Oracle Health Sciences Network: Genetic Alliance joins the trend to Help Patients Gain Access to Clinical Trials.

It official, since Jun, 24, 2013 Oracle Health Sciences Network, increasingly expands its portfolio of services and expertise. Henceforth Genetic Alliance, has joined the Oracle Health Sciences
Network , with the goal to create a bridge linking individuals in its crowd-sourced patient registry to clinical trials.

According to the terms of agreement, the Oracle Health Sciences Network will help connect patients who participate in the Registries for ALL system with healthcare providers and research organizations developing and testing new therapies.

This means, ‘’improve collaboration and accelerate cohort identification for clinical trials to bring better, safer, more targeted therapies to consumers more rapidly’’.

 “Genetic Alliance is excited to join Oracle Health Sciences Network because of the difference it will make for individuals, families and communities living with genetic diseases,”. “Anyone anywhere can share their clinical information in our Registries for ALL system and set their sharing preferences to allow it to be part of Oracle Health Sciences Network’s de-identified index, which makes them discoverable for clinical trials across the nation. With Oracle Health Sciences Network as part of our registry, we improve the odds that trials will accrue faster.” said Sharon Terry, president and chief executive officer, Genetic Alliance.

“Collaboration and the secondary use of health information are key to advancing personalized medicine. Oracle Health Sciences Network provides a vital and growing resource for the health sciences community, allowing organizations and now individuals to share important de-identified patient, clinical, and genetic information that can accelerate clinical trial recruitment and the delivery of new therapies to market,” said Neil de Crescenzo, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Health Sciences Global Business Unit.

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