• Trump's Tax Cuts Will Boost UnitedHealth's 2018 Profits By $1.7 Billion

    Forbes |  UnitedHealth Group, already growing rapidly from health insurance and its Optum health services unit, will see a boost of another $1.7 billion thanks to the Republican-led tax cut package passed and signed into law a month ago by President Trump.

    Jan 16, 2018

  • It’s About Time We Get Serious About Timely Payment To Clinical Research Sites

    Clinical Informatics News | John P. Neal, Founder and Chairman of PCRS Network, says study sponsors and CROs need to get serious about paying sites in a timely manner in order to get priority attention from good sites.

    Jan 16, 2018

  • DNA Sequencing Holds Some Promise For Treating Tumors

    NPR |  Sequencing the DNA of cancer tumors to help pinpoint treatment is an emerging element of precision medicine. While patients and doctors alike want these tests, they often don't benefit patients.

    Jan 15, 2018

  • JP Morgan 2018 News Roundup

    Clinical Informatics News | The 36th annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference was held this week in San Francisco, bringing together more than 400 companies to showcase their growth and innovation. Here are some of the highlights and announcements we’ve collected from the conference.

    Jan 12, 2018

  • Should AI Be Priority In Healthcare?

    Clinical Informatics News  At a JP Morgan panel yesterday afternoon, what started as a discussion on the promise and future of artificial intelligence shifted to more fundamental discussions of drivers of health care.

    Jan 10, 2018

  • TriNetX Releases NLP Service For General Availability

    Clinical Informatics News | TriNetX has recently unveiled their new Natural Language Processing service for general availability, using algorithms to extract critical information from clinical notes and reports.

    Jan 9, 2018

  • Mother Alleges Biotech Firm Stole Data From Her Sick Children

    Forbes |  Chris and Hugh Hempel, parents of twin girls with an extremely rare and fatal genetic disease, are suing the rare disease therapy accelerator Cydan and the biotech companies Vtesse and Sucampo Pharmaceuticals for alleged breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and misappropriation of trade secrets.

    Jan 8, 2018

  • Mayo, Veritas Offer Sequencing To Healthy Individuals

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Mayo Clinic and Veritas Genetics announced a collaboration today to make whole genome sequencing broadly available to healthy individuals.

    Jan 8, 2018

  • Study Finds No link Between In-Patient Portal Use, 30-Day Readmissions

    MobiHealthNews |  A study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association shows that in one patient population, use or non use of a patient portal had no statistically significant effect on 30-day readmissions or 30-day mortality.

    Jan 5, 2018

  • INC Research and inVentiv Health Becomes Syneos Health

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | INC Research and inVentiv Health, which merged in August have announced a new name: Syneos Health, Inc. The merger, announced last May and made final in August, combined Contract Research Organization (CRO) and Contract Commercial Organization (CCO) capabilities. Now Syneos Health claims to be the only fully integrated, end-to-end biopharmaceutical solutions organization.

    Jan 4, 2018