical trials.According to Accenture, AI-powered clinical trial identifier apps are expected to save the industry $13B by 2026. This strategic partnership between Life Image and Mendel addresses this demand by combining the power of
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Allergan Joins TriNetX to Access Network of Real-World Data for Clinical Research
TriNetX, the global health research network, today announced that globally recognized leader in the pharmaceutical industry Allergan has joined their network for real-time access to patient populations, driven and refreshed by clinical data, to determine protocol feasibility, cohort analysis, and site identification.As a member of the network, Allergan will be able to leverage real-time access to de-identified real-world data from more than 135 million patients in order to make more informed
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Israeli Startup Alpha Tau Medical Raises $29M for Radiation Cancer Therapy
Alpha Tau Medical, an Israeli medical tech startup developer of a breakthrough alpha radiation cancer therapy, today announced it has raised $29 million in funding led by Shavit Capital. The round also included participation from OurCrowd.com, Medison Ventures and significant private investors contributed to the funding round including the preeminent international social impact VC and private equity investors, Sir Ronald Cohen and Alan Patricof, the founders of Apax Partners.Founded in 2016,
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Akouos Raises $50M to Advance Precision Medicine for Hearing Disorders
Akouos, a Boston, MA-based precision genetic medicine company developing gene therapies that restore and preserve hearing has raised $50 million in Series A funding co-led by 5AM Ventures and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from existing investor Partners Innovation Fund and new investors Sofinnova Ventures, RA Capital Management and Novartis Venture Fund. The company plans to use the funding round to advance its lead program to first-in-human clinical trials and bolster its
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