ALEXANDRIA, Va. — CancerLinQ LLC and the data services companies Tempus and Precision HealthAI announced today they have entered into an agreement that will accelerate development and delivery of high-quality, de-identified clinical databases for use by CancerLinQ®, its oncologist subscribers, partners, and the broader cancer community. The agreement will also enable CancerLinQ to more quickly build and expand on its core data sharing and quality improvement platform for oncology practices, and facilitate Tempus’ and Precision HealthAI’s connection to industry to support faster and better development of new treatments for patients.

Through the new agreement, Tempus and Precision HealthAI will curate data into high-quality datasets to be used to improve quality of cancer care and for research. These datasets will be made available through the core CancerLinQ® quality improvement platform and CancerLinQ Discovery™, a service that provides access to high-quality, de-identified datasets for non-profit organizations, health care providers, academic researchers, and government agencies. Tempus and Precision HealthAI will bring these de-identified datasets to industry partners to produce practical applications such as targeted therapies, more efficient clinical trials, and data-driven analyses to help determine which therapies are producing the greatest patient benefit. Royalties from this license will help to support ASCO’s CancerLinQ® initiative.

“Tempus and Precision HealthAI bring first-rate technical capacity that complements CancerLinQ’s existing strengths,” said Clifford Hudis, MD, FACP, FASCO, CEO of ASCO and Chairman of the CancerLinQ Board of Governors. “They share our vision for improving patient care and have the right combination of experience and commitment to innovation to help us provide useful information, faster, to subscribing practices and the entire cancer community.”
“At Tempus, we have built a platform to help usher in an era of precision medicine, empowering physicians with the tools and information they need to improve patient outcomes,” said Eric Lefkofsky, founder and CEO at Tempus. “Building on the vast network that CancerLinQ has established, our team will apply sophisticated technology tools to this large body of clinical and molecular data to help power cutting-edge research and produce actionable clinical insights.”

“We are developing an innovative AI platform for the management, delivery and use of clinical data. Our experienced team of health care data and technology professionals focus on developing artificial Intelligence and machine learning-driven solutions for a range of oncology stakeholders,” said Romesh Wadhwani, PhD, Chairman of Precision HealthAI. “Applying our technology solution to de-identified CancerLinQ data will help the broader community to accelerate research and the development and administration of new therapies.”

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