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Revolutionizing Healthcare Data Management: Google Cloud + Patientory

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, technology has become an indispensable tool for improving patient outcomes, enhancing care delivery, and reducing costs. Patientory, a leading innovator in the field, is at the forefront of this transformation with its groundbreaking blockchain-powered solutions.

Patientory offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to revolutionize healthcare data management. At the heart of its offerings is the Neith Analytics dashboard, a powerful tool that integrates with major electronic health record (EHR) systems, such as Epic, Cerner, and Allscripts. The Neith dashboard facilitates population health data management by providing secure access to patient data analytics residing on the Patientory health information exchange blockchain network.

Strategic partnerships that leverage the strengths of diverse platforms can create unprecedented opportunities in healthcare technology. A prime example of this is the recent collaboration between Patientory, a leading player in blockchain-based health data management, and Google MedLM, an advanced medical language model. This partnership promises to transform the way pharmaceutical companies recruit patients for clinical trials and submit proposals to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Through Google Cloud for startup’s funding and resources, Patientory is able to ramp up to meet pharmaceutical companies’ top challenges.

Bridging the Gap in Patient Recruitment

Patient recruitment has long been a bottleneck in clinical trials. Traditional recruitment methods are often slow, inefficient, and costly, delaying critical research and the delivery of new therapies to market. This is where Patientory’s innovative health data management solutions come into play. By utilizing blockchain technology, Patientory provides a secure and decentralized platform for storing and managing patient health records.

Google MedLM, on the other hand, is a powerful AI-driven language model specifically designed for medical applications. It can process vast amounts of medical literature, clinical trial data, and patient records, extracting meaningful insights and patterns that are crucial for identifying suitable candidates for clinical trials.

By integrating Google MedLM’s capabilities with Patientory’s blockchain platform, pharmaceutical companies can now access a more refined and expansive pool of potential trial participants. Google MedLM’s advanced data analytics can swiftly sift through millions of health records, identifying patients who meet the stringent criteria for specific trials. This speeds up the recruitment process, ensuring that trials can commence without unnecessary delays.

Enhancing FDA Submission Processes

The complexity of submitting a proposal to the FDA cannot be understated. It requires meticulous documentation, comprehensive data analysis, and an impeccable presentation of the trial’s potential benefits and risks. Traditionally, this process has been labor-intensive and prone to human error, often leading to prolonged review times.

The Patientory-Google MedLM partnership addresses these challenges head-on. Google MedLM’s ability to process and analyze clinical trial data extends to the preparation of FDA submission documents. Its natural language processing capabilities enable it to generate precise and comprehensive reports, ensuring that all necessary information is presented in a clear and structured manner.

Patientory’s secure blockchain infrastructure ensures that all data used in the submission process is tamper-proof and verifiable. This not only enhances the integrity of the submission but also builds trust with the FDA, potentially accelerating the approval process.

The Synergy of Technology and Healthcare

The collaboration between Patientory and Google MedLM represents a significant step forward in the integration of cutting-edge technology with healthcare. This partnership exemplifies how AI and blockchain can be harnessed together to solve complex problems, from patient recruitment to regulatory submissions.

For pharmaceutical companies, this means a more efficient pathway from research to market. The ability to recruit patients swiftly and submit robust, data-driven proposals to the FDA can significantly reduce the time and cost associated with bringing new drugs to market. For patients, this translates to quicker access to potentially life-saving therapies and treatments.

Looking Ahead

As the healthcare industry continues to embrace digital transformation, the Patientory-Google MedLM partnership stands as a beacon of innovation. By streamlining the critical phases of clinical trials and regulatory submissions, this collaboration not only enhances efficiency but also paves the way for more rapid advancements in medical research and patient care.

In the near future, we can expect to see even more groundbreaking collaborations that leverage the strengths of AI, blockchain, and other emerging technologies. These advancements will continue to shape the healthcare landscape, making it more responsive, efficient, and patient-centric.

Stay tuned as we follow the developments of this exciting partnership and its impact on the pharmaceutical industry and beyond. The future of healthcare is indeed bright, and it’s partnerships like these that are lighting the way.

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Meet the 2020 Pitch for Purpose Finalist

As the world continues to recover from a global pandemic that has swept communities with staggering speed, entrepreneurs across the nation are using their ideas, innovations, and creative minds to generate long-lasting solutions to the challenges that confront us.

