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  • 2015 News

    New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC is pleased to announce that it started partnering with Brigham and Women's Hospital's Department of Radiology and Еlucid Bioimaging Inc. in developing a solution to detect lung nodules from low-dose radiation CT images. This is aimed at increasing the utility and effectiveness of CT-based screening for lung cancer.

    Newton, Massachusetts, September 2015.

    Dr. Vlad Valtchinov, PhD, a Founding Principal of NATG, who is also working side-by-side with the BWH Principal Investigator Dr. Jen Siegelman, MD, MPH, will oversee all activities on the project, and especially ensuring a seamless hand-off is in place between the Institutional Review Board (IRB) certified, e-identified patient data on which the NATG personnel will work to perform the required steps of the data manipulation and analyses. Says Vlad Valtchinov, “We at New Atlantic Tech are very proud to be working alongside such heavy-weights in the industry as Brigham and Women's Hospital and Elucid Bioimaging, Inc. on improving the tools and approaches of utilizing low-dose computed tomography imaging for lung cancer screening”.

    Commonly known as GGONs (“ground-glass opacity nodules”), the specific lesions that are the most difficult to correctly assess for future risk of developing lung cancer will be analyzed and tracked by the new system, based on the ElicidBio's lung CAP application. The New Atlantic contribution will be along three main directions: a) develop and validate ontology-based Natural Language Processing techniques for identification of retrospective studies of GGONs based on radiology narrative, b) design, develop and implement a system to structure the findings from the quantitative imaging markers extraction and development of predictive risk model, and c) assist with the pilot analysis of whole-blood based expression profiles in building molecular and mixed (clinical variables, quantitative imaging and gene expression) risk models of lung cancer development.

    In addition, Brigham and Women's Radiology Department, Eclucid Bioimaging Inc. and New Atlantic Tech Group will be applying for a SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant with the National Institutes of Health.

    About New Atlantic Technology Group, LLCM
    NATG, LLC is an information technology-enabling boutique company that specializes in delivering complex business software solutions and services for customers in the healthcare, biomedical, biotechnology, life-sciences, and financial services sectors. Our main focus and value proposition is in empowering organizations with a better, actionable knowledge of their data. We possess the expertise and the resources to assist companies in capturing, structuring, preserving, and analyzing their business data, for a more complete alignment of their business processes and IT practices.

    About Brigham and Women's (http://www.brighamandwomens.org/)
    Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is an international leader in virtually every area of medicine and has been the site of pioneering breakthroughs that have improved lives around the world. A major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, BWH has a legacy of excellence that continues to grow year after year. Brigham and Women's Health Care – the parent corporation for Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital and the Brigham and Women's Physician Organization – includes 150 outpatient practices with over 1,200 physicians. We serve patients from New England, throughout the United States, and from 120 countries around the world. BWH is an internationally-known referral center for the most complex cases in nearly all areas of medicine. In fact, U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks BWH among the nation's top 10 hospitals and in the top 10 for specific specialty areas that in 2015 include cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, and rheumatology

    About Elucid Bio (http://elucidbio.com/)
    Elucid Bioimaging applies engineering principles and systems analysis to biomedical challenges spanning the discovery/development process. As a service provider, we engage with clients and partners in the development of technology, strategy, and cross-stakeholder solutions to meet these needs. As a research organization, we act as prime or sub on grants, cooperative agreements, and research contracts.

  • 2014 News

    New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC and SolidBio to investigate utility and build translational research system based on tranSMART for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) patients, in the US.

    Newton and Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2014

    NATG announces that it has started collaborating with SolidBiosciences on investigating the utility and building translational research data systems, for prospectively collecting complete clinical (i.e. the complete electronic medical record) and bio-bank of samples from patients with DMD, from the US population.

    The collaborative aims to utilize tranSMART Foundation's system (based on the National Center For Biomedical Informatics' i2b2 platform) for structuring, storing and integrating disparate streams of phenotyping and genotyping data across patient populations. NATG hopes to work with various SolidBio partnering companies and non-profit institutions in figuring out ways to find non-overlapping and catalyzing activities that might lead to systems containing rich data sets for further instrumenting discovery and translation for rare diseases, and DMD specifically. We aim to seek federal funding support from the National Institutes of Health, and from the multitude of DMD related non-profits serving the DMD patient community.

