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4 Keys to Modernizing Public Health Data Collection and Analysis

by Kenyon Crowley, Ph.D., Health Analytics Lead, Accenture Federal Services 05/09/2023 Leave a Comment

4 Keys to Modernizing Public Health Data Collection and Analysis

The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the urgent need to modernize the nation’s public health system. Despite success in rapidly developing vaccines, the unprecedented public health emergency also exposed significant gaps in U.S. public health infectious disease data collection and analysis methods which are critical for identifying behavioral risk factors and preventive actions. The Problem Unfortunately, inefficiency remains a hallmark of the U.S. public health surveillance system
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HLTH22: COTA and Google Partner to Use NLP to Harness Unstructured Oncology Data

by Fred Pennic 11/14/2022 Leave a Comment

COTA and Google Partner to Use NLP to Harness Unstructured Oncology Data

What You Should Know: COTA, Inc., an oncology real-world data and analytics company announced a partnership with Google Cloud to bring clarity to unstructured oncology data through the latest advancements in machine learning and natural language processing. - Many leading real-world data companies - including COTA - leverage clinicians to manually curate oncology real-world data. While this is a reliable and trusted near-term solution to overcoming the challenges associated with
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Mount Sinai Develops Employee Health Contact Tracing Database to Mitigate COVID-19 Spread

by Jasmine Pennic 11/01/2022 Leave a Comment

Mount Sinai Develops Employee Health Contact Tracing Database to Mitigate COVID-19 Spread

What You Should Know: - Mount Sinai researchers have developed an Employee Health COVID-19 REDCap Registry to address the need for contact tracing and agile exposure investigations to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among hospital staff. - Employee Health COVID-19 REDCap Registry is a cloud-based digital framework using the Research Electronic Data Capture web application—to track and reduce the spread of the virus across the Mount Sinai Health System including 8 hospitals and more than
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Children’s Oncology Group Taps Tempus to Provide Genomic Sequencing for Pediatric Cancer Patients

by Jasmine Pennic 09/20/2022 Leave a Comment

Children’s Oncology Group Taps Tempus to Provide Genomic Sequencing for Pediatric Cancer Patients

What You Should Know: -Tempus, an $8B precision medicine company, is providing genomic sequencing for 300 eligible pediatric cancer patients annually through their new collaboration with the Children’s Oncology Group (COG). Tempus’ support for COG – a leader in pediatric oncology research – will assist with matching patients to clinical trials like the Pediatric MATCH Screening Trial APEC1621SC (NCT03155620), which is studying the effectiveness of genetic testing-directed treatment in
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Precision Medicine: Is Personalized Care Really Here?

by Jasmine Pennic 06/29/2022 Leave a Comment

Is Personalized Care Really Here

What You Should Know: - New Definitive Healthcare report, Is Personalized Care Really Here? analyzes the US claims data to review how precision medicine has been used in recent years for cancer, transplant matching, genetic testing during pregnancy and more. - Trends within — and adjacent to — precision medicine suggests that consumer preferences for more effective, convenient and affordable care are driving rising rates of precision medicine procedures. Furthermore, the data reveal the
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Seven Bridges, USP, Google Cloud to Build A Brazilian Reference Genome

by Fred Pennic 04/21/2022 Leave a Comment

Golden Valley Memorial Goes Live on MEDITECH Expanse Genomics

What You Should Know: - Seven Bridges, a bioinformatics ecosystem provider, announced it is collaborating with the University of São Paulo (USP) and Google Cloud, as well as the Associação Genomas Brasil (Brazil Genome Association), to assist the DNA do Brasil (DNABr) project in building a reference genome that represents the genetic diversity of the Brazilian population. - The joint effort will advance unbiased precision medicine for underrepresented populations in Brazil through the
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Why Cancer Registries are Part of America’s Fight for Racial Equality

by Warren A Whyte, Ph.D., VP Scientific Partnerships at ConcertAI 02/09/2021 Leave a Comment

Why Cancer Registries are Part of America’s Fight for Racial Equality by Warren A Whyte, Ph.D.,

According to a 2019 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one in 1,000 Black males can expect to die at the hands of the police. Black males were also 2.5 times more likely to die during an encounter with police than white males. For some, those figures are staggering. For many others, they are reminders of the racial disparities that have existed for far too long in this country. So, in 2020, when recent events have brought racial injustice back into the national
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NIH Funds First Nationwide Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network

by Fred Pennic 10/02/2020 Leave a Comment

NIH Funds First Nationwide Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network

What You Should Know: - NIH awards funding for Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network, or RADIANT that will seek to discover the cause of several unusual forms of diabetes. - RADIANT plans to screen about 2,000 people with unknown or atypical forms of diabetes that do not fit the common features of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The National Institute of Health (NIH), announced this week it is funding a nationwide study with The Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network (RADIANT) that will seek
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Analysis: Applying AI in the Fight Against The Coronavirus

by Dr. Ulrik Kristensen, Senior Market Analyst at Signify Research 04/01/2020 Leave a Comment

The Many Faces of AI in Clinical Trials

Drug discovery is a notoriously long, complex and expensive process requiring the concerted efforts of the world’s brightest minds. The complexity in understanding human physiology and molecular mechanisms is increasing with every new research paper published and for every new compound tested. As the world is facing a new challenge in trying to both adapt to and defend itself against the coronavirus, artificial intelligence is offering new hope that a cure might be developed faster than ever
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AMA Grants New CPT Code for KidneyIntelX to Support Medicare & Reimbursement

by Fred Pennic 07/01/2019 Leave a Comment

5 Opportunities to Increase Electronic Exchange of Medical Documentation

The American Medical Association (AMA) has granted a CPT® Proprietary Laboratory Analyses (PLA) Code for Renayltix AI’s lead product, KidneyIntelX. The new code, 0105U, has been approved and published by the AMA CPT Editorial Panel, and is scheduled to become effective on October 1, 2019.Medicare Price for New CPT CodeA payment rate for the new code will be established for Medicare patients through the 2019 Clinical Lab Fee Schedule (CLFS) Annual Public Meeting process. Renayltix AI will shortly
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