December 19, 2017 | This year featured several conferences hosted by Cambridge Healthtech Institute, the parent company of Clinical Informatics News. These events covered 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. Here’s a look back at some of the stories from 2017 covering those important discussions and groundbreaking news, as well as a look ahead to next year’s agenda.

--The Editors

Welcome to Miami: New Products and Launches at SCOPE 2017

Several companies took advantage of the 8^th annual Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE) to make new product and business announcements. Here are a few of the exciting things heard and seen on the show floor, including Lyft and Continuum Clinical’s partnership through which patients enrolled in clinical trials will be able to use the Lyft app or Lyft’s Concierge program to secure transportation to and from the trial site, free of charge. Read more

2017 Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Awards Winners Announced

The winners of the Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Awards were announced at the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives. Prizes were awarded to Mytrus, CluePoints, and DrugDev. Read more

Participant Engagement Award Winners Named At 2017 SCOPE

Cambridge Health Institute and Patient Enrollment Advisors named the 2017 SCOPE Participant Engagement Award winners. Eli Lilly and Company, winner of 1^st place, partnered with Buzzfeed to raise awareness of clinical trials and drive traffic to Lilly's on-line clinical trial hub, Lilly TrialGuide. Read more

How Design Theory Is Building Better Trials

Speakers at this year’s SCOPE meeting stepped out of the clinical space to borrow innovative thinking from design houses. Applying design thinking to the clinical trials process means spending more time with patients and sites and carefully identifying problems before moving forward with solutions. Read more

ThoughtSphere Builds A Data Lake For Clinical Trials

Our old ways of connecting to data are dead, Sudeep Pattnaik, ThoughtSphere’s CEO, told Clinical Informatics News during SCOPE. ThoughtSphere is a data lake, an architecture meant to collect vast pools of data from varied sources, and it’s focusing on clinical research data. Read more

Marking Up Our Agendas For Medical Informatics World 2017

The Medical Informatics World conference explored some of the newest in sensors, federally funded efforts for knowledge sharing and clinical decision support, the strategies for evaluating and managing multi-jurisdictional laws and regulations while scaling your digital health business, and more. Read more

Making Health Information Exchange Work

Clinical Informatics News editor, Allison Proffitt, spoke with Angie Bass, CEO of Missouri’s health information exchange, Missouri Health Connection (MHC) in preparation for the Medical Informatics World conference about her experiences connecting health information across the state of Missouri. Read more

The Rise of Real-World Evidence

Real-world data sources and analytic technologies seek to answer what treatments work for whom, why, in what context, and at what cost. And everyone wants in. Real-world evidence will be a big focus at SCOPE 2018. Read more