As vice president, Joe Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot, intending to accelerate progress in cancer treatments and accessibility, and as president, Biden reignited the Moonshot last year.
Earlier this year, as part of the Moonshot, the Department of Health and Human Services launched CancerX, a public-private partnership effort to boost cancer innovation in the U.S.
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The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) and a suite of digital health and pharma players partnered to launch a toolkit aimed at improving diversity, equity and inclusion in clinical trials.
The resources include a guide to each step of a digital clinical trial, shared definitions of terms like "diversity" and "equity," a list of different digital tools that could be used and the potential benefits...
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) on Monday revealed four toolkits to help healthcare and life science organizations use data from sensors like wearables and remote patient monitoring systems at scale.
The four toolkits are based on resources derived from the society's Sensor Data Integrations project, which includes organizations like Amazon Web Services, Oracle, the Moffitt Cancer Center,...
Artificial intelligence is being used across the healthcare industry with the goal of delivering care more efficiently and improving outcomes for patients. But if health systems and vendors aren't careful, AI has the potential to support biased decision-making and make equities even worse.
"Algorithmic bias really is the application of an algorithm that compounds existing inequity," Sarah Awan,...
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) is teaming up with pharma giants AbbVie, Janssen Research and Development, Novartis, Pfizer and UCB to make nocturnal scratch an endpoint for atopic dermatitis.
Atopic dermatitis, also known as eczema, can lead to nighttime itches and scratching, which impact the quality of a patient's sleep. Recent studies have outlined wearable sensors’ role in helping to...
Google’s $2 billion acquisition of Fitbit last month has been met with concern from privacy advocates worried about how the tech giant will use personal fitness data. This reaction prompted the tech giant to clarify that the acquisition is "about devices, not data."
The deal has brought to light a larger issue that we all seem to gloss over: Every day, millions of people publicly share seemingly...