Pfizer
Also: The pharma industry continues to use digital technologies for R&D and diabetes management.
Also: Doctor On Demand brings on three new executives; SnapMD appoints new chief revenue officer.
Pfizer has announced the three winning startups it has selected to participate in the second year of Pfizer Healthcare Hub: London, a foster program for innovative startups able to demonstrate clear benefits to patients or clinicians.
Pharma companies are increasingly embracing the use of wearables and other connected devices to streamline and improve data collection in clinical trials.
Pfizer announced today that it is receiving applications for its Pfizer Healthcare Hub: London competitive grant.
NYC-based pharma company Pfizer currently has 15 apps in the US iOS app store, ranging from a chapstick companion app to an app for people with kidney cancer.
When Apple first announced ResearchKit, it was met with a fair amount of skepticism about whether the data collected via smartphones would be robust enough to be useful.
According to an SEC filing, mail-order personal genome service and research company 23andMe has raised $79 million, in a round the company hopes will top out at $150 million.
Pfizer Head of Clinical Innovation Craig Lipset
In 2011, Pfizer announced a novel clinical trial that would be fully remote, with every aspect of the trial being handled either online, over the phone, or by mail.