The agency has signaled its apparent change of heart with speeches, policy guidance, and now with two public-private partnerships: the recent expansion of its agreement with Flatiron Health, and a brand new collaboration with COTA Healthcare. The Flatiron collaboration initially focused on patients being treated with immunotherapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer; the new work concerns “the use of RWE in regulatory decision-making, including characterization of data quality, validation of reliable real-world clinical endpoints, collaboration on new analytic methodologies, and exploration of innovative applications such as real-world control arms.” The COTA collaboration will focus on breast cancer patients and treatment options.
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Attending #ASCO19 5/31-6/4? Stop by Booth #2063 to learn how COTA organizes fragmented, often hidden data from the real world to provide a clear view of cancer or schedule a demo with us here: meetus@cotahealthcare.comFind more details about the attending here.
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COTA, Inc., a leading precision medicine technology company that uses real-world evidence to bring clarity to cancer care, today announced it has signed a two-year Research Collaboration Agreement (RCA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Information Exchange and Data Transformation (INFORMED) Program, the Agency's data science and technology incubator supporting regulatory science research. This RCA will establish a study protocol with an initial focus on breast cancer, and will provide the FDA with information on the evolving treatment landscape, including insight on treatment variation within defined subpopulations of patients with the disease. As the project advances, the research may expand to other cancer types and explore disease characteristics, treatment patterns, and patient outcomes for the broader application of precision medicine.
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Boston, MA, April 2019 Boston Millennia Partners IV is pleased to announce its investment in Forefront Telecare, Inc. as part of a $15 million growth equity round. Forefront is a leading provider of behavioral services via Telehealth to vulnerable populations across the country. With a focus on high acuity psychiatric patients in rural markets, Forefront offers services to hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and clinics that have limited access to behavioral health practitioners. The solution consists of an extensive provider network, a modern video conferencing platform, and scalable in-house billing. The company currently serves over 175 customers and will be relocating headquarters to New Jersey.
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AONE provides nurse leader education programs for executives, directors, managers and clinical leaders. Topics range from health care finance, CENP and CNML review courses, shared governance and emerging leader competencies. AONE's annual meeting has over 50 concurrent sessions as well as multiple nationally known keynote speakers. Continuing education credits is available for most AONE programs.
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Health Decisions, Inc., the full-service clinical research organization (CRO) of choice for forward-looking biopharma and medical device companies and a leader in women’s health and diagnostics studies, has appointed Sheila Kiss as Head of European Clinical Operations. With more than 35 years’ experience in Clinical Operations and Project Management, Kiss will support Health Decisions’ dedicated Clinical Operations Team to execute research in Women’s Health and In Vitro Diagnostic clinical development.
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Susan Katz Sliski, DNP, RN, CCM, FAAOHN has been named the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for MedAptus, Inc. In her role, Dr. Katz Sliski will be working closely with the product management team to promote and improve all MedAptus products, with a special focus on ASSIGN for Nurses, the company’s flagship patient assignment software for nurses. In her most recent role prior to joining MedAptus, Dr. Katz Sliski was leading REDESIGN initiatives within healthcare organizations to improve patient and provider experiences, drive organizational effectiveness and decrease costs.
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It’s that time of year again! As we get ready for all that HIMSS has to offer and learn about exciting opportunities in healthcare, it’s important to manage expectations around what is going to be accomplished at the conference. It’s no surprise that HIMSS continues to get bigger and bigger every year, but many of the same things are still being discussed - Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, data security and improving efficiencies, to name a few.
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“This is one more indication of our commitment towards providing the very best charge management solutions in healthcare,” said Eugene Schneider, MedAptus president and CEO. “Whether it’s for professionals, facilities or even infusion coding services, our charge capture, management and reconciliation processes are consistently finding new sources of revenue for our customers. That’s extremely important as hospitals and other entities continue to tighten belts in this very challenging healthcare environment.”
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