• 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

  • Trump FDA Chief Scott Gottlieb Isn't Pharma's BFF After All

    Bloomberg Gadfly |  Since rejoining the FDA in May as its leader, Scott Gottlieb has been showing the industry the free market cuts both ways.

    Jan 4, 2018

  • Clinerion, Greenphire, Novaseek, And More: News From December 2017

    Clinical Informatics News | December was full of exciting news in the clinical trial and healthcare community, including partnerships, products, and promotions from Clinerion, Greenphire, Novaseek, and more.

    Jan 3, 2018

  • Top 10 Stories Of 2017: Real World Evidence, The EU’s GDPR, And More

    Clinical Informatics News | As we head into 2018, we at Clinical Informatics News would like to take a moment and reflect on the achievements from this past year. In that spirit, here are the top 10 stories of 2017.

    Dec 27, 2017

  • It’s About Time: Conversations In The Clinical-IT Community

    Clinical Informatics News | It’s About Time | Over the past few months, Norm Goldfarb has shared candid conversations with representatives from sponsors, CROs, tool-providers, and regulatory oversight groups on the pain points in clinical research and what changes are needed. Here are a few highlights from those discussions.

    Dec 26, 2017

  • SCOPE Preview: Patient Engagement, Real World Data, And Biomarkers In Clinical Trials

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical Informatics News will be attending the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives—SCOPE—in Orlando, Fla. from February 12-15, 2018. Here are just a few of the items from the agenda we’ve flagged so far.

    Dec 21, 2017

  • The First CRISPR Clinical Trial Could Begin in 2018

    Futurism |  For the first time ever, a CRISPR clinical trial has been applied for and will hopefully prove that the gene-editing technique truly holds potential.

    Dec 19, 2017

  • Year In Review: 2017 Conferences, Discussions, Awards

    Clinical Informatics News | A look back at the conferences held by Cambridge Healthtech Institute, covering a wide range of content that focused on bringing members of the clinical trial and healthcare communities to come together to promote innovative technologies from clinical trials to medical informatics.

    Dec 19, 2017

  • Clinical Trial Contracting Challenges: Streamlining CTA Negotiations Beyond Legal Language

    Clinical Informatics News Podcast | Débora Araujo of Boehringer Ingelheim is featured on this podcast from Cambridge Health Tech Institute in preparation for the SCOPE Summit for Clinical Ops Executives. Araujo discusses her expertise in clinical trial agreements and some of the daily challenges she faces in negotiations and contracts.

    Dec 13, 2017

  • It’s About Time: We Get Serious About Paperless Clinical Research Sites

    Clinical Informatics News | It’s About Time | With the increasing cost pressures and complexities of clinical research, Ana Marquez, President of Marquez Clinical Site Partners, wants clinical research sites to move to a 100% paperless system.

    Dec 12, 2017

  • Bioethics International Releases Second Good Pharma Scorecard

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Bioethics International announced the second publication of its Good Pharma Scorecard, an annual index ranking large pharmaceutical companies and new drugs on their clinical trial transparency, in BMJ Open.

    Dec 11, 2017