News from the healthcare data industry
Maia Hightower, MD, MBA, MPH, an internist and accomplished healthcare IT executive, has been named the University of Chicago Medicine’s new Executive Vice President and Chief Digital & Technology Officer effective August 15, 2022. Hightower is CEO and co-founder of Equality AI, a startup that helps clinical teams achieve health equity…
University of California San Diego Health has named Joshua Glandorf as CIO. Before being named CIO, Mr. Glandorf served the San Diego-based healthcare system as the senior director of information services. Prior to Mr. Glandorf’s time at UC San Diego Health, he was the director of analytics at Stanford Children’s in Palo…
Course Focuses on Integrating the Use of TriNetX with Biomedical Informatics Curriculum CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — TriNetX, LLC partnered with The University of Texas Medical Branch (“UTMB”) on a new research and analytics course titled: Biomedical Informatics: Applied Investigation and Analysis in Health Outcomes Research. The course aims to provide theoretical and practical experience…
August 10, 2022 04:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pear Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PEAR), the leader in developing and commercializing software-based medicines called prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs), today announced the publication of new results from a health economic analysis of real-world data to evaluate healthcare resource utilization, associated costs and insomnia…
By Elenee ArgentinisAug. 10, 2022Reprints 1 My grandmother was diagnosed with dementia in the early 2000s. We started taking it seriously when she began letting strangers into her Brooklyn brownstone. From there, her behavior quickly deteriorated. She would try to catch her excrement when using the bathroom because she believed it…
August 10, 2022 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Saama Technologies, LLC. (“Saama”) today announced a multi-year agreement with Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, to build and operationalize a new clinical data layer leveraging Saama’s Life Science Analytics Cloud (LSAC) to strengthen Merck’s clinical development capabilities and expedite…
By Elenee Argentinis Aug. 10, 2022 My grandmother was diagnosed with dementia in the early 2000s. We started taking it seriously when she began letting strangers into her Brooklyn brownstone. From there, her behavior quickly deteriorated. She would try to catch her excrement when using the bathroom because she believed it…
(SACRAMENTO) Yauheni Solad has been selected as the first Chief Medical Information Officer for Digital Health and Vice President of Innovation at UC Davis Health. He joined the organization earlier in August and, in this key role, he will serve as a champion of digital innovation and transformation across inpatient…
The ongoing real-world Prospective Clinicogenomic (PCG) Study compares the clinical actionability of both tissue- and blood-based comprehensive genomic profiling to limited tissue testing in this patient population August 08, 2022 07:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Foundation Medicine, Inc., Flatiron Health, and Genentech, members of the…
August 08, 2022 06:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time PALO ALTO, Calif., & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Guardant Health Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, and Blueprint Medicines Corporation (Nasdaq: BPMC) announced today they are presenting new data demonstrating that the EGFR C797X mutation is the most common resistance mechanism to…