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Recognizing the need for accelerating medical product development and modernizing the drug approval process, the 21st Century CURES Act was enacted in 2016 and augmented the ability for the FDA to incorporate real world data and patient perspectives into the drug approval process. While randomized clinical trials are still the gold standard, observational data is increasingly utilized to supplement clinical trial design, as synthetic controls in single arm trials and for label expansion.

PicnicHealth partners with life science companies, academic research institutions, and health systems organizations in applying real world evidence for the advancement of patient care and treatment. We produce high quality multimodel datasets that cover a patient’s entire medical journey and are more comprehensive and customizable than existing sources of real-world data.

Announcing the official launch of PicnicHealth's scientific research platform. PicnicHealth is gathering medical records data from proactively consenting patients, de-identifying it to ensure patient data privacy, and then aggregating it with the goal of deepening the scientific understanding of serious diseases. This data, known as “real-world data” helps researchers better understand what diseases look like outside of the controlled setting of clinical trials where research has traditionally been done.