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Alphabet’s Verily builds its own lab to speed up coronavirus test results

Cooper Neill | Reuters Alphabet’s health and life sciences company Verily has developed its own lab focused on coronavirus tests.  The company shared in a blog post on Tuesday that it established the lab in South San Francisco, where it’s headquartered. Verily said that the lab is CLIA-certified, meaning it meets the standards required of… Read More »

Apervita’s NCQA approval helps health plans speed VBC analysis

Value-based care platform provider Apervita says it is the first company to be certified by the National Committee for Quality Assurance for electronic clinical quality measures using a clinical quality language-based engine. The company’s newly certified CQL-based engine—based on HL7 logic standards that support both eCQMs and clinical decision support—can be adopted by healthcare organizations… Read More »

Operation Warp Speed gains two leaders in effort to accelerate vaccine development

On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced two leadership appointments to Operation Warp Speed, the program of public and private partnership aimed at accelerating the development of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics. Venture capitalist Dr. Moncef Slaoui is being brought on as chief advisor. Slaoui most recently served as a partner at… Read More »