Google invests $130M in cancer data sharing startup.
1. Data Sharing Platform Allows Cancer Centers to Share Data
Most cancer centers base treatments on clinical trial research, but this research draws from data on only about four percent of patients, since most patients do not participate in clinical trials. Flatiron Health set out to get centers better access to data on the remaining 96 percent of patients. The New York-based company developed a cloud-based storage and analytics platform that enables centers to contribute their data to a central database in exchange for access to the other centers’ data. The database now contains about 550,000 cases, and organizers hope it will provide the sample sizes necessary for new research.
Most cancer centers base treatments on clinical trial research, but this research draws from data on only about four percent of patients, since most patients do not participate in clinical trials. Flatiron Health set out to get centers better access to data on the remaining 96 percent of patients. The New York-based company developed a cloud-based storage and analytics platform that enables centers to contribute their data to a central database in exchange for access to the other centers’ data. The database now contains about 550,000 cases, and organizers hope it will provide the sample sizes necessary for new research.
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