SAS and Thread announced the launch of a proprietary offering that enables emerging biopharma companies to modernize their clinical research in a simple and cost-effective way. AI and analytics leader SAS and Thread, a leader in decentralized research, have partnered on a new solution that supports biotech companies with data preparation, evaluation, and submission.
The newly launched offering combines SAS’ comprehensive cloud-native analytics with Thread’s decentralized clinical trial (DCT) and electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) platform to enable biopharma companies to better control and oversee their clinical study data. The regulatory compliance-enabled solution features a consolidated analytics environment that pulls data from multiple sources, including participant- and clinician-reported data provided by Thread. For larger pharmaceutical organizations, Thread’s data also can be surfaced within customer-specific SAS analytical environments.
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“To meet the evolving needs of clinical trial participants in the age of digital health, research organizations are transforming the way they discover, develop, manufacture, and commercialize new therapies,” said John Reites, co-founder and CEO, Thread. “We are excited to partner with SAS to provide this unique solution to biopharma customers who want to collect data via next-generation research designs.”
The new partnership starts with the integration of SAS‘ Statistical Computing Environment (SCE) solution, built on SAS Viya, SAS’ cloud-native, massively parallel AI and analytics platform, with Thread’s technology platform providing data access, analysis, and visualization for shared customers. It will allow the two organizations to build on their initial collaboration into innovative, DCT-specific analytics by combining the unique data elements captured by Thread with SAS AI, machine learning, and visualization.
“With SAS and Thread, biotech companies can modernize clinical research and deliver new therapies to market faster to improve health. And more of their people will benefit from advanced analytics,” said Jason Mann, Vice President of Internet of Things (IoT) at SAS.
SOURCE: PRNewswire