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The Evolution of Patient-Centered Clinical Trial Design
Clinical trial design will be one of the topics discussed at the upcoming INVEST Digital Health conference in Dallas on October 26. THREAD Clinical Trial Design Director Noah Goodson highlighted some of the milestones the sector has seen in recent years.
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Google Cloud exec: Real-world data could eliminate the need for placebos in clinical trials
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 eliminating the need to recruit a placebo arm.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Thread, AWS partner on next-gen tech for clinical trials
The partners aim to make decentralized clinical trials more efficient and less expensive through greater use of AI and machine learning.
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Private equity companies acquire virtual research firm Thread
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, Thread said it would use the investment – from JLL Partners and Water Street Healthcare Partners – to accelerate the expansion of its service offering globally.
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MedCity CONVERGE: An oncology innovation conference where health IT and biotech intersect
The Philadelphia event from July 11-12 highlights the most compelling topics in healthcare from breaking down the data silos in cancer research, how to scale precision medicine, the reimbursement hurdles for genetic testing, AI applications and investment trends in oncology and precision medicine.