Transcarent appoints Dr. Randy Hawkins as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and will report to Transcarent Chief Executive Officer, Glen Tullman. As CMO, Dr. Hawkins will oversee the organization’s clinical quality initiatives and support the organization’s health analytics strategy. Swift Medical has appointed Brian Litten as its new Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Litten brings decades of healthcare leadership experience across health plans, provider organizations, regulatory
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Oncology Technology Solutions, Services Impacting Patients and Providers
Accelerating Clinical Trials Through AI-Enabled Precision Oncology
The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Statistics 2023 report highlighted a few major accomplishments within oncology, such as decreased cancer mortality rates and increased trial diversity. However, there is still much work to be done. Especially with the multiple types of new and ongoing challenges clinicians and staff members are facing - such as high turnover rates, decreased budgets and increased feelings of burnout - taking the necessary steps to enhance clinical trial procedures is crucial
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Accenture: Data Collaboratives Hold Great Promise for Accelerated Healthcare Progress and Precision Medicine
What You Should Know: - Accenture published Fast-Forwarding Healthcare through Data Collaboratives Report to discover how best health ecosystem players access data to fast-forward healthcare. - Data generated by technical and scientific advances, like connected health devices, consumer health and medical-grade digital apps, individual multi-omics profiling data and the move to cloud storage, holds great promise for accelerated healthcare progress and precision medicine, and data
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Protai Raises $20M to Build an Oncology Drug Discovery Pipeline
What You Should Know: - Protai, a proteomics and AI-powered drug discovery startup revolutionizing the way new drugs are discovered, today announced a $12 million extension of its seed round, bringing the total amount to $20M. - The round includes existing investors Grove Ventures and Pitango Healthcare and was joined by Copenhagen-based Maj Invest Equity Fund. The additional funding will be used to build Protai’s oncology drug discovery pipeline, expand data
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Drug Development: Allucent Expands Use of Medidata Clinical Cloud
What You Should Know: - Medidata announced that Allucent, a contract research organization (CRO) bringing innovation to biopharma companies, is expanding the global use of Medidata’s Clinical Cloud to advance its end-to-end clinical trial operations offering. - The agreement expands Allucent’s existing utilization of Medidata technologies. These include Rave EDC, eCOA, RTSM,
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COTA and GTC Partner to Improve Precision Oncology
What You Should Know: - COTA, Inc., an oncology real-world data and analytics company, today announced a new partnership with Genomic Testing Cooperative (GTC), a molecular testing company. - GTC has a very innovative approach to genetic testing, providing molecular information which is critical to determining accurate diagnoses and determining the most appropriate treatment. GTC's tissue and liquid-biopsy testing leverages DNA and RNA sequencing, which is very rare in the
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Tempus, Pfizer Partner to Advance Oncology Therapeutic Development
What You Should Know: - Today, the AI-powered genetic testing and precision medicine company Tempus announced that it has signed a significant strategic agreement with Pfizer to more precisely gather insights that will inform novel drug discovery and development in oncology. - Through this collaboration, Pfizer has access to Tempus’ AI-enabled platform and its library of de-identified, multimodal data to uncover insights that will power therapeutic development in oncology. -
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Tempus Forms Multi-omics Collaboration With Actuate Therapeutics
What You Should Know: - Tempus, the $10B artificial intelligence and precision medicine company, announced their first multi-omics collaboration with Actuate Therapeutics, in which datasets of different omic groups – genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, and others are combined during analysis to improve research and enable new discoveries, including ones that would have been missed with a single method alone. - This multi-omics approach is being used by Actuate Therapeutics in support
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Addressing the Diversity Challenge in Clinical Research Through Patient Advocacy
Diversity is paramount to the success of clinical research, both ethically and scientifically. Without adequate representation of racial and ethnic minorities, investigators lack an understanding of the safety and efficacy of novel treatments within those groups. From a scientific standpoint, an incomplete dataset hinders drug delivery and the development of breakthrough therapies – but from an ethical standpoint, underrepresentation creates a barrier to treatment options for populations that
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Vysioneer & Pfizer Partner on AI-Powered Oncology Clinical Trials
What You Should Know: - Vysioneer, a provider of applied AI for Oncology, today announced a data-sharing agreement with Pfizer, a global leader in pharmaceuticals. The agreement aims to lay the foundation for the application of AI in oncology clinical trials. As part of the agreement, Vysioneer gains access to one of Pfizer's oncology clinical trial datasets to apply Vysioneer's advanced machine-learning techniques to facilitate the drug efficacy assessment process, thereby allowing Pfizer
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