real-world data

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By  Jessica Hagen 04:44 pm August 21, 2023
Health technology company PicnicHealth announced it is moving into the oncology space and teaming up with AstraZeneca to build a registry to generate real-world data on breast cancer.  The company says it will work with people living with cancer to collect and structure their medical records data to advance oncology research using robust datasets.   Additionally, the California-based company...
A doctor looking at data on a tablet with a patient and her family member.
By  Emily Olsen 12:18 pm January 5, 2023
Real-world data startup Crescendo Health launched Thursday with $3.4 million from Define Ventures and other investors.  WHAT IT DOES The startup aims to collect longitudinal data for clinical research, including information from other healthcare encounters that might not be collected when patients choose to participate in a trial.  The company partners with biopharma companies, medical device...
Doctors and hospital administrators discussing data.
By  Emily Olsen 11:35 am November 30, 2022
German health data startup Temedica raised another €25 million in Series B funding led by existing investor MIG Capital and an undisclosed Munich-based family office. The latest influx of capital brings its total Series B raise to €42 million. The company had previously announced it had scooped up €17 million in January 2020.  WHAT THEY DO The Munich-based company offers the Permea real-world...
Researchers in a lab using an iPad.
By  Emily Olsen 01:30 pm September 21, 2022
EHR data company nference on Wednesday launched its real-world evidence generation platform and expanded its existing partnership with the Mayo Clinic.  The platform, dubbed nSights, collects de-identified patient clinical data from academic medical centers, including clinical notes, radiology results, lab tests and electrocardiograms. The company said it will eventually add digital pathology and...
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By  Emily Olsen 01:36 pm August 30, 2022
Connected pillbox maker MedMinder received $35 million through a credit facility with SWK Holdings Corporation and additional investment from Accelmed Partners. The company offers a connected medication dispenser with an interactive screen that alerts polypharmacy patients, seniors and caregivers when it's time to take medications or when a dose is missed. It also provides a service where...
Holmusk, Charité hospital, real-world data, mental health, psychotherapy
By  Anna Engberg 05:41 am December 1, 2021
Charité-University Medicine Berlin has established a new research partnership with the global data science company Holmusk. The strategic collaboration is focused on the collection and analysis of real-world data from psychiatry. As Holmusk declared on 22 November, the initiative aims to improve the understanding of psychiatric diseases through evidence-based analytics. WHY IT MATTERS The COVID-...
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By  Laura Lovett 01:55 pm November 2, 2021
Boston-based provider Mass General Brigham is teaming up with DTx company Better Therapeutics on a real-world data study collaboration focused on diabetes. Specifically, the organizations will be looking at the effectiveness and utilization of Better Therapeutic's prescription digital therapeutic on delivering virtual therapies to patients with Type 2 diabetes. Patients enrolled in the study...
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By  Emma Murphy 09:05 am May 27, 2021
PicnicHealth and Komodo Health are placing an emphasis on real-world evidence research of complex illnesses like multiple sclerosis and hemophilia.  Earlier this week the two companies announced a partnership to use their products jointly to create a deep real-world patient data pool using de-identified data from payers, providers, labs and electronic health records. Specifically, PicnicHealth, a...
The keynote presenter at HIMSS’ Accelerate Health event shares his game plan for how stakeholders can use big data to improve the quality, safety and effectiveness of drug therapies.
By  Mallory Hackett 12:35 pm March 19, 2021
As the world begins to see a light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, healthcare leaders have begun strategizing on how to take the lessons learned and apply them to a post-pandemic environment. “What we really want to be able to do is leverage many of those learnings that we garnered from this experience and really institutionalize those in the health system as we move forward, and how we...
By  Dave Muoio 01:55 pm November 5, 2020
A recently published review of real-world claims data suggests that opioid use disorder patients prescribed Pear Therapeutics' reSET-O digital therapeutic, alongside pharmacotherapy, had fewer clinical encounters and subsequently decreased medical costs over a six-month period. The study was funded by Pear, coauthored by a Pear employee and published in the journal Expert Review of...