What You Should Know:
- Lunit, a provider of AI for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate the delivery of AI-powered healthcare solutions globally.
- The partnership, coupled with Lunit’s recent acquisition of Volpara (a Microsoft Industry Health Certified Partner), aims to provide health professionals worldwide with advanced tools for cancer detection.
Driving Scalable, Integrated AI in Healthcare
The strategic
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Oncology Technology Solutions, Services Impacting Patients and Providers
Artera Launches Real-World Registry to Track AI’s Impact in Cancer Care
What You Should Know:
- Artera, the developer of multimodal artificial intelligence (MMAI)-based prognostic and predictive cancer tests, today announced the launch of its DIRECT-AI registry study. This new study will assess how the ArteraAI Prostate Test influences treatment decision-making between clinicians and patients with localized prostate cancer.
- The study will also monitor participants to evaluate their long-term cancer outcomes, reinforcing Artera's commitment to advancing
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Cleveland Clinic & Amwell Expand Virtual Cancer Concierge Program Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic, a leading provider of virtual second opinions (VSOs), announced the expansion of Cancer Concierge by Cleveland Clinic—a program connecting cancer patients across the U.S. with expert oncology subspecialists.
- The program, offered by The Clinic and its partner Amwell, expands on traditional VSOs by offering advanced subspecialty reviews, insight into innovative treatments and trials, cancer education content, and optional follow-up
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85% of Cancer Patients Face Unnecessary Insurance “Red Tape” Due to Prior Authorization, Says New CancerCare Report
What You Should Know:
- A new national survey from CancerCare reveals how insurance utilization management practices, particularly prior authorization, create serious and stressful barriers to care for cancer patients. The report, titled "The Health Insurance Maze: How Cancer Patients Get Lost in the Red Tape of Utilization Management," found that these requirements frequently delay diagnosis and treatment, adding significant "time toxicity" to patients' lives.
- The
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Full-Body MRI Detects Cancers Missed by Standard Screenings
What You Should Know:
- Prenuvo, a leader in whole-body MRI for proactive health screening, today announced compelling results from its Polaris study. The real-world study of over 1,000 asymptomatic individuals found that whole-body MRI scans can detect critical conditions, including early-stage cancers, that are often missed by current standard screening guidelines.
- The findings have been peer-reviewed and accepted for presentation at the American Association for Cancer
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ASCO and Google Cloud Launch AI-Powered Guidelines Assistant to Transform Oncology Decision-Making
What You Should Know:
- The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and Google Cloud today announced a collaboration to launch an AI-based ASCO Guidelines Assistant.
- Developed using Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform and advanced Gemini models, this innovative tool is set to revolutionize how oncology professionals access and utilize critical clinical recommendations.
AI-Powered Access to Trusted Clinical Recommendations
A cornerstone of the ASCO Guidelines
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McKesson Launches Precision Care Companion for Biomarker-Driven Cancer Care
What You Should Know:
- McKesson has unveiled the Precision Care Companion (PCC), a transformative initiative designed to tackle the multifaceted challenges that healthcare practices face in the rapidly evolving landscape of genomic testing and targeted therapies.
- The Precision Care Companion is structured as a consortium of leading industry experts, spearheaded by McKesson. This collaborative model is intentionally designed to foster a dynamic environment that unites a diverse
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Daymark Health Launches with $11.5M to Redefine Cancer Care
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- Daymark Health, a company aiming to redefine the cancer care experience, has publicly launched with an $11.5M in seed funding co-led by Maverick Ventures and Yosemite, with additional participation from Oncology Ventures. Daymark was launched out of Healthcare Foundry, with Robert Pahlavan and Jonathan Rhodes as co-founders leading thesis development.
- The company began operations this year in partnership with a leading payer in the Northeast, providing
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Flatiron Health, NRG Oncology to Streamline Cancer Clinical Trials with EHR-to-EDC
What You Should Know:
- Flatiron Health, a healthtech company focused on revolutionizing clinical research through technology integration, has announced a collaboration with NRG Oncology, a clinical research consortium within the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN).
- The partnership aims to deploy Flatiron’s Clinical Pipe™ in a multicenter NRG clinical trial, streamlining data entry and accelerating study timelines.
Supporting
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AI Accelerates Cancer Research: ACS Partners with Layer Health for LLM Data Extraction
What You Should Know:
- The American Cancer Society (ACS) and Layer Health, an innovator in AI-driven healthcare technology, have announced a multi-year collaboration aimed at accelerating cancer research. This partnership will leverage large language models (LLMs) to streamline the extraction of vital clinical data from patient medical records.
- This collaboration builds upon a successful pilot program that focused on breast cancer patients. The pilot demonstrated the platform's
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