    About New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC
    NATG, LLC is an information technology-enabling boutique company that specializes in delivering complex business software solutions and services for customers in the healthcare, biomedical, biotechnology, life-sciences, and financial services sectors. Our main focus and value proposition is in empowering organizations with a better, actionable knowledge of their data. We possess the expertise and the resources to assist companies in capturing, structuring, preserving, and analyzing their business data, for a more complete alignment of their business processes and IT practices.

    About SolidBio (http://solidbio.com/)
    A Biotech company built solely for DMD, it brings sharp commercial focus and world-class science to advance promising therapies. Solid is a catalyst across all aspects of the disease. Condition-focused, with comprehensive mandate; improving daily life for patients and attacking the roots of DMD. Solid exists to advance treatments and find a cure for patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

  • 2011 News

    New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC and PyxisNet Limited, today announced they have entered a long-term, non-exclusive partnership agreement for collaboration across projects and for a more transparent resource allocation and sharing

    Newton, Massachusetts and Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 11, 2011

    "We are happy to have PyxisNet Ltd. among our long-term development partners," said New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC's Founder and Principal Vlad Valtchinov, PhD. "PyxisNet Limited shares our passion for quality application development using structured processes and thrives in customer satisfaction. Our skill and experience matrices are very similar yet complimentary, which gives both of our companies an easy way to allocate more resources and/or utilize the correct ones should they need it for larger projects."

    "Our two teams have already established a tight match in working together on a year-long project", adds Ali Ishtiaq, CEO and Managing Director of PyxisNet Limited. "The collaboration with New Atlantic Technology Group allows us to pool our skills and resources in a synergistic manner that can better satisfy market needs."

    About New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC
    NATG, LLC is an information technology-enabling boutique company that specializes in delivering complex business software solutions and services for customers in the healthcare, biomedical, biotechnology, life-sciences, and financial services sectors. Our main focus and value proposition is in empowering organizations with a better, actionable knowledge of their data. We possess the expertise and the resources to assist companies in capturing, structuring, preserving, and analyzing their business data, for a more complete alignment of their business processes and IT practices.

    About PyxisNet Limited
    Pyxisnet is a CMMI Level 3 company that excels in providing customized software solutions tailored to the business needs of its clients. Founded by a graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) the company has developed internationally acknowledged expertise in software development through extensive training from Danish architects. We have years of experience satisfying the software needs of international companies; our customer references are our most important marketing assets. Pyxisnet is providing solutions to clients primarily from Denmark and the US, ranging from enterprise solutions using .Net and Java technologies to custom applications for iPhone and Android phones.

  • New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC and Medvance Solutions, Inc. to integrate ResultScribe® with the SMART Platforms and participate in the SMART Apps Challenge on Challenge.gov

    Newton, Massachusetts, March 08, 2011

    The New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC announces that it has started the process of integration of the ResultScribe® system with the SMART Platforms and has also entered, together with Medvance Solutions, Inc. the SMART App Challenge on Challenge.gov.

    "One of the largest hurdles for any start-up in the US healthcare informatics arena is to integrate their product as painlessly as possible with as many as possible of the larger players' systems in the very fragmented clinical information systems market", says Vlad Valtchinov, PhD, Principal at New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC in Newton, Mass. "Naturally, this obstacle was a challenge for Medvance Solutions, Inc. and its product ResultScribe® as well, which we have been developing and supporting since 2004, so when I heard about the new Harvard Medical School-based SMART Platform initiative I immediately knew this would be a game-changer for Medvance" adds Dr. Valtchinov who has also served as a Chief Technology Officer for the Newton-based Medvance Solutions, Inc. in the past. "The open, structured approach to eEHR adopted by SMART Platforms together with the support of API containers to proprietary HIS implementations will truly re-define the 'write-once-use-everywhere' concept for the thus-far very disparate world of medical and healthcare information systems, at least in the US".

    Says Dr. Jim Meisel, director of Medvance Solutions, Inc. , "We are very happy to be working together with NATG, LLC in this new endeavor to bring our flagship product ResultScribe® to potentially many new adopters. As a development partner NATG, LLC has been very quick on its feet to recognize the potential of the SMART Platforms approach and the value to ResultsSribe and we are very glad they did."

    Read more about the SMART Platforms here. The Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology has posted the SMART Apps Challenge on Challenge.gov. US CTO Aneesh Chopra Blogs SMART Challenge, read Mr. Chopra's White House blog here.

