• Cleveland Clinic Partnership with CVS MinuteClinics is an Important Step for Telehealth

    Fast Company |  The major Ohio hospital has partnered with CVS's MinuteClinics and American Well to offer telehealth consults through walk-in clinics.

    Apr 14, 2016

  • Making the Most of Clinical Trial Data

    The New York Times |  Data from past clinical trials can be incredibly valuable but researchers rarely take advantage.

    Apr 13, 2016

  • 2015 An Important Year for Advancing Generic Drugs at FDA

    FDA Voice |  FDA's Office of Generic Drugs releases its first annual report outlining the highest number of generic drug approvals and tentative approvals ever.

    Apr 13, 2016

  • From Boutique Clinics to the Community Hospital: Precision Medicine at the Bio-IT World Conference

    Clinical Informatics News | In the closing plenary session of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last week in Boston, keynote speakers Yaron Turpaz of Human Longevity, Inc., Catherine Brownstein of Boston Children's Hospital, and Bill Evans of IBM Watson Health addressed the sticky question of how big data-driven healthcare can make the leap from high-priced luxury to standard practice.

    Apr 13, 2016

  • Heidi Rehm on Variant Validation, and Data Sharing

    Bio-IT World  | Making the case for industry-led standards and more open and transparent data sharing at the opening plenary session at last week’s Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Heidi Rehm, Ph.D., Director at Partners HealthCare Laboratory for Molecular Medicine and medical director at the Broad Institute Clinical Research Sequencing Platform, discussed the growing needs for improved clarity and consistency of genetic data for clinical and research purposes.

    Apr 12, 2016

  • Notes from the Medical Informatics World Conference in Boston

    Clinical Informatics World | The fourth annual Medical Informatics World Conference met this Monday and Tuesday in Boston, with discussions of interoperability in health record systems, designing a smart research environment in the hospital, and the surprising care insights to be found in population-scale patient data.

    Apr 6, 2016

  • 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