Century Health, a pioneer in applying AI to real-world data to accelerate research, and Nira Medical, a national leader in delivering neurological care, announced a partnership to curate data from more than 3,000 patients with multiple sclerosis to advance the understanding of the disease and treatment outcomes. Based on data from Nira Medical’s network of clinics, Century Health’s AI platform will create structured datasets that will be analyzed in partnership with life sciences companies to accelerate research into MS treatment and improve patient outcomes.
While electronic health records (EHRs) hold immense potential for accelerating research and improving patient care, much of their data remains inaccessible and difficult to analyze. An estimated 80 percent of data is unstructured, often locked away in siloed systems. With access to rich information about patient care that structured data often misses, researchers can answer more detailed and complex questions to generate new insights on care and treatment.
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) platforms have shown promise in unlocking this data’s full potential, by structuring and abstracting data in a way that would be almost impossible for human practitioners to do at scale.
Century Health’s HIPAA-compliant and SOC 2-certified AI platform will curate and enrich both retrospective and prospective EHR data. Reflecting their shared commitment to the highest standards of patient privacy and data security, Century Health and Nira Medical adhere to strict protocols to ensure data is de-identified in accordance with HIPAA guidelines, including removal of all patient-identifiable information. By leveraging the curated datasets, Nira Medical will be able to develop insights into the critical elements of treating MS patients, such as disease subtype, treatment history, disease progression, and relapse rate.
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“This partnership with Century Health enables us to efficiently transform raw, unstructured data into actionable insights, at a time when real-world evidence is increasingly important for driving innovation and improving patient outcomes,” said Rebekah Foster, Head of Data at Nira Medical. “The ability to advance treatments for our patients – especially those living with a serious, chronic disease that impacts millions globally – supports our mission of providing increased access to effective care for neurological disorders.”
Data management can be a difficult task, especially in a clinical setting where staff are focused on patient care more than data entry and abstraction. Century Health’s technology automates and accelerates data cleaning and processing tasks to allow researchers to conduct immediate analyses. Defining patient cohorts supports answering precise questions about patients and treatment outcomes, while maintaining transparency into data lineage.
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“Using AI to unlock previously inaccessible patient data is not only accelerating the development of new treatments, it’s helping us generate insights for patients that have been historically underrepresented in clinical research,” said Vish Srivastava, Co-Founder & CEO at Century Health. “We’re thrilled to partner with Nira Medical to accelerate data curation and enrichment, with the goal that every patient’s journey can contribute to advancing care for the entire community.”
The partnership will start in multiple sclerosis due to the large patient population in Nira Medical’s network, along with the large number of therapies available for analysis. This rich longitudinal dataset will enable life sciences companies to answer novel research questions to accelerate drug development, increase access to new treatments, and improve patient outcomes.
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Source – prnewswire
