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Speaking To AstraZeneca And Huma About Digital’s Value For Pharma

 
• By Barnaby Pickering

AstraZeneca has been working with Huma to develop a series of software-based tools for monitoring patients. Medtech Insight spoke to both companies about the value of these partnerships and the potential challenges.

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Digital tools for recording data can transform patient care from a series of episodic snapshots into a continuum, allowing health care providers to deliver the treatments needed faster.

Naturally, these tools could be incredibly valuable to pharmaceutical companies – both in pre-market research and post-market surveillance – and...

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