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U.S. Sees Dramatic Drop in Routine Testing Amid Pandemic
A new report from Komodo Health shows that diagnostic testing for cancer and other conditions has declined across the U.S. since mid-March following regional lockdowns for the COVID-19 pandemic. Komodo Health analyzed billing records of 320 million patients from March 19 through April 20 and found that cervical...
GRAIL to Participate in BofA Securities 2020 Health Care Conference
GRAIL has announced that two of its executives will be speaking at the BofA Securities 2020 Health Care Conference. Hans Bishop, Chief Executive Officer; and Joshua Ofman, MD, MSHS, Chief Medical Officer and External Affairs, will provide an overview of the company at the virtual conference, which will take place...
Vivante Health Joins Accolade Trusted Supplier Program
Vivante Health, a provider of digital medicine tools for digestive health and disease, has joined the Accolade Partner Ecosystem as part of the company’s Trusted Supplier Program. GIThrive is Vivante’s digital gut health platform. Using proprietary algorithms and data from each user’s symptom and food log, GIThrive...
COVID-19: The Critical Role of Real-World Evidence Made Real
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the HLTH Matters Blog Series will be interviewing experts from across the health ecosystem to bring timely facts and updates to the HLTH community. A post written by Aetion CEO Carolyn Magill details the role of real-world evidence in the fight against coronavirus. “I’m certain...
Cancer screenings plunge more than 90% due to COVID-19
Electronic health record software provider Epic released data indicating that appointments for cervix, colon, and breast cancer screenings have dropped between 86 percent and 94 percent compared to average volumes in the three years before the confirmation of the first COVID-19 case in the U.S. At the end of April,...
Aetion Urges FDA To Establish Cloud-Based RWE Platform
Aetion has issued a call for the FDA to implement a cloud-based real-world evidence (RWE) platform with robust data governance so that users can do data queries, archiving, access, and aggregation. Such a system, the company says, could help avoid unnecessary data duplication and support concurrent reviews by global...
GRAIL Announces $390 Million Series D Financing
GRAIL announced that it has completed a $390 million Series D financing round. New investors including Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), and two undisclosed investors joined existing backers including Illumina in this round of funding....
With contact tracing, don’t let perceptions of big tech be the enemy of the greater good
Experts say the U.S. will need about 300,000 human tracers to chart and break ongoing expansion of the coronavirus pandemic, but we currently only have between 8,000 and 14,000. In a recent Rock Health post, the firm recommends combining a surge in human tracers, digital technologies to capture and share accurate and...
Novartis receives CHMP positive opinion for Enerzair® Breezehaler® (QVM149), a potential first-in-class inhaled LABA/LAMA/ICS combination for uncontrolled asthma
Novartis has announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion recommending the approval of its Enerzair® Breezehaler® as a maintenance treatment of asthma in adult patients not adequately controlled with currently recommended...
‘The world will never be the same’: Healthcare executives say telehealth is here to stay beyond the coronavirus
One benefit of the coronavirus pandemic is the increasing usage of telehealth. The virus has forced an end to many non-urgent medical visits, and doctors are connecting with COVID and non-COVID patients virtually. According to Dr. Roy Schoenberg, CEO of telehealth company Amwell, telehealth has gone from a...
Press Releases
Aetion and Cegedim Health Data announce new partnership to power real-world evidence research in Europe
Aetion and Cegedim Health Data announced a new partnership to integrate Cegedim’s European real-world data (RWD) platform, THIN, into the Aetion Evidence Platform. The new collaboration will enable Aetion’s clients, including top biopharma companies, leading payers,...
Evidation Raises $45 Million Series D, Hires CCO To Accelerate Commercial Momentum and Expand Into Virtual Health
Evidation Health has announced the close of a $45 million Series D funding round to power the expansion of its privacy-first, direct-to-person research platform, Achievement, to include virtual health. The company will use the new capital to build upon its existing...
New Survey Reveals Patients Have Been Overwhelmingly Satisfied with Virtual Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Want Greater Access to it in the Future
Kyruus recently surveyed 1,000 patients about their virtual care experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings reveal that nearly three-quarters of the respondents engaged in their first telemedicine experience ever during the initial surge of COVID-19 cases...
Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network Expands Digital Health Options for Pregnant Patients with Babyscripts and Xealth
The Froedtert & MCW health network has expanded its digital health offerings to pregnant patients through a new integration between virtual obstetrical care platform Babyscripts and Xealth, a company that enables digital health at scale. This clinical solution is...
The Washington Post Names Aledade a 2020 Top Washington-Area Workplace
Aledade has been named one of The Washington Post’s 2020 Top Workplaces in the Washington, D.C., area. Selection is based solely on employee feedback gathered through an anonymous survey administered by research partner Energage, LLC, which measured several aspects of...