Aster Insights, a provider of technology-enabled data and analytics solutions for oncology discovery, has announced that The University of Kansas Cancer Center will join its Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN). The KU Cancer Center is the latest NCI-designated cancer center to join ORIEN, which...
Inbound Health, a company that enables health systems and health plans to offer hospital-at-home and skilled-nursing-at-home programs, has announced that it is expanding its services to include general surgery, including orthopedics, bariatrics, and hernia. Inbound Health spun out of its parent company, Allina Health, in October...
Last year, McKesson Ventures joined Merck, Microsoft, the Global Health Innovation Fund, Northland Ventures, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology to create the Merck Digital Sciences Studio. The studio was inspired by the work of Geof Hannigan, a computational biologist at Merck. In his work,...
Aster Insights has announced its participation as a research partner at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting June 2-6, 2023, in Chicago. An oral presentation and three posters will be presented at this year’s ASCO meeting, utilizing the lifetime patient-consented longitudinal clinicogenomic...
Evidation and Myovant Sciences conducted a survey about the lived experiences of people with endometriosis and/or uterine fibroids. The results of that survey show the magnitude of the negative impacts these conditions have on employee and student experiences and quality of life and indicate a...
Results from the 12-month, multicenter, observational study, WATCH-PD, were recently published in the journal Nature. The researchers found significant associations between digital biomarkers with a wearable device and conventional clinical scoring methods used in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Working with Clinical Ink to gather the real-world...
Replica Analytics, an Aetion company, is partnering with data privacy software solutions developer Private AI. The partnership is a response to an urgent need for a privacy-preserving solution in healthcare and aims to provide a comprehensive solution for healthcare’s data privacy and security challenges. Replica Analytics’...
Aster Insights has announced the appointment of Dr. Anand Shah as chief executive officer, effective immediately. He succeeds Jim Gabriele, who has stepped down from his position. Gabriele and Shah have collaborated closely on a number of strategic, operational, and business development initiatives over the...
Komodo Health has recently launched MapEnhance, a feature that leverages a network of specialty data partners connecting into the company’s platform. MapEnhance builds on Komodo’s Healthcare Map, which it characterizes as a de-identified data set on 330 million patients in the United States, by combining it...
Twist Bioscience Corporation, a company that offers high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, along with Aster Insights, has announced the availability of the AsterExome panel, which can simultaneously enable whole exome sequencing (WES) with additional coverage for target regions known to contain 620 genes...