    About New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC
    NATG, LLC is an information technology-enabling boutique company that specializes in delivering complex business software solutions and services for customers in the healthcare, biomedical, biotechnology, life-sciences, and financial services sectors. Our main focus and value proposition is in empowering organizations with a better, actionable knowledge of their data. We possess the expertise and the resources to assist companies in capturing, structuring, preserving, and analyzing their business data, for a more complete alignment of their business processes and IT practices.

    About Medvance Solutions, Inc.
    Medvance has developed proprietary systems that enable physicians to rapidly create and deliver high quality, patient friendly, individualized letters and other important communications to their patients about their medical test results. The company's flagship product, the ResultScribe® system, uses a new kind of embedded clinical knowledge to help clinicians communicate test results and treatment plans to patients quickly, easily and effectively following office visits, while dramatically reducing related costs for the practice.

  • 2008 News

    NATG, LLC releases the first version of the Correlation Analysis Cell, to i2b2

    Newton, Massachusetts, August 17, 2008

    The New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC is very pleased to announce the first release of the Correlation Analysis plug-in, a major specialty-analysis Cell from the i2b2 hive.

    The i2b2 hive is the scalable computational platform the National Center for Biomedical Computing Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) has been set out to develop and disseminate. The Correlation Cell was developed by i2b2 and NATG, LLC under a contract supported by a grant from Partners HealthCare System, Inc. It is an open-source effort whose distribution is governed by the i2b2 Software License Agreement.

    About New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC
    NATG, LLC is an information technology-enabling boutique company that specializes in delivering complex business software solutions and services for customers in the healthcare, biomedical, biotechnology, life-sciences, and financial services sectors. Our main focus and value proposition is in empowering organizations with a better, actionable knowledge of their data. We possess the expertise and the resources to assist companies in capturing, structuring, preserving, and analyzing their business data, for a more complete alignment of their business processes and IT practices.

    About Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
    Partners HealthCare is a not-for-profit, integrated health care system founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Partners includes community and specialty hospitals, a physician network, community health centers, and other health care services.

    About i2b2
    i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside) is an NIH-funded National Center for Biomedical Computing based at Partners HealthCare System. The i2b2 Center is developing a scalable informatics framework that will bridge clinical research data and the vast data banks arising from basic science research in order to better understand the genetic bases of complex diseases. This knowledge will facilitate the design of targeted therapies for individual patients with diseases having genetic origins. The i2b2 is funded as a cooperative agreement with the National Institutes of Health.

  • 2007 News

    New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC Becomes an approved IT vendor for Partners HealthCare, Inc. in Boston

    Newton, Massachusetts, September 21, 2007

    New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC announces that it has become a certified IT consulting and solutions partner to Partners HealthCare System, Inc, in Boston.

    About New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC
    NATG, LLC is an information technology-enabling boutique company that specializes in delivering complex business software solutions and services for customers in the healthcare, biomedical, biotechnology, life-sciences, and financial services sectors. Our main focus and value proposition is in empowering organizations with a better, actionable knowledge of their data. We possess the expertise and the resources to assist companies in capturing, structuring, preserving, and analyzing their business data, for a more complete alignment of their business processes and IT practices.

    About Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
    Partners HealthCare is a not-for-profit, integrated health care system founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Partners includes community and specialty hospitals, a physician network, community health centers, and other health care services.

    New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC registers an European subsidiary as a Limited Liability Company in Sofia, Bulgaria

    Newton, Massachusetts, and Sofia, Bulgaria, January 20, 2007

    New Atlantic Technology Group, LLC has registered a subsidiary in Sofia, Bulgaria. The name of the new company is NAT Group, EOOD. The new company will focus on providing better personnel management and standardizing and streamlining the software development process across all NATG, LLC projects that require outsourcing and offshoring components.

    About NATG, LLC
    NATG, LLC is an information technology-enabling boutique company that specializes in delivering complex business software solutions and services for customers in the healthcare, biomedical, biotechnology, life-sciences, and financial services sectors. Our main focus and value proposition is in empowering organizations with a better, actionable knowledge of their data. We possess the expertise and the resources to assist companies in capturing, structuring, preserving, and analyzing their business data, for a more complete alignment of their business processes and IT practices.