Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, Inc., a commercial-stage medical technology company, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Development Support Agreement (“DSA”) with Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health, the largest nonprofit health system in the Intermountain West. This agreement creates the framework for the two organizations to partner on a number of future studies evaluating the potential value of using Perimeter’s OCT and collecting additional data to support the continued development of the Company’s artificial intelligence (“AI”) algorithms.
In the first of these studies, Intermountain Health will support a retrospective analysis of population level reoperation rates and incremental healthcare costs associated with reoperation for patients who underwent initial breast-conserving surgery (“BCS”) at select hospital sites.
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“At Intermountain Health, we understand the significance of innovation, like Perimeter’s proprietary wide-field OCT interoperative margin assessment technology, that has the potential to optimize surgical oncology outcomes for patients, and support efficient delivery of care,” said Teresa Reading, MD, medical director, breast surgery, Canyons Region at Intermountain Health who is involved with the clinical use of this technology. “We look forward to initiating this first study among our BCS patient population, as well as potentially expanding to other tissue types in the future.”
“Intermountain Health is a fully integrated healthcare delivery system. It shares our commitment to improving both the patient and provider experience through innovation. And with its own health plan, Intermountain Health is uniquely positioned to evaluate the total cost of cancer reoperations – not only to the patient, but also to the payer,” commented Adrian Mendes, Perimeter’s Chief Executive Officer. “We are excited about how this partnership can help shape our commercial and market access strategies as we work to advance not only our next-generation, AI-enabled Perimeter OCT system for use during BCS through the FDA PMA approval process, but also as we look to expand into other tissue types beyond breast.”
Source: PRNewswire
