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In my early days as a doctor, digitizing health records was once the most revolutionary and foreign concept. As a physician and business leader I was frustrated by the amount of data we captured, but were unable to use to improve patient care and business optimization. As I watched data pile up never to be seen again, I quickly realized that clinical data could be the key to finding new protocols and understanding the complete patient journey. Building a solution to optimize the possibilities of this data was necessary to improve patient care. 

In 2019, we built Latica, an AI based platform that enables anonymized medical records to be securely shared so physicians, researchers and institutions can store, analyze and collaborate on healthcare data in a secure cloud environment that is HIPAA and GDPR compliant. 

Most importantly, by cutting down months of searching, clearing and accessing private data repositories, Lynx accelerates clinical research and treatment development. With our solution, researchers can now easily access and utilize this robust data.In just a few minutes, researchers can find qualified patients or curate cohorts for a clinical trial. Processes that normally take researchers months or even years are now solvable in a matter of minutes. 

Privacy concerns? Keeping healthcare data secure is a key focus for Lynx. Our approach of de-identifying data satisfies all privacy requirements while allowing organizations to be the sole authority over their information. And If the provider chooses not to share their data with other organizations, they are able to securely use Lynx as an internal analytics tool to provide business and clinical insights for their own practice. 

By accelerating partnerships in medical research, Lynx medical intelligence enables experts to explore new treatments, protocols and care paths with the potential to save millions of lives. Not only can the Lynx AI system filter, sort and analyze structured EMR data, it also has the ability to study unstructured data such as radiology images and physician notes. This unparalleled insight into quality of care and patient outcomes allows medical systems to drastically improve care paths that can positively impact patient’s lives. 

Lastly, without compromising the privacy or security of any healthcare data , Lynx has developed the right platform to enable collaboration with real-world medical data which enables researchers to solve medical mysteries in less time than was ever imaginable.

Data is the driving force behind future advancements in medical technology and the development of next-generation diagnostics & therapeutics. To make a powerful impact on the health of millions of people requires unparalleled access and the ability to collaborate using high-quality, real-world patient data that is securely shared and minimizes the risk to patient privacy.

From early detection to outcome prediction, healthcare data can unlock enormous possibilities for medical innovation and gains, such as:

• Clinical decision-support AI for reducing medical errors;
• The use of medical images to diagnose emerging medical conditions;
• Expanding access to quality care for underserved populations;
• Providing longitudinal medical records to reduce readmissions and run effective preventative care programs that improve outcomes and reduce the cost of care.

Yet, gaining access to real-world patient data and rich datasets for collaboration and research has been prohibitively burdensome and a bottleneck to progress for several reasons:

• Prior methods for de-identifying patient records reduce the utility of the data. In addition, because de-identification changes the data, there’s a gap between how the AI models were trained and what the data was tested on, essentially leaving out critical information.
• Aggregation and de-identification of real-world patient data is such a big undertaking that it’s usually done once, and then the data remains static. In other words, new sources that could feed or update the data models aren’t used.
• Linking to and querying information sources can result in personal data re-identification, making this practice risky for patient privacy for healthcare organizations.

That’s where Lynx comes in. We are a medical intelligence platform that brings together disparate elements of the healthcare data ecosystem to empower truly collaborative research and development at scale without compromising security or privacy. Leading medical institutions globally trust our platform with millions of patient records.

• The Lynx platform processes structured (such as forms) and unstructured (such as physician’s notes or medical images). Patient data is de-identified on the fly and always compliant with privacy regulations.
• The Lynx platform processes and makes data available in real-time, making datasets fresh and continuously updated.
• Platform users can browse the Lynx catalog and explore diverse datasets inside a private cloud environment that is military-grade secure.
• The Lynx Data Science Workbench provides the tools needed to train and validate models inside the private cloud environment, giving the researchers the flexibility and tools they need.

The Lynx cloud-based medical intelligence platform accelerates the time-to-market and time-to-value healthcare solutions by allowing customers to collect, analyze and share medical data without compromising patient privacy or data security. We’re proud to be backed by top-tier VCs, including Amdocs, iAngels, Mizmaa, New York Life Ventures, Seed IL, Triventures, and UpWest.

Everyone ends up interacting with the health system and tackling these issues is key to transforming the medical care we all receive and integrating novel solutions into an otherwise traditional industry. Solving these challenges will help re-invent healthcare as a data-first ecosystem bringing the best level of care to the people that really need it.

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A letter from our founders

At the start of 2022, Latica could only imagine the amazing growth and partnerships we would experience this year. As founders, our goal has always been to break down the barriers to sharing healthcare information. We knew this would be the greatest challenge but would result in improvements in patients care. The use of data has revolutionized other industries, but healthcare has continued to be left behind. We knew that building a secure platform would bring together healthcare organizations from across the ecosystem to collaborate using real-world clinical data that would influence the development of new therapeutics and create value for our partners. Unlock this value close to home first was the first step. Our vision was realized this year when we announced our partnerships with Clalit and the Ministry of Health, releasing the bottleneck for accessing data generated by millions of patient encounters.

Through our partnerships with companies like Gastro Health, ENT & Allergy Associates, ENT Partners and Albany ENT, we have created specialty-focused clinical data repositories in gastroenterology, allergy and otolaryngology spaces. Collectively this represents data from hundreds of millions of patient encounters—effectively telling the stories of these patients, their disease progression, and the management of their care. Bringing together data silos and being able to follow patients across their journey with multi-modal data of medical records, PACS imaging, and other data systems brings new opportunities to help healthcare realize the potential locked away in the data. Organizations need visibility through analytics into the true cost of delivering care to achieve operational goals while meeting the needs of their community. Researchers in all related industries need secure access to anonymized real-world patient data to bring diagnostic technology, and novel therapeutics to market faster and safely. This is an imperative that we all witnessed during the pandemic. Our partners have been helping us evolve use cases for our platform to meet the evolving needs of the industry as it phase-changes with the completion of the crisis.

One area where our partners have provided deep insights is into the new regulatory and policy directives that are making collaboration with data harder, yet more imperative. Changes in EU regulations that require medical devices be proven on EU citizens, the NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) policy, and an industry awakening to the damage created by population demographic bias in research all point to equitable, secure sharing of real-world clinical data. Collaboration is no longer an option – it is now a business necessity. Platforms, like Lynx, are one way for healthcare providers to maintain the governance of data while collaborating in a secure, private manner. This challenges historical approaches for data sharing and where data had to be transported. Today, data holders can retain sensitive patient data and only allow permissioned users to access the data in compliance with new and existing regulations.

Lynx would not be able to meet the high expectations of our partners if we did not continue to invest in our people. With the addition of new team members across the company, we tripled our staff. Our presence in the US, with new customers and employees also grew. We welcomed new executives to our leadership team. Dr. Alyssa Abo, a Lynx champion from Children’s National Hospital, joined our team as Vice President of Medical Affairs and Strategic Partnerships. Alyssa brings the client perspective to our team and to every client engagement. Jody Bare joined Lynx as Vice President of Sales. Jody is leading our US growth strategy with a focus to bring new health systems into the ecosystem. And, Eyal Herman most recently joined us as Vice President of Product. With the platform growing so quickly, it was time to bring in a strong product leader with experience building teams and directing the development of new solutions in cloud, AI, data, and healthcare.

As we close out 2022 we want to recognize all of our team members that worked countless hours across geographies to deliver a truly powerful platform that is exceeding our customer’s expectations. And, we thank our partners in healthcare and in business for opening our minds to new ideas and the potential created through the Latica platform.

We look forward to working with you in 2023.

Thank you.