Cota Healthcare Announces Major Multi-Year Collaboration With Global Pharmaceutical Leader To Advance Innovative Therapies For Breast Cancer Patients

NEW YORK, March 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cota Healthcare, the leading data and technology platform for value-based precision medicine, today announced the signing of a major, multi-year collaboration with Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation to help improve clinical and cost outcomes for breast cancer patients.

As part of this agreement, which expands significantly on the previous announced collaboration entered into January 2016, teams from across Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation will leverage Cota's research-grade, real-world evidence, web-based analysis and visualization tools, and be supported by Cota's medical, data science, and technology experts. Utilizing the real-world evidence and technology platform supplied by Cota is expected to enable Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation to accelerate clinical development of new therapies for breast cancer and identify which patients will benefit most.

"Data and insight that comes directly from patient records - real-world evidence - is transforming how pharmaceutical and life science companies develop more precise, targeted therapies," said John Hervey, CEO of Cota. "Novartis has been an incredible collaborator over the last several years in adopting Cota's real-world evidence solutions to advance our shared goal of quantifiably improving and extending patient lives."

Cota's platform is powered by the patented Cota Nodal Address™ (CNA) system, a digital classification methodology that stratifies patients based on all the personal and clinical factors that matter to the individual. Each patient with the same CNA can be considered medically identical, and thus should have similar treatments and outcomes.

"We're excited about helping Novartis get deep insight into how patients are getting treatment in practice and connecting the dots all the way from patient to doctor to researcher," said Dr. Andrew Pecora, Founder & Executive Chairman of Cota. "Analyzing this data using CNAs is a critical factor in enabling healthcare companies to develop and target therapies that increase outcomes and lower the total cost of care."

About Cota Healthcare: 
Cota Healthcare is a technology platform that enables providers, payers, and life science companies involved in diagnosing and treating complex diseases to optimize the outcomes of individual patients and lower the overall cost of the patient population served. It is powered by the patented Cota Nodal Address™ (CNA) system, a unique digital classification methodology built by leading physicians and data scientists. The CNA is the first and only system that precisely categorizes patient factors, their diseases and intended therapies, enabling precision medicine at scale.

Cota's technology enriches raw medical records to create research-grade data, and joins it with a suite of analysis, visualization, and management tools. This enables providers, payers, and life sciences companies to analyze, report on, and research outcomes, costs, treatments, and quality at any granularity and stage of the patient journey. The result is a constantly improving system that merges technology and science to help improve the lives of patients everywhere.

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