• The Diversity Problem: Making Clinical Trials Work for Everyone

    Clinical Informatics News | Twenty-three years after the National Institutes of Health created the Revitalization Act to increase the number of women and minorities in medical research, these groups remain vastly underrepresented in clinical trials. But, after all these years, a cure may finally be prescribed.

    Mar 31, 2016

  • March Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | The latest announcements and product launches from around the industry, including new partnerships in China's Precision Medicine Initiative, and networking technology for clinical trials from HealthCarePoint and ACRES.

    Mar 31, 2016

  • Technology for Patient-Centric Clinical Trials Wins for Science 37

    Clinical Informatics News | 2016 Best Practices Awards | Science 37, a two-year old startup based in Culver City, California, was formed by experienced clinicians determined to re-imagine and bring disruptive change to the inefficient clinical trial process. The clinical trials-savvy judges agreed with this assessment and named Science 37 one of the winners of the 2016 Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Awards.

    Mar 25, 2016

  • Small Mayo Clinic study finds health app helps cardiac rehab patients lose more weight

    MobiHealthNews |  Cardiac rehabilitation patients who used a health app lost more weight following a heart attack than those who went through cardiac rehabilitation without one, according to a small Mayo Clinic study that will be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session in Chicago next week.

    Mar 25, 2016

  • Researchers Find Uses for Open Access Trial Databases

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical trials made publicly available are not being used to validate primary results, researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute have found. In three open access clinical trial databases, only 15.5% of the public data have been requested, and research proposals focused on epidemiological studies, subgroup analyses, analyses of the disease state, or predictors of treatment response, instead of confirmatory studies.

    Mar 23, 2016

  • Nicholas Marko on Clinical Care, Health IT

    HealthBlawg | As part of his ongoing series of conversations with medical informatics experts, David Harlow at HealthBlawg  talks with Nicholas Marko, Chief Data Officer at Geisinger Health System about the points of contact between clinical care and health IT.

    Mar 22, 2016

  • Apple taps 23andMe to bring genetic data into ResearchKit

    MobiHealthNews |  At the same time as it announced CareKit, Apple announced in a press release that ResearchKit would be updated to more easily make use of users' genetic data, via a module designed by consumer genetics company 23andMe. Apple also added other modules for common medical tests to ResearchKit.

    Mar 22, 2016

  • Geisinger Health System and UC Berkeley Collide

    Clinical Informatics News | The Collider Project between UC Berkeley and Geisinger Health allows students to collaborate with an industry partner on data blending. 

    Mar 17, 2016

  • A Peek at Our Agendas for Medical Informatics World

    Clinical Informatics News | The Medical Informatics World Conference returns to the Boston Seaport this year, running just before Bio-IT World and featuring a host of excellent speakers and presentations. Here are some of the sessions we have flagged.  

    Mar 17, 2016

  • 21 clinical trials that are using Fitbit activity trackers right now

    MobiHealthNews |  Consumer activity trackers are inexpensive, user friendly, and reasonably accurate, so it's not surprising that as their public profile has grown, so have the number of researchers using them in clinical trials. We did a search of ClinicalTrials.gov for "Fitbit" -- just one of the activity trackers out there, but one of the most popular and high profile -- and found a surprising number of in-progress trials. 

    Mar 17, 2016

  • Physician-Patient Collaboration: Dr. Danny Sands

    HealthBlawg |  Health doesn't happen in the doctor's office. Now more than ever, patients and physicians must collaborate on care that exists between visits. Danny Sands, a Harvard physician and a speaker at the upcoming Medical Informatics World conference discusses collaborative care.

    Mar 15, 2016

  • Fatal Mistakes

    Vox | Preventable medical errors are a common cause of death in the United States. Being involved in one can also do serious, even irreparable, harm to caregivers.

    Mar 15, 2016