London-based healthtech startup Abtrace raises £2.1M to transform the detection and treatment of chronic and long-term conditions using machine learning
Abtrace , a London, UK-based healthtech startup, announced today it has raised £2.1 million in seed funding to transform how [...]
MDIC Launches Digital Health Initiative
MDIC Launches Digital Health Initiative Published Date: August 26, 2021 ARLINGTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #IVD –The Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC) [...]
2bPrecise acquired from Allscripts by AccessDX
AccessDX Holdings, which develops an array of lab diagnostics and decision support tools, announced this week that it has acquired [...]
Mayo Clinic, Verily to Build Advanced Clinical Decision Support to Enhance Care
Mayo Clinic and Verily , an Alphabet company founded at the convergence of health care, data science and technology, today [...]
Healthcare Bluebook Launches Prescription Drug Quality and Cost Navigation
NASHVILLE, Tenn. , Aug. 26, Healthcare Bluebook, the industry leader in healthcare quality and price digital navigation, today announced the [...]
15 Innovative AI Companies Driving Exponential Shifts In Their Respective Sectors
Artificial intelligence (AI) is not new, but it is revolutionizing the world. Paired with emerging technologies, the applications for AI [...]
Smile CDR Finalizes 20 US Payers’ Compliance With CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule
TORONTO, August 24, 2021 (Newswire.com) - Smile CDR, a leading health data storage and integration company, today announced the successful [...]
Population Health Management?
One of the frequently heard phrases of the moment is population health management – but what is it and does [...]
Amplifying the patient voice for better engagement, recruitment and retention
Everyone is familiar with the phrase ‘patient-centricity’ but, where it might once have been seen as a ‘checkbox exercise’, it [...]
FOCUS-Biogen provides free Aduhelm as U.S. clinics await Medicare payment
By Deena Beasley Reuters Aug 30 (Reuters) - Biogen Inc is providing its controversial and expensive new Alzheimer's drug free [...]
Why Can’t Big Tech Crack the Health Care Code? – Talking Healthcare Technology
“The classic Big Tech arrangement for healthcare is I, important leader at health-tech company X, understand that healthcare needs improvement [...]
What Is Fueling Investor Excitement In Healthtech?
What Is Fueling Investor Excitement In Healthtech? With the pandemic taking its toll globally, the health care sector has made [...]
Why Healthcare Orgs Need to Take a Practice-Centered Approach to IT
Over the past year, we’ve all witnessed the dramatic impact that healthcare IT had on both the selfless clinicians who [...]
New Cytel Blog on Causal Inference and RWD in Decision Making
A new Cytel blog post discusses using real world data (RWD) to bypass phase IV clinical trials. In contrast to [...]
ICER to Evaluate Value and Efficacy of Five COVID-19 Treatments
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) announced it will carry out assessments for five drugs used to treat [...]
Former FDA Officials Discuss the Far-Reaching Effects of RWD During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Amy Abernethy, former deputy principal commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), discussed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic [...]
Diabetes Drug Priced at $1349 per Month Leads to Weight Loss, Prompting Payer Coverage Debates
Wegovy, a type 2 diabetes drug that costs $1349 per month, can lead to weight loss. This side effect is [...]
Aetion Researchers Discuss ICER’s Reassessment of Drugs Receiving Accelerated FDA Approval Using RWE
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) recently published findings from a pilot study that used real world evidence [...]
Register for Upcoming September Webinar on Systematic Literature Reviews
Criterion Edge will host a webinar on September 1st at 11:00 AM PST on conducting an effective literature review. Systematic [...]
xCures VP Discusses Leveraging RWD Registries to Provide Personalized Care to Oncology Patients
Vice President of Research Partnerships at xCures Max Goldstein discusses using real world data (RWD) to better understand which patients [...]
Cost-Effective Insulin Glargine Biosimilar Could Upend Reference Diabetes Drug; McKinsey Estimates Biosimilar Market Will Hit $30 Billion by 2025
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Semglee, an insulin glargine biosimilar product. Compared to reference drug Lantus, the [...]
UNC Cancer Hospital Combines RWD and Patient-Centered Care to Identify Unvaccinated Patients
A team of healthcare professionals at the University of North Carolina’s NC Cancer Hospital used real world data (RWD) derived [...]
Geisinger Launches AI-Powered Tool for Patients to Manage Healthcare Costs, Reports Monthly Savings of $52 per Patient
Geisinger has partnered with PayZen to offer patients an out-of-pocket payment tool. Payment plans, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), include [...]
Takeda, CSL hereditary angioedema meds need steep discounts following real-world evidence review, ICER says
Takeda, CSL hereditary angioedema meds need steep discounts following real-world evidence review, ICER says fkansteiner Tue, 08/24/2021 - 14:26 Read [...]
Anatara’s IBS-D clinical trial to leverage Microba Life Sciences’ precision microbiome analysis
Precision microbiome science company, Microba Life Sciences , will work with Anatara Life Sciences (ASX:ANR) to complete microbiome analysis for [...]