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Clara Health, Genomenon and BrainBaseline share how they’re improving the clinical trial process

October 2, 2020

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic took over, pharmaceutical companies were on the hunt for solutions to improve the efficiency of drug development — from which molecules to test through all aspects of patient recruitment and the clinical trial process.

Since the pandemic began, those needs have intensified dramatically. Pharmaceutical companies need tools to help them more efficiently identify…

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PF Innovation Challenge finalists chosen from applicant pool across 36 cities; 10 countries

September 29, 2020

MATTER, Three Lakes Foundation and the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation today announced the finalists for the 2020 Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF) Innovation Challenge. Selected from a global pool of nearly 50 submissions, each team submitted a solution that can help improve disease awareness, time to diagnosis or care to benefit people living with PF, their caregivers and healthcare providers.

Next up f…

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Digital transformation at the enterprise level: Humana’s chief digital officer on how the role of insurers is evolving

September 23, 2020

In the future, health insurance plans will be fully tailored to the individual.

That’s the health insurance experience that Heather Cox, Humana’s first chief digital health and analytics officer, is working to create. In her role, Heather focuses on helping Humana reimagine care delivery and provide leading enterprise analytics — with the ultimate goal of creating differentiated experiences at…

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Bringing video games to healthcare: How Akili Interactive’s Matt Omernick fused passions to improve lives

September 18, 2020

If there is an archetype of a typical healthcare entrepreneur, Matt Omernick is not it.

An artist and computer animator by trade, Matt spent 15 years in the games and entertainment industry before a chance social encounter would inspire the founding of Akili Interactive, a prescription digital medicine company that builds clinically-validated cognitive therapeutics that look and feel like vide…

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How CareBand is using wearable technology to automate contact tracing and monitor social distancing compliance

September 16, 2020

As the country shifts to opening more businesses and bringing employees back to the workplace, contact tracing solutions — or solutions that track the interactions of infected individuals — have become increasingly popular and essential to this new way of living. According to Adam Sobol, CEO and founder of MATTER startup CareBand, he realized the importance and demand for these solutions as ear…

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