That’s why earlier last year the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and SEED SPOT teamed up to create Pitch for Purpose, a pitch competition recognizing mission-driven founders whose startups are leveraging technology to change the world. Through the competition, they wanted to elevate social entrepreneurs’ important role in the pandemic response and provide access to resources as needed to help scale the impact.   

Patientory was invited to apply for a chance to win a $15,000 cash prize and gain access to mentorship from industry leaders, as well as a national platform to showcase our solution. 

After much effort, we are excited to announce that we were one of the finalists for the 2020 Pitch for Purpose competition.

About Pitch for Purpose: Pitch for Purpose is held in conjunction with the third annual Digital Empowers Summit, which will convene leading business and community leaders, technologists, and changemakers to set the tech-for-good agenda for the ‘next normal.’ The conference is free and open to the public.

About Patientory: Patientory, Inc., a global population health management software that gives users access to actionable insights from their health data.

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Patientory Partnership with Trialscope

We’re super excited to announce that Patientory is now partnered with Trialscope, a company that transforms trials through transparency.

TrialScope unlocks clinical trials access to patients for Pharmaceutical Companies. TrialScope is the most widely adopted clinical trials transparency platform, supported by leading subject-matter experts, TrialScope offers technologies and partnership unprecedented in the industry.

The Patientory partnership with Trialscope will bring the best solutions and patient populations together to accelerate the clinical trial process. Patientory users will receive first-hand access to cutting edge clinical trials. 

About Trialscope:

TrialScope unlocks clinical trial data superpowers. The TrialScope Transparency CloudTM makes centralizing, structuring and activating clinical trial information simple, for use across the organization and at every stage of the study. Our integrated platform is used by 16 of the top 20 clinical trial sponsors in the world, who rely on TrialScope to ensure disclosure compliance, maximize trial transparency, improve patient engagement and accelerate study recruitment. To learn more, visit TrialScope.com

About Patientory:

Patientory empowers healthcare systems, providers, and consumers with a single, secure application for sharing healthcare data, providing unprecedented insight into each patient’s health and resulting in better, healthier outcomes.  Patientory’s applications provide increased insight into an individual’s health management and empowers people to make better decisions, coordinate between care providers, and receive better care overall.

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Blockchain In Internet of Things

Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT) are both poised to be world-changing technologies, just at the beginning of their adoption curve.

What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?

The internet of things (IoT), is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, that are provided with unique identifiers ( UIDs ) and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.

The total installed base of the Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices is projected to amount to 75.44 billion worldwide by 2025, a fivefold increase in ten years. 

The IoT, enabled by the already ubiquitous Internet technology, is the next major step in delivering the Internet’s promise of making the world a connected place.

Source: statista.com

 

What is Blockchain?

Blockchain is a distributed database existing on multiple computers at the same time. It is constantly growing as new sets of recordings, or ‘blocks’, are added to it. Each block contains a timestamp and a link to the previous block, so they actually form a chain.

Blockchain in IoT

At the current rate that how technology is evolving, it’s not weird to discuss the potential implementation of blockchain when it comes to connectivity and internet of things. IoT – is not complicated; It’s the concept of connecting any real-world devices to the Internet and devices to each other. The communication between these devices with each other and the internet can be facilitated through blockchain technology. The distributed ledger technology allows for a list of interactions between the devices and the internet. This way, we can keep track of not only which devices interact with each other and the internet, but also what is being done through each interaction. Blockchain is designed as a basis for applications that involve transactions and interactions, so you can see why and how this might help when it comes to IoT.

IoT and blockchain can be used to increase security infrastructure and also used for the extraction and analysis of data.

Conclusion

Blockchain technology is the missing link to settle scalability, privacy, and reliability concerns in the Internet of Things. Blockchain technologies could perhaps be the silver bullet needed by the IoT industry. The decentralized approach would eliminate single points of failure, creating a more resilient ecosystem for devices to run on.

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Patientory joins the Oregon Enterprise Blockchain Venture Studio

We are absolutely thrilled to join the Oregon Enterprise Blockchain Venture Studio, a partnership that will continue to enable us to lead in the growth of proven enterprise blockchain solutions to serve local, national and global healthcare markets.

About OEBVS Program

This year, R/GA Ventures, a subsidiary of consultancy R/GA, announced their 15th tech collaboration studio, with the goal of innovating blockchain technology, as well as create a “blockchain ecosystem” Oregon.

The project will be headquartered at R/GA’s Portland office.

There are six companies participating in this program aim to take advantage of blockchain technology and work in a variety of industries including healthcare, finance, education, and more. 

