CONTEXT: We normally don’t highlight commercial announcements, but we think this is one to watch in the world of RWR and RWD. The scale of the investment, the application of the technology and the partners already lined up mean this is a serious player in the rapidly expanding word of virtual health. Tapping into the increasingly reliable wearable health data generated by patients as part of an overall dataset will become as normal as a health professional asking “how are you feeling today?” In fact, they won’t need to bother, just download their data and see for yourself……
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1. “Evidation Health, a San Mateo, California-based health analytics data company, landed $153 million in a Series E funding round led by OMERS Growth Equity and Kaiser Permanente Group Trust.”
2. “WHAT IT DOES. Evidation is able to combine real-world patient data from multiple sources, including Apple Health, Fitbit, Epic and Dexcom and in turn assess care or specific intervention from its payer, pharma and health systems clients.”
3. “The company’s app and platform, named Achievement, is positioned as a research tool that allows patients to add their real-world health data for studies.”
4. “Using real-world data for research has become a hot topic in digital health.”
5. “Flatiron Health, which was acquired by Roche for $1.8 billion, created an oncology EHR that used real-world data for research.”
Source URL: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/evidation-health-lands-153m-expand-real-live-data-platform