American College of Rheumatology joins NEWDIGS LEAPS Project

Eric NormanLEAPS, News

Initiative to design a systemwide “learning engine” for rheumatoid arthritis in Massachusetts The American College of Rheumatology (ACR), an international medical association that serves more than 8,500 members of the … Read More

Massachusetts Pilot Disease Selection

Eric NormanLEAPS, Research Briefs

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) chosen as target for LEAPS Massachusetts (MA) Pilot (RAMA) to demonstrate the feasibility and impact of a sustainable and patient-centered healthcare learning ecosystem to optimize care regimens … Read More

Pediatric Gene Therapy Launches

Eric NormanFoCUS, Research Briefs

Gene therapy cures for hereditary genetic conditions are likely to reach the United States market in the coming decades. Several disease areas with potential cures are orphan conditions, which affect … Read More

Patient & Caregiver Themes Survey

Eric NormanFoCUS, Research Briefs

Patients and caregivers are key stakeholders in the development of system-wide, implementable precision financing models for durable and curative therapies. Patient and caregiver challenges are generally assumed to be primarily … Read More

Address: From Bigger Data to Smarter Evidence

Eric NormanLEAPS, News

On Tuesday, February 26th, Dr Gigi Hirsch, Executive Director of MIT NEWDIGS, gave a presentation for the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science to a gathering of local academic, clinical, and industry leaders … Read More

Preparing Patients and the Health System for Curative Therapies in the Pipeline

Eric NormanFoCUS, News

Paying for Cures Conference, February 12, 2019

American Journal of Managed Care Curative therapies represent a conundrum for healthcare. On the one hand, there is the ability to cure patients of potentially life-threatening diseases or diseases that … Read More

MIT Releases New Policy and Practice Suggestions to Make Cures Accessible and Sustainable

Eric NormanFoCUS, News

Senators Whitehouse and Cassidy address the Paying for Cures Conference

Innovative Therapies Will Require Innovations in Financing and Regulations WASHINGTON, DC, February 12—Today, the MIT-based Financing and Reimbursement of Cures in the US (FoCUS) consortium released a series of large-scale … Read More

“Dynamic Dossier in the Cloud” to Transform Data Sharing, Starting with Federal Regulators

Eric NormanLEAPS, News

New platform will redefine biopharmaceutical data sharingMIT NEWDIGS and the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science announced the Dynamic Dossier in the Cloud today, a radical new platform that promises to … Read More