Verily Forms ‘Ultimate Alliance’ with Pharma Heavy Hitters

What is Alphabet’s Verily up to now, is probably a question that is asked and answered on a regular basis. Google’s farmer life science’s arm has worked with some pretty big players in healthcare on projects ranging from surgical robotics to smart contact lenses. On Tuesday, Verily revealed yet another long-term project – one that would have it work with some of the top players in the pharmaceutical industry, in an effort to improve clinical research. The company said it had formed strategic alliances with Novartis, Otsuka, Pfizer, and Sanofi to implement a more patient-centric, technology-enabled approach to research, and increase the number and diversity of clinical research participants. “Verily has spent the last several years developing tools and technology through Project Baseline, including the Baseline Platform, that our partners will leverage to run digitally innovative, patient-centered clinical research programs,” Scarlet Shore, lead for Project Baseline, Verily, told MD+DI. “By engaging more patients and providers, making it easier to conduct research, and using a single operating system to collect higher quality, more real-time, real-world data, we hope to generate better evidence and improve patient outcomes.” Verily launched Project Baseline in 2017 with the goal of bridging the gap between research and care. The compan...
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