• May New Products

    Bio-IT World |  News and product notes from Bioclinica, Genentech, Janssen, and more.

    Jun 2, 2016

  • After French tragedy European authorities to review guidelines for clinical trials

    STAT |  A clinical trial in France went horribly wrong. Now the European Medicines Agency is reviewing the guidelines for first-in-human studies to identify which areas need to be revised in order to avoid a repeat of the tragedy, and a report is expected to be completed by July.

    May 27, 2016

  • Celgene forms real-time real-world trial partnership

    PMLiVE |  Celgene and TriNetX will work to use Celgene's EMR data to support clinical study and protocol design, site selection, and patient recruitment across a range of therapeutic areas.

    May 25, 2016

  • Next step for Biden cancer effort national summit in June

    STAT |  Vice President Joe Biden will host a national cancer summit in Washington on June 29 to support his "moonshot" initiative.

    May 25, 2016

  • Practice Fusion alums developing iBeat a cardiac-monitoring wearable for baby boomers

    MobiHealthNews |  Nearly a year after stepping down as CEO of Practice Fusion, Ryan Howard has announced his new venture, started with a team of other former Practice Fusion colleagues. The company is called iBeat, and its first product will be a wearable personal emergency response system (PERS) device aimed at the 50 to 70-year-old market.

    May 24, 2016

  • PRO-ACT’s Big Dataset Vital to ALS Research

    Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Winner | Determined to re-define the treatment landscape for ALS, the Neurological Clinical Research Institute (NCRI) at Massachusetts General Hospital, in collaboration with Prize4Life, a not-for-profit dedicated to discovering treatments and cures for ALS, have created a platform to drive innovation in ALS research known as PRO-ACT.

    May 23, 2016

  • Artificial Intelligence Technology: How to Most Effectively and Efficiently Mitigate Risk When Meeting Data Transparency Requirements

    Clinical Informatics News | Best Practices Finalists | When clinical study reports can run up to 30,000 pages, redacting patient and company confidential information by hand is laborious and expensive. Synchrogenix uses artificial intelligence to automate the process.

    May 20, 2016

  • PrecisionFDA Wraps Up Second Challenge

    Clinical Informatics News | Taha A. Kass-Hout, FDA’s Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO) and Director of FDA’s Office of Health Informatics, and colleagues outline the precisionFDA Challenges.

    May 19, 2016

  • Teladoc plans chronic condition-focused programs by years end

    MobiHealthNews |  Teladoc plans to launch its first chronic condition management program by the end of the year, CEO Jason Gorevic revealed at a session toward the end of the American Telemedicine Association convention in Minneapolis. 

    May 19, 2016

  • Big Pharma Creates One-Stop Shop for Investigator Sites

    Clinical Informatics News | TransCelerate BioPharma’s Shared Investigator Platform (SIP) Initiative—launched in January—has its sights set on changing the relationship between sites and pharmaceutical companies working on clinical trials. “It is absolutely the first of its kind,” said Jackie Kent, TransCelerate’s SIP Initiative leader.

    May 17, 2016

  • FDA Releases Draft Guidance on EHR Use in Clinical Trials

    Clinical Informatics News | The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday released a 12-page draft guidance on the “Use of Electronic Health Record Data in Clinical Investigations.” The draft guidance is intended to modernize and streamline clinical investigations, the Agency stated, promoting the use of electronic health records in clinical investigations.

    May 16, 2016

  • Technology Can’t Solve Slavitt’s “Data Paradox”

    The Health Care Blog |  Andy Slavitt began his statement at the Datapalooza conference with encouraging words for those of us who believe that the measurement craze has been a disaster and that MACRA will make it worse. But the rest of Slavitt's statement reveals he has no idea how to solve the "data paradox."

    May 16, 2016

  • Preclarus Enables Faster Insights to Improve Clinical Trial Efficiency and Quality

    Clinical Informatics News | Best Practices Finalists | To manage large amounts of data stored in different systems, PPD created Preclarus: dashboards that offer real-time, interactive visualizations and analytics that let users drill down into data for detailed information.

    May 13, 2016

  • Datapalooza MACRA EHR Reform and Working with Doctors – Not Against Them

    The Health Care Blog |  Healthcare technology supports us in getting coverage, but it's failing us in the care experience.

    May 12, 2016