News from the healthcare data industry
A growing — and aging — population, combined with advances in early detection and treatment, pushed the number of cancer survivors to new heights this year. More than 18 million Americans with a history of cancer, two-thirds of them over the age of 65 years, were living in the U.S….
SALT LAKE CITY, June 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Myriad Genetics, Inc., (NASDAQ: MYGN), a leader in genetic testing and precision medicine, today announced a partnership with Epic, the industry leading healthcare software company, to integrate Myriad’s full line of genetic tests with Epic’s expansive network of 600,000 physicians and more…
June 23, 2022 Automated system will mean faster results, fewer delays and improved patient outcomes The Tiger Institute for Health Innovation, which provides the technology for University of Missouri Health Care’s electronic health record (EHR), and Foundation Medicine, a pioneer in molecular profiling for cancer, have launched a fully automated genomic testing…
The speed of Covid-19 vaccine trials should inspire the pharmaceutical and medical device industries to accelerate its clinical testing, according to Shweta Maniar, Google Cloud’s director for healthcare and life sciences. She argued that harnessing real-world data will make faster clinical trials achievable for all therapeutics and devices, possibly even…
New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center appointed Selwyn Vickers, MD, its new president and CEO June 27. Dr. Vickers will transition into the role in September, as Craig Thompson, MD, steps down. He joins the center from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he currently serves as senior vice…
Epic plans to join the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, which would connect nearly 2,000 hospitals and 45,000 clinics that use the company’s medical records software to take part in the nationwide data-sharing framework. The EHR vendor also announced Thursday that it intends to apply to be an inaugural Qualified Health Information…
BELLEVUE, Wash., June 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Truveta today announced a strategic collaboration with Pfizer to deliver new safety insights on a continuous basis, using verifiable real-world data at scale. Truveta will provide Pfizer with an unprecedented data platform for research. The data collected by Truveta are always flowing,…
BURLINGTON, N.C., June 21, 2022 — Labcorp® (NYSE: LH), a leading global life sciences company, today announced a new collaboration with HealthVerity, Inc., the leader in Identity, Privacy, Governance, and Exchange (IPGE) for real-world data (RWD), that will expand Labcorp’s comprehensive, end-to-end drug development and clinical trial programs. HealthVerity’s IPGE platform,…
Thomas Bartiromo was named vice president and chief technology officer of West Reading, Pa.-based Tower Health. In his new role, Mr. Bartiromo will be responsible for the health system’s service desk, field services, media services, client systems, voice system engineering, network engineering and systems engineering, according to a June 8 press release. …
After completing 6 modules in a digital therapeutic for insomnia, most users met criteria for meaningful treatment response and 40% met criteria for remission. Real-world data showed that cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) delivered via a digital therapeutic was effective, according to a study published in Behaviour Research and Therapy. While data…