The digital therapeutics company is rolling out its remote monitoring solution — developed with Brigham and Women's Hospital — across the country, which can help hospitals rapidly implement hospital-at-home programs. The announcement comes soon after CMS launched a program enabling health systems to provide hospital-level care at home for more than 60 conditions.
Bodyport, a startup developing a scale intended to detect early signs of cardiovascular disease, raised $11.2 million in series A funding. The San Francisco-based company also struck a partnership with Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
The company was the site of a large outbreak of the disease linked to a February management meeting. Employees who contracted and recovered from Covid-19, and those who had contact with them, are eligible to provide samples, which will be used to generate de-identified data.
The study estimated 68.2 percent of errors generated by MedAware’s system would not have been detected by existing clinical decision support systems.
The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that 19 of 93 cancer drugs that won accelerated approval over 25 years improved overall survival, while others only showed improvements on other surrogate endpoints.
Software company Aetion said Wednesday that the regulatory agency and hospital would expand the real-world evidence partnership they announced last year.
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These two announcements come after Deborah DiSanzo left her role as IBM Watson Health general manager last year.
Rob and Karen Hale have given $50 million to both Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Rob serves as CEO of Granite Telecommunications, but the couple has ties to both hospitals.
Partners Innovation Fund II will invest in 15-20 companies, according to Roger Kitterman, Vice President of Partners Innovation. It will be particularly aggressive in gene therapy.
Brigham and Women’s hospital has also launched a digital innovation hub called iHub that works with clinicians, researchers, and staff to accelerate and commercialize digital health ideas.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers analyzed the effect of a web-based tool that uses patient medical records to enhance communication during the patient handoff.
"I’m not sure we learned something new from the meta-analysis, but it does give confidence that indeed there’s a good margin of safety and the risks are minimal.”
Digital health can enhance the patient experience in a clinical trial but it's a learning process for patients and clinical trial designers.
The healthcare industry needs to start giving women the information and leadership they need and deserve.
Sephen Pasceri, 55, shot and killed cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Michael Davidson on Jan. 20, leaving the medical community in total shock, especially at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. It became clear relatively soon that Pasceri’s reasoning for killing Davidson was because he was convinced that a drug prescribed to his mother following her surgery […]