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Integral Secures $6.9M to Expand Real-Time Compliance for Life Sciences

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Integral , an innovator in safeguarding privacy and maximizing data quality raises $6.9M in seed funding to protect sensitive health data and provide automated expert certification software that enables health and life sciences companies access to compliant, rich, de-identified data in hours, rather than months.

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Intel, ConsenSys Health combine blockchain and AI for clinical trials management

Healthcare It News

"This limited access to groundbreaking treatments and being part of the system of science to improve treatments for future patients is the other side of the problem." " One of the major reasons clinical trial-matching and recruitment is so slow is that it's largely limited by laws and regulations related to patient privacy.

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Aetion Acquires Synthetic Data Platform Replica Analytics

HIT Consultant

Fortune 50 companies already use Replica’s technology to enable fast and effective access to high utility, synthetic versions of health data across their organizations while meeting regulatory obligations and compliance with privacy laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the U.S.

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Sensitive Data Requires Great Responsibility: The Importance of ‘Privacy and Security by Design’ in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

By taking a minimalist approach to data collection, companies not only reduce the amount of sensitive information at risk but also simplify data management. This approach aligns with the principle of data minimization, a key aspect of privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and HIPAA.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr. What’s unclear is how public policy and regulation can/will meet this moment.

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5 Trends Driving the Future Growth of Digital Health & MedTech

HIT Consultant

“Healthcare is at a crossroads, facing unprecedented pressure and disruption — including affordability challenges, shifting patient expectations, and an increasing deluge of health data,” said Tim Durst, a managing director at Accenture who leads the global medical technology sector in the company’s Life Sciences practice.

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RWE: Supporting Regulatory Submissions with Real-World Evidence

HIT Consultant

Along with advances in the availability and quality of real-world data (RWD) from sources like electronic health records (EHRs) , registries, medical claims and pharmacy data, the Cures Act has been a catalyst for increased emphasis on using RWE in clinical and regulatory decision-making.