• 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  • FDA Releases Draft Guidance on EHR Use in Clinical Trials

    Clinical Informatics News | The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday released a 12-page draft guidance on the “Use of Electronic Health Record Data in Clinical Investigations.” The draft guidance is intended to modernize and streamline clinical investigations, the Agency stated, promoting the use of electronic health records in clinical investigations.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

  • PerkinElmer Sells LIMS Product to New LIMS Company

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | PerkinElmer Health Sciences has sold its LABWORKS LIMS product line to Labworks, LLC, a new company comprising many previous PerkinElmer/LABWORKS employees. The LABWORKS LIMS product line has a 25-year history of LIMS excellence and a 300+ customer base. No financial details were released.

    May 11, 2016

  • STAT-Harvard poll Public wary of faster FDA approvals of drugs

    STAT |  A majority of Americans opposes regulatory changes to speed up the approval of new drugs and medical devices, a new STAT-Harvard poll finds.

    May 11, 2016

  • The pressure to publish pushes down quality

    Nature News & Comment |  Scientists must publish less, says Daniel Sarewitz, or good research will be swamped by the ever-increasing volume of poor work.

    May 11, 2016

  • Defining & Building Protocol Competitiveness

    Clinical Informatics News | Everybody is fighting for the same patient pool. To develop an advantage, AstraZeneca and Anolinx are collaborating on a competitive strategy by creating a trial design library, pseudo populations, increasing clinical efficiency, and generating a new clinical buzz word with an old idea.

    May 9, 2016

  • Best Practices: Risk Based Monitoring For A Small Staff

    Clinical Informatics News | Best Practices Finalists | When PaxVax, a small vaccine biotech, wanted to run a Phase IV trial with only its existing staff, it turned to MANA Consulting to build a workflow for risk-based monitoring that would fit within its existing budget.

    May 6, 2016

  • Envera Health raises $14M for patient engagement platform

    MobiHealthNews |  Richmond, Virginia-based patient engagement company Envera Health has raised $14 million in a round led by Harbert Venture Partners and Noro-Moseley Partners with participation from New Richmond Ventures.

    May 4, 2016

  • IMS Health, Quintiles Announce Merger

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | IMS Health Holdings, Inc. and Quintiles Transnational Holdings Inc. announced today that their respective boards of directors approved a definitive merger agreement, in which the companies will be combined in an all-stock merger of equals transaction. The merged company will be named Quintiles IMS Holdings, Inc.

    May 3, 2016

  • Personalized Trials: Finding the Right Trial for the Patient

    Clinical Informatics News | A team of bioinformaticians at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital has applied machine learning to predict which patients will participate in clinical trials. When physicians approached patients, 60% of them agreed to participate in trials. Using an algorithm to predict trial interest, the researchers pushed the acceptance rates to 72%.

    May 3, 2016

  • FDA Slowly Chips Away at ANDA Backlog

    RAPS |  The number of abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs) pending review is declining according to the latest numbers from FDA. Instead, FDA is waiting to hear industry responses.

    May 2, 2016