Australia-based not-for-profit organisation Crohn’s Colitis Cure (CCCure) has recently launched subscription-based access to its registry of data on patients dealing with inflammatory bowel diseases.
The IBD-focused charity claims to have one of the world's largest databases of real-time patient-reported and clinical data on IBD, including Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and IBD-undetermined...
Publicly listed Daewoong Pharmaceutical has recently unveiled its AI-driven drug development system, powered by a database of hundreds of millions of pre-processed compounds.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Over the past two years, researchers of the Seoul-based pharma giant have sought to solve perennial issues in the development of novel drugs, particularly high cost and low efficiency.
Serving as the...
Israel-based Sheba Medical Centre and the Swedish Karolinska University Hospital will work together in digital health, with the aim of bridging the gap between healthcare, research and innovation.
WHY IT MATTERS
Developing strategic partnerships between international hospitals is seen as a key area in order to combine knowledge and skill in bringing new solutions in digital healthcare that will...
Google’s $2 billion acquisition of Fitbit last month has been met with concern from privacy advocates worried about how the tech giant will use personal fitness data. This reaction prompted the tech giant to clarify that the acquisition is "about devices, not data."
The deal has brought to light a larger issue that we all seem to gloss over: Every day, millions of people publicly share seemingly...
The smart home of the future is one dominated by sensors, transmitters and intelligent data analyses that work to improve the lives of those dwelling within. Increase the scale by a degree of magnitude and you have smart communities or cities: an aggregated body of information and infrastructure systems that aims to deliver services efficiently and – if implemented carefully – address issues of...
Google Maps will be receiving an update this week that shows users the prevalence of COVID-19 cases in an area, the tech company announced yesterday in a blog post.
Through an option selected within the application, Maps will display a color-coded overlay communicating seven-day averages of new cases per 100,000 in that area, as well as a general indication of whether or not local incidence is...
COVID-19 may not be the first pandemic the world has faced, but the virus' challenge comes amidst widespread skepticism of longstanding public health institutions. Government-led responses to outbreaks have varied from country to country, and incongruent messaging between political leaders, health agencies and other sources of information have fueled varying levels of concern and distrust among...
By pulling anonymized, publicly available location data from mobile devices, researchers have found that the U.S. population generally complied with stay-at-home orders issued by state officials this spring.
The analysis, published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), is the latest to use personal devices and the data they generate to describe behaviors relevant to public...
Real-world evidence (RWE) technology startup Aetion has extended last year's $63 million Series B with a new $19 million raise. The funds come as strategic investments from Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JJDC, EDBI and Greenspring Associates, all three of which are new supporters of the company.
WHAT IT DOES
Founded in 2013, the company's platform provides insights from RWE to decision-makers...
U.S. consumers want to understand how and why their personal health data is being used by organizations, and may change their data sharing behaviors if they believe the information is being used to improve health outcomes for themselves or others, according to recent survey from health data intelligence firm W2O.
Conducted in two 1,000-person waves in September 2019 and May 2020, the poll...
