• Survey Says: Patients Willing, Investigators Warning Of Mobile Trial Opportunities And Challenges

    Clinical Informatics News | The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) conducted a survey of potential research participants as part of its Mobile Clinical Trials program. The results are in. Trial participants are enthusiastic about mobile trials, and challenges for sites and investigators are being better defined and addressed.

    Mar 15, 2018

  • It’s About Time To Start Looking At Study Subjects As Individuals

    Clinical Informatics News | Chris Beardmore, CEO & Co-founder of Anova Enterprises, argues that clinical trials need to change their traditional focus from observing large groups of largely undifferentiated patients to the individual patient as the unit of observation.

    Mar 13, 2018

  • Mayo Clinic Finds IBM Watson Increases Enrollment of Clinical Trials

    MobiHealthNews |  The Mayo Clinic has just released the results of a new study, which show an 80% increase in enrollment of clinical trials for breast cancer when using IBM's Watson for Clinical Trial matching system.  The Watson system uses artificial intelligence to analyze unstructured information and pull out insights from the data. 

    Mar 9, 2018

  • What GlaxoSmithKline Learned From Their Digital Trial of Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Clinical Informatics News | Patients say they would rather participate in a mobile or digital clinical trial than a more traditional site-based trial, but getting a mobile trial to work has proven more complicated. Michelle Crouthamel of GlaxoSmithKline shares what she’s learning about apps, retention, and whatever happened with the company’s PARADE study.

    Mar 8, 2018

  • Pain Points for Clinical Trials Sites Abound In Systems And Devices

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical trial sponsors often rave about the data they collect from mobile devices, and visionaries wax poetic about the ways these datasets—combined with artificial intelligence and machine learning—will change medicine. But along the way clinical trial sites are drowning in devices and systems and the charging cords for all of them.

    Mar 6, 2018

  • Eliminating Silos: Dismantling the Frankenstein of Clinical R&D

    Clinical Informatics News Contributed Commentary In January 2017, there were 4,003 pharmaceutical companies with nearly 15,000 drugs in the pipeline. Yet only 1 in 5 drugs actually make it to market. Technology inherently aims to streamline processes, eliminate manual effort and create efficiencies, but is technology still doing this for clinical research?

    Mar 5, 2018

  • The Future Of Health-Care Technology Is Already In Your Pocket

    Pacific Standard |  An app designed at Johns Hopkins is saving patients' lives-and the hospital thousands of dollars.

    Mar 1, 2018

  • DrugDev, CRF Health, Bracket, And More: News From February 2018

    Clinical Informatics News | February was full of exciting news in the clinical trial and healthcare community, including partnerships, products, and promotions from DrugDev, CRF Health, Bracket, and more.

    Feb 28, 2018

  • NINDS Builds Networks To Recruit Patients, Controls For Neurology, Stroke Trials

    Clinical Informatics News | Neurological disorders are difficult to diagnose and challenging to treat. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes is working to change that.

    Feb 27, 2018