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Philips, Amazon Ink Deal for Digital Pathology Image and Data Storage
The firms said that the collaboration will help more labs to adopt digital pathology through a cloud-based service for data storage, management, and analysis.
Cancer Research UK, Guardant Health Ink Research, Data Sharing Partnership
The collaboration aims to help accelerate the discovery and development of cancer drugs and diagnostics through ongoing and potentially new clinical trials.
The company, infamous and long derided in the genetic testing community for refusing to share BRCA1/2 variants, has decided to change its stance as part of a "strategic transformation."
If the Center for Genomic Interpretation's in silico quality assessment catches on with payors, some labs are sure to push back or propose data sharing as an alternative.
Highmark Asks Labs for Additional Validation Data on Cancer NGS Tests; Will Other Insurers Follow?
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The payor wants to see data beyond what is required through CLIA, and recommends labs use the Center for Genomic Interpretation to gauge how well tests detect and interpret variants.