“​Over the last few years, we have seen blockchain technology evolve from early and sometimes experimental uses to increased adoption at the enterprise level,”​ ​said Stephen Plumlee, Vice Chairman of R/GA and Managing Partner of R/GA Ventures.

Companies in this program are:

  1. Patientory (patientory.com) – Empowers end-users globally with a secure platform to manage and transfer their health data to achieve actionable insights for improved health outcomes and well-being.
  2. Brave (brave.com) – Secure, Fast & Private Web Browser with Adblocker
  3. Chronicled (chronicled.com) – Gives industries and enterprises the tools to build blockchain-powered supply chain ecosystems with built-in trust, automation, and privacy.
  4. Concord (concord.tech) – Concord provides privacy-first data solutions that protect and reward brands and the people they engage with.
  5. Everest (everest.org) – Decentralized platform incorporating a massively scalable payment solution, EverChain, with a multi-currency wallet, EverWallet, and a native biometric identity system, EverID. Everest delivers a complete solution for a new economy.
  6. qiibee (qiibee.com) – With qiibee, businesses around the world can run their loyalty programs on the blockchain.

We’re excited to work with them and hope this will help us to the next step. We will keep you posted on our participation in the Oregon enterprise Blockchain Venture Studio (OEBVS). Stay tuned!

To learn more and stay in the know, visit patientory.com or follow @patientory on Twitter.

About Venture Studio

In 2013, they launched the first R/GA Accelerator out of New York office—going beyond financial capital to provide founders with access to R/GA’s award-winning talent and robust client network. Today, they’re building a history of startup acceleration with a new global model that takes a unique and multidimensional approach to corporate innovation.

About Patientory

Patientory empowers healthcare systems, providers, and consumers with a single, secure application for sharing healthcare data, providing unprecedented insight into each patient’s health and resulting in better, healthier outcomes.  Patientory’s applications provide increased insight into an individual’s health management and empowers people to make better decisions, coordinate between care providers, and receive better care overall.

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Patientory Summer Interns 2019

National Intern Day, which is the third Thursday in July, was started in 2017 and was created to recognize interns for all of the hard work that they do. In celebration of this day, this year, we’ve had the pleasure of having seven students from Georgia State University’s Clinical Informatics Department working with us as part of the Patientory internship program.

Internship Program

Our summer internship program this year ran for 6 weeks. Seven students were chosen to join us at the Atlanta Tech Village the 4th largest startup co-worker hub in the United States. 

Partnership with Georgia State University

Our new partnership with Georgia State University Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing provides their students with clinical informatics experience to aid in preparing a workforce for advancing the future of healthcare delivery.

Health Informatics Graduates

Health informatics as an industry is still in its infancy. Healthcare providers were slow to adopt clinical information systems at the point of care. Only now, because federal requirements accelerated the implementation of electronic health records, is the industry starting to evolve. Now that all this health information is in electronic form, the ability to analyze this immense volume of data has created new opportunities to improve care. That’s why the federal government is predicting such huge growth in this area over the next decade. In fact, the major issue that the industry is now facing is the lack of individuals with training and experience to fill the many open positions. 

There were seven interns along with their supervisors and other leaders in attendance. They are studying the field of health informatics, the design, and implementation of IT-related in health care at Georgia State University, the public research university in Atlanta, Georgia. 

  1. Thuy DoTran
  2. Yemuda Killen
  3. Tram Bui
  4. Xueling Wang
  5. Quynh Nguyen
  6. Salman Simjee
  7. Olivia Collins

Part of the internship program consisted of the interns giving short presentations about what they learned throughout the course of their internship, and how they will use their new skills in their future careers.

One of these interns, Salman Simjee, described our company culture as, “[The] team is very open and supportive. They were always present to listen to our questions and provided us with insights about the industry.”

“The company culture is nice and respectable as well as the people who work at the Atlanta Tech Village.“ Quynh Nguyen. 

New Horizons

Interns learned more about how clinical informatics can improve the overall patient experience such as,

  1. Technology APIs electronic medical records integrations (HL7/FHIR, etc)
  2. KPIs (based on electronic data)/CHF disease states examples
  3. Nursing informatics and Smart FHIR training recommendations
  4. What is being offered by other patient centric healthcare IT as Analytics
  5. Analytic visualizations for both mobile and enterprise

And a lot more!

Final Day

Most of the interns already knew what they wanted to pursue coming into the internship. Tram Bui says she pursued Clinical Informatics at Georgia State University to become a healthcare data analyst and the patientory internship program helped her to kick start her dreams.

