Optum Labs, the collaborative research and innovations center co-founded by Optum and Mayo Clinic, has announced four new partners have joined its research collaborative.
Harvard Medical School Department of Health Care Policy, Medica Research Institute, Merck, and the
"Our growing base of partners enables Optum Labs to expand into additional areas of healthcare research, paving the way for new initiatives that can be directly translated to improvements in patient care," said Paul Bleicher, MD, CEO of Optum Labs. "We are excited by the diverse perspectives our partners are bringing to a growing number of research studies under way."
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