Healthcare benefits company Aetna Inc. (AET) and the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School Thursday announced a research agreement aimed at analyzing health care data in new ways to further clinical research and improve the quality and affordability of health care.
Aetna said the research will be conducted by members of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and Aetna clinicians and informatics specialists. It will be supervised by Isaac Kohane, Henderson Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics, and Brian Kelly, head of Informatics and Strategic Alignment at Aetna.
Dr. Kohane said, "Major advances in research and clinical care can be made by applying new bioinformatics techniques to large, aggregated clinical databases. We are excited about the opportunity to work with Aetna to rapidly develop and deploy algorithms and applications that can make a real impact on biomedical discovery and patient care."
Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Researchers on the project will benefit from the extensive clinical resources and expertise available through the HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics and its affiliated institution.
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