Healthcare and Life Sciences
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extensionEngine is experienced in developing technologies that enable world-class healthcare delivery. Examples include:
- Innovative mobile platforms that let field health workers and rural medical technicians diagnose skin and eye ailments remotely using cellphone cameras
- An open source platform that bridges clinical research data and vast banks of basic science research data; developed in partnership with Harvard Medical School and Partners Healthcare, this scalable informatics framework helps researchers better understand the genetic bases of complex diseases
- An FDA-regulated platform for collecting and managing diaries used by patients in clinical research
Client examples
extensionEngine is an active contributor to an NIH-funded project “Crimson Cell”, which is building an application that will enable IRB-compliant use of discarded materials from hospitals. The Crimson Cell is designed to interface with the i2b2 Hive software framework. i2b2 (www.i2b2.org) is an NIH-funded National Center for Biomedical Computing based at Partners HealthCare System which has built and distributed an open source scalable informatics platform to enable clinical researchers to access, organize and conduct research on existing clinical data.
PHT Corporation is the leading provider of electronic patient reported outcome (ePRO) solutions used in clinical trials worldwide. The PHT ePRO System provides patients and researchers with a reliable and efficient method for collecting, managing and analyzing high-quality patient reported outcome data. PHT works with extensionEngine across a variety functions to maximize value and quality for PHT customers.