Konica Minolta Medicine, Inc. (KMPM), a subsidiary of Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) today announced the acquisition of the assets of Backpack Health (BPH), a secure mobile and web-based health data management platform.
The BPH tool empowers patients to securely store and manage their personal health information and automatically share with caregivers, as well as contribute authorized anonymized data to the research community, fully aligning with KMPM’s mission to advance precision medicine through genetics, imaging, pathology and artificial intelligence. The BPH management health tool will further bridge medical data gaps to better understand patient needs and unite KMPM’s precision medicine companies, Invicro LLC, a global provider of imaging biomarkers, core lab imaging services, advanced analytics and software solutions for drug discovery and development and Ambry Genetics Corporation, a leading clinical genetic testing lab.
“We are incredibly excited for the team at Backpack Health to join the KMPM organization,” stated Dr. Jack Hoppin, President of Konica Minolta Precision Medicine. “The mission of Backpack to facilitate relationships between foundations, individuals and patients in need and developers of novel therapeutics fits squarely at the center of our pharmaceutical and clinical research efforts at Konica Minolta Precision Medicine.”
“I’m excited to see the expansion of the Backpack Health platform offering with the addition of world-class genetic and image curation via the KMPM family,” noted Mr. James Cavan, Chief Executive Officer of Backpack Health. “The unique commitment to our users and foundations will be expanded by new and novel offerings. Drug manufacturers will realize an unprecedented research and community engagement linkage.” Mr. Cavan joins KMPM and Invicro as Vice President of Backpack Health leading product strategy and commercial operations.
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The multilingual Backpack Health application is a complimentary portable health record (PHR) platform for registered patients and their delegated caregivers to manage their unique medical condition and data information and is fully desktop, iOS or Android accessible globally. Access to patient authorized de-identified PHRs will be made available gratis to medical foundations to build patient engagement communities and to pharmaceutical research sponsors for a fee to support drug development research and clinical trials.
“We are looking forward to bringing added value to our pharmaceutical sponsors through the utilization of the BPH platform,” commented Dr. Matt Silva, Chief Executive Officer of Invicro. “BPH will offer the pharmaceutical community improved patient connection and access to real-world data to accelerate drug discoveries for novel diseases.”
“Backpack Health is another key and unifying element of Konica Minolta Precision Medicine, allowing us to offer more opportunities to expand both our pharmaceutical and clinical services,” said Dr. Aaron Elliott, Chief Executive Officer of Ambry Genetics. “The platform nicely bridges the capabilities of KMPM and will better allow Ambry and Invicro to realize the synergies between them.”
Source: Biospace