News - Polygon Health Analytics

Synthetic Data vs. Real-World Data: A Reality Check for Healthcare AI

Dec 15, 2025

I first encountered the concept of synthetic data back in 2013, while teaching a health informatics course as a tenure-track assistant professor at UNC Charlotte. To...

Drug Development Program Done Right: A Practical Checklist to Prevent Strategic Blind Spots

Nov 28, 2025

In the high-stakes world of pharmaceutical R&D, thousands of drug candidates are abandoned every year long before reaching patients. The harsh reality: fewer than...

QALYs Explained: The Metric That’s Shaping—and Dividing—Healthcare Policy

Nov 10, 2025

Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) are a cornerstone concept in health economics. They measure the value of medical treatments by considering both how long people live and...

Value-Based Health Care: Shifting the Focus from Quantity to Quality

Oct 23, 2025

Understand how value-based health care shifts focus from volume to outcomes, rewarding better results, reducing costs and improving patient care....

Budget Impact Models: A Practical Tool for Healthcare Decision-Making

Oct 07, 2025

Learn how Budget Impact Models help payers and HTA agencies assess short-term affordability of new healthcare treatments alongside cost-effectiveness analysis....

New White Paper: Charting the Landscape of Real-World Data in the U.S.

Oct 01, 2025

Learn how real-world data is transforming U.S. healthcare and life sciences. Our new white paper maps datasets, applications, challenges, and future directions....

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Polygon Health Analytics Launches Vaccine Trial Atlas: Making Clinical Trial Data Accessible

Sep 16, 2025

The vaccine research and development community has faced unprecedented challenges in recent months, including policy upheavals, leadership changes, research program cancellations, and a surge of misinformation...

Polygon Health Analytics Celebrates Graduation of 2025 Launchpad Cohort

Sep 03, 2025

[Philadelphia, September 2, 2025] – Polygon Health Analytics proudly announces the successful graduation of its 2025 Launchpad Program cohort—the second since the program’s inception—marking...

Patient-Reported Outcomes: Bringing the Patient’s Voice into Clinical Development and Outcomes Research

Aug 14, 2025

When it comes to healthcare, numbers and lab results only tell part of the story. What about how patients feel? How treatments impact their daily lives?...

Powerful AI Starts with High-Quality Data: Lessons from Edwin Chen and Surge AI

Jul 28, 2025

In a world where AI headlines are dominated by billion-dollar fundraises, massive model sizes, and compute power arms races, Edwin Chen offers a refreshing counter-narrative. As...

Understanding Health Technology Assessment (HTA): A Strategic Imperative for Innovators

Jul 15, 2025

If you're a scientist transitioning into the biotechnology sector or an entrepreneur developing a novel therapy for an unmet medical need, one term will...

Systematic Literature Reviews and AI: A Gold Standard Meets Innovation

Jun 01, 2025

Discover how Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) provide a gold-standard method for evidence synthesis in biomedicine—and how AI is transforming the process. Learn the key steps, differences from other review types, and the future potential of automation in research....