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Drug firms seeing greater success with clinical trials
STAT | Drug firms may be seeing improved success in their clinical trials, but whether that trend is sustainable is an open question, an analysis says.
Jun 14, 2016
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Obamas choice to waive HIPAA in Orlando will likely help families and loved ones during the crisis.
Slate Magazine | Over the last two decades, the term HIPAA has effectively become synonymous with medical privacy. But guarding medical privacy was not, and is not, its only goal. HIPAA was enacted to facilitate the necessary flow of health information while taking care not to compromise patient control.
Jun 13, 2016
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ePatientFinder raises $8 million for its cloud-based clinical trial exchange platform
MobiHealthNews | Austin, Texas-based ePatientFinder raised $8.2 million to build out its Clinical Trial Exchange platform.
Jun 13, 2016
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Transparency Life Sciences Wants to Change How We Design and Execute Clinical Trials
Clinical Informatics News | Since its founding in 2010, Transparency Life Sciences (TLS) has been on a mission: to build a culture and a platform for moving clinical trials out of the existing healthcare system. It plans to accomplish this via new methods for designing and executing clinical trials through the use of crowdsourcing and digital technology.
Jun 6, 2016
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May New Products
Bio-IT World | News and product notes from Bioclinica, Genentech, Janssen, and more.
Jun 2, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
