• 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

  • FDA Finalizes Guidance on Safety Data Collection for Late-Stage and Postapproval Trials

    RAPS |  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday significantly revised and finalized guidance originally released in 2012 that will help industry understand what types of safety data needs to be collected in late-stage premarket and postapproval clinical investigations.

    Feb 18, 2016

  • One-Third of Clinical Trial Results Never Disclosed

    Bloomberg |  One-third of clinical trials conducted at 51 major U.S. universities and academic hospitals were never published in a peer-reviewed journal or in a government registry online, according to a new study in the BMJ.

    Feb 18, 2016

  • The Cloud in Clinical Care

    Clinical Informatics News | First results from the Intensive Trial of OMics in Cancer (ITOMIC) were published last month in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2016;14:8-17). For the first published patient, 32 researchers from 14 institutions took part in evaluation.

    Feb 17, 2016

  • A Los Angeles Hospital Is Paralyzed by a Ransomware Attack

    The Atlantic |  A cyberattack in Los Angeles has left doctors locked out of patient records for more than a week. Unless the medical facility pays a ransom, it's unclear that they'll get that information back.

    Feb 17, 2016

  • Researchers Take Aim at Metastatic Breast Cancer

    Wall Street Journal |  Activists say the deadliest form of breast cancer has gotten short shrift until now.

    Feb 16, 2016

  • Turmoil at Zenefits and Silicon Valley’s Big Problem with Health Care

    Washington Post |  The health insurance broker Zenefits, now going through an executive shakeup, is just one example of a company with a Silicon Valley mindset failing to meet health regulations.

    Feb 11, 2016

  • Illumina to Build Interpretation Tools for Genomics England

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Illumina and Genomics England announced a partnership today to develop a platform and knowledge base that can be used to improve and automate genome interpretation. The tools will operate within the Genomics England secure database to enable researchers and clinicians to access information and reports more readily.

    Feb 11, 2016

  • FDA clears BioGamings Microsoft Kinect-based physiotherapy software

    MobiHealthNews |  In another health application for Microsoft's Kinect platform, BioGaming has received FDA clearance for its YuGo Microsoft Kinect-based physical therapy system.

    Feb 10, 2016