On the final day of the program, all our interns shared feedback about how their internship helped them figure out what career path they want to take.

We expect that number to continue to increase, by next summer, 2020.

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CASE STUDY: Forging The Path To Consumer-Directed Health Through Blockchain Technology

Overview and Background

Despite incredible advancements over the last decade in converting paper healthcare records into digital data, a vast majority of consumers lack access to their electronic medical records. Sadly, many people cannot manage their healthcare records any better than they could a decade ago or even three decades ago. While it can be easy for some to point the finger at the bureaucracy and red tape of healthcare institutions, the truth is that many of these institutions would like to share data with their patients but don’t have a secure and easy way to do this. This challenging dynamic is because many medical providers use different electronic health record (EHR) systems that actually may not be able to communicate with one another easily. The resulting situation has become a significant problem where patients are caught in the middle of the healthcare industry’s lack of interoperability and without solutions that can provide patients accessible and secure healthcare data.

Patientory DApp Solution

Patientory, a digital health company based in Atlanta, Georgia, has developed a distributed application DApp solution that provides individual consumers with quick, easy, and secure access to their healthcare data. As the industry leader for DApp blockchain solutions, Patientory recently developed the first version of its beta DApp for consumers.

Patientory’s DApp leverages blockchain technology, which is an open and secure technology that captures transaction records on blocks that are connected and stores them on a distributed and encoded database that acts as a ledger. Blockchain has incredible security benefits as the records are spread across a replicated database network in which all the databases are in sync. Users, however, can only access the blocks to which they have permission to. Lastly, all the transactions that happen over blockchain are date and time stamped.

As for DApps, they are applications that interface with blockchains which are not stored or controlled by a single entity or in a single location. This means that a particular EHR or healthcare provider does not solely control an individual’s healthcare data, thus allowing for more efficient, user-friendly, and secure sharing of healthcare data among different providers
and EHR platforms.

This new DApp solution was created from research data Patientory has collected over the past few years regarding the challenges that healthcare consumers face on a regular basis and how these challenges have evolved over time. With the DApp solution, Patientory’s goal is to create a one-stop-shop solution for healthcare consumers, where they can access their health information, engage in health-related transactions, and become empowered to improve their health by having the necessary data and tools to do so.

The DApp Beta Test

To evaluate the DApp’s product-market fit and overall effectiveness as a solution, Patientory initiated a beta test project with specific goals outlined. The goals of their research were:

  • To verify the efficacy of the distributed App
  • To seek insight into the interface’s user acceptance and general quality
  • To examine product functionality in real-world user environments and test the necessary support infrastructure
  • To collect customer suggestions and testimonials, test the profile establishment protocols and the goal-setting, activity tracking, and wallet functionalities alongside the data storage protocols for securing personal health information (PHI) within the PTOYNET™ private permissioned blockchain
  • To identify opportunities for future development regarding desirable user features and functionality

To best accomplish their goals, 80 beta users were selected to use the app for three months in all functionality areas from setting goals, tracking fitness activities, traveling internationally and utilizing the wallet feature with Dash and PTOY cryptocurrencies. The demographics and personas of the beta users were primarily affluent, health-conscious iPhone owners, with a majority owning one or more cryptocurrencies. These individuals are primarily based in the US, with a majority located in the urban settings of New York City, Atlanta, San Francisco, Los Angeles, as well as non-US countries including the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland as well as India and Asia. At the end of the three months, the beta users were then
given a detailed survey requesting their feedback on their experience with the DApp solution.

DApp Beta User Survey Results

The below results a summary of key user feedback that Patientory received:

  • The DApp is relevant and engaging.
    • 90% of respondents found the entire app useful with no elements irrelevant.
    • 80% of respondents said that they did not find any parts of the app unnecessarily complicated.
    • More than half of respondents found the app ‘very engaging.’
  • Users found DApp most useful for fitness-related activity.
    • Respondents reported that goal-setting for walking and exercise was the most useful aspect of DApp.
    • Respondents also showed interest in nutrition tracking. While 80 percent of respondents reported that they track walking or steps, 60 percent reported tracking food and hydration
  • DApp is easy and fast to install and use.
    • A full 70 percent of participants reported that they felt that the app was easy and intuitive to install, and the remaining 30 percent reported that after this initial experience with the app, they would know exactly how to install it again in the future.
    • No one reported difficulty with installation or the need to have others help them install the app. Only one respondent said that they needed someone to show them how to use certain features of the app.
    • With respect to speed, 40 percent of participants found DApp much faster than most other apps they use and participants ran into no difficulties syncing the DApp with their other apps. Participants had between 10 and 260 different apps on their phones. No participants found the app slower than other apps.
  • Beta users generally felt that DApp comprehensively covered their healthcare-related needs currently.
    • When asked about what the DApp is missing, 50 percent responded “nothing,” and when asked what features participants would add, 30 percent said “none.”

