Boston Childrens Hospital
Boston Childrens Hospital is a 400-bed children’s hospital in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Children’s is adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical School, and to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Childrens is one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Children’s offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. Children’s was ranked #1 in 8 out of 10 clinical specialties by the U.S. News & World Report, and as the nation’s number one pediatric hospital for 2014-15.
Children’s was founded in 1869 to pioneer specialized approaches to treating children and became affiliated with the Harvard Medical School in 1903.
WuXi-NextCODE
The WuXi-NextCODE genomics platform was created and refined over 16+ years for application in large-scale population genetics research at deCODE Genetics based in Iceland. In 2013 the powerful information platform from deCODE was spun out to create a new company NextCODE Health, which in turn was acquired in 2015 by the Chinese company WuXi PharmaTech. This genomics platform serves as a foundational infrastructure to deliver genomic solutions for the new company, WuXi-NextCODE. Today, our partnership with WuXi-NextCODE enables Claritas and our ordering health care professionals to successfully diagnosis rare disorders derived from a patients exome or whole genome sequencing data allowing integration into day-to-day medical practice. Further, when diagnosis eludes us, the NextCODE platform enables research access for data navigation, visualization, and cross institutional data sharing using a secure Cloud environment fueling new discoveries.
The WuXi-NextCODE solution offers access to a full range of sophisticated data analysis, interpretation, and extensive data mining services, management of data queries, rules, and consents within Claritas Clinical Knowledge Base, as well as data generated through Claritas Research Sequencing Services.
Cincinnati Childrens Hospital
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) is a 600-bed pediatric hospital located in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is ranked third among all Honor Roll hospitals in the U.S. News & World Report survey of best children’s hospitals. Cincinnati Children’s receives the third-most NIH funds of any pediatric institution in the United States. The pediatric residency training program at Cincinnati Children’s is among the largest in the world, training hundreds of physicians each year.
In 1883, the hospital was incorporated and opened in 1884 to begin treating children
The hospital serves patients from 53 countries and 50 states and employs approximately 14,000 people and 1,500 active medical staff.
Cerner Corporation
Cerner Corporation founded in 1979, is a $3.4 billion dollar supplier of health information technology (HIT) solutions, electronic health records services, devices and hardware. Cerners products are in use in approximately 18,000 health care facilities around the world and the company has about 22,000 employees.
Cerner was awarded 2015 Worlds Most Admired Company in Health Care, by Fortune.
Traded on NASDAQ: CERN
Life/Thermo Fisher
Partnerships with Pharma/Rare Disease Companies
Claritas offers a variety of clinical testing services for pharmaceutical or biotechnology partners involved in rare disease therapeutic development or use delivering new therapeutics into the marketplace. This has included the development of specific gene tests involving optimized sequencing of a specific target(s) and pathway genes useful for both patient screening and cohort analyses, all performed in our CLIA-certified testing laboratory. In addition retrospective cohort analysis may enable identification of particular gene variants in your therapeutic target genes or gene pathways providing you with data for hypothesis generation or confirmation and adding necessary support regarding the human relevance of selected mechanisms.