• Seven Tips to Use Social and Digital Media to Recruit and Engage with Clinical Trial Patients

    Clinical Informatics News Contributed Commentary | Social and digital media are important tools for reaching various patient populations. CROs are increasingly seeing the value of these mediums for recruiting patients and engaging with them during clinical studies. Social media can be more cost effective when compared to other advertising channels such as TV, newspaper, and radio ads because of its ability to more narrowly target an audience of interest.

    Mar 11, 2016

  • Unified Approaches to Rare Disease Research

    Clinical Informatics News | Rare Disease Day aims to increase awareness of rare diseases and their impact on patients, families, and medical professionals, hundreds of organizations are helping doctors find diagnoses and sufferers find solace. But, for a majority of the 350 million rare disease victims worldwide, hope is elusive and cures are as rare as the illnesses from which they suffer.

    Mar 8, 2016

  • DrugDev, Exostar Link Global Identifiers

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | DrugDev and Exostar yesterday announced they will combine Exostar’s identity credential with the DrugDev Golden Number, linking their unique global identifiers for clinical operations personnel and facilities.

    Mar 3, 2016

  • Sage Bionetworks releases data from first six months of Parkinsons mPower ResearchKit study

    MobiHealthNews |  Sage Bionetworks, a nonprofit biomedical research organization that developed the ResearchKit app mPower, has announced that it will release the first six months of data from the app. mPower, a Parkinson's-focused app, was one of the first five ResearchKit studies announced at Apple's launch of the kit in March 2015.

    Mar 3, 2016

  • Blackford Middleton on Clinical Decision Support & More

    HealthBlawg |  Middleton engaged in a bit of blue-sky prognostication: "Five or ten years from now we'll have nearly complete adoption of health IT infrastructure across the land. I think we'll have most healthcare transactions and information exchange automated."

    Mar 3, 2016

  • Supreme Court Strikes At States' Efforts on Health Care Transparency

    NPR |  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can't require many large employers to submit health care claims to a massive database. The decision means Medicare data will remain the go-to source for now.

    Mar 2, 2016

  • February Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | The latest products and announcements from around the industry, including a pediatric cancer genomics platform at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and PwC's consumer health accelerator DoubleJump Health.

    Mar 1, 2016

  • Cloudera Participating in President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative

    FierceBigData |  The company will provide training for researchers and free storage, processing, and analytics for 50 institutions.

    Feb 29, 2016

  • SCOPE 2016: Protocol Quality, Patient Centricity, and Claiming the Future for Clinical Trials

    Clinical Informatics News | A record 1,200 attendees at the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives, held this week in Miami, Fla., discussed everything from risk based monitoring, telemedicine, using EHRs in recruitment, and patient-level data sharing, to concierge travel, social listening, site activation and statistics, and data visualization.

    Feb 25, 2016

  • Senate Confirms Robert Califf as New FDA Chief

    STAT |  The new commissioner will face pressure to speed up drug approvals without compromising safety, and his critics will keep their eyes on him.

    Feb 25, 2016

  • Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Awards Winners Announced

    Clinical Informatics News | The winners of the Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Awards were announced on Wednesday at the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives, SCOPE, in Miami, Fla. Prizes were awarded to Science 37 with LA BioMed, Massachusetts General Hospital and Prize4Life, and Clincierge.

    Feb 24, 2016

  • Oscar Health Raises $400 Million As It Expands to New States

    Forbes |  Fidelity led the new funding round for Oscar Health, whose effort to build a new health insurance business from the ground up is expanding from New York to New Jersey, Texas, and California.

    Feb 23, 2016

  • DrugDev to Launch Site Activation Module

    Clinical Informatics News | DrugDev will announce the new module for its cloud-based DrugDev technology platform this Wednesday at the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives, SCOPE, in Miami, Fla.

    Feb 22, 2016