Conclusion

From Patientory’s beta testing of its new beta and the subsequent user survey, it is evident that the DApp is meeting a clear and immediate need for the consumer market. Despite only being a beta product, the vast majority of users found the DApp to not only serve as a valuable healthcare solution but also function as an excellent tool for managing fitness and diet. Along with the value of the app, most individuals found the user experience to be very engaging and relevant, which is an indicator for repeated and ongoing use. Lastly, the back-end software of the app performed quite well according to a majority of users, with the speed of the app and ease and time of install getting high marks.

While these results reflect the feedback of a current beta product for Patientory and updates and enhancements will undoubtedly be made, the data shared in this report validates the value and need for Patientory’s DApp today. Nothing illustrates this idea more than a quote from a passionate beta user “I’m all in! I want to see this become a worldwide standard. Given our mobile society, this is key to saving lives.” We couldn’t agree more.

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How New Blockchain Offerings Can Improve Consumers’ Healthcare Experience

The complex nature of several aspects of the healthcare system sometimes seem to suggest that the system is not, in fact, built for the stakeholder it is meant to serve – the patient or healthcare consumer. Consumers struggle to get adequate time with the right healthcare providers, to obtain accurate and up-to-date health information, to navigate the wieldy health insurance industry, and to pay for expensive medical interventions that may or may not be necessary. Perhaps most frustrating to consumers, is the hassle of accessing or sharing their own personal health information.

A Complex Health System Reflects Complex Healthcare Demands

Of course the system has not been built with the goal of being complex or esoteric. The intention behind difficult-to-access health data is not to keep patients or their families in the dark about pertinent health information. Instead, access has become difficult in response to growing needs and demands for data privacy and security. Just as consumers want to be able to access their own health records at will, they also want their records kept private and secure from manipulation or modification.

While the shift to electronic health records (EHRs), which has been broadly adopted by healthcare providers, has improved the ability of consumers to readily access their records, these EHR systems do not adequately address privacy and security issues, nor are they as efficient as they theoretically might have been. Indeed, EHRs tend to suffer from interoperability problems, which prevent different types of EHR systems from interacting seamlessly with others. Thus, if a consumer sees healthcare providers that use distinct EHR systems, those providers may not be able to share the consumer’s health-related information in an efficient or precise manner.

Blockchain Can Enhance Access in a Secure Way While Providing Additional Consumer Benefits

The Patientory App for consumers makes it easier for patients to access, store, and manage their health information in a simple and secure way while also providing other solutions to consumer-facing challenges in healthcare. An important distinction of the Patientory App is it is a distributed App, or DApp, rather than a traditional App. DApps leverage blockchain technology, and specifically, have a distributed nature. In other words, DApps are applications that interface with blockchains, which are not stored or controlled by a single entity or in a single location. This means that a particular EHR or healthcare provider does not solely control an individual’s healthcare data, thus allowing for more efficient, seamless, and secure sharing of healthcare data among different providers and EHR platforms.

Using the Patientory App, consumers are not only able to access their health information themselves able to grant selected access permissions to others, but they can also use the App to better manage their health continuously and in real-time. For instance, they can set health-related goals, track behavior and progress, and access educational or support tools, resources, and communities. In addition, consumers can use the Patientory App to navigate payment options and execute individual payments. Given the breadth of solutions that the Patientory App provides – and its potential to cumulatively collect consumers’ information over the lifespan – the App is poised to become a one-stop-shop for healthcare consumers looking to take control of both their health and health-related factors like health finances. The greater transparency afforded by the App can even drive down healthcare costs by enhancing preventative care and reducing crisis management and hospital readmissions.

The Patientory App also utilizes  the Patientory utility currency, PTOY , where PTOY coins can be used for transactions and storage within the private, permissioned blockchain. As Patientory also has a dashboard offering for other healthcare stakeholders, including healthcare providers and payers, the company is building a fail-safe blockchain infrastructure with solid interoperability capabilities. The company is therefore taking a 360-degree approach to its blockchain solution for healthcare so that the information and value that each stakeholder brings can be efficiently transferred to other stakeholders, and individuals from all corners of the healthcare system can benefit.