• April Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | The latest announcements and product releases from around the industry, including a major data sharing initiative for BRCA testing, and LifeMap Solutions' tailored service for smartphone-enabled research studies.

    Apr 27, 2016

  • Augmedix 'Rehumanizing’ Doctor Patient Relations Using Google Glass

    TechCrunch |  Augmedix, creator of a Google Glass platform for doctors to interact with medical data in real time, raised an additional $17 million this week.

    Apr 26, 2016

  • Sequencing Predicts Cancer Vaccine's Outcomes

    Clinical Informatics News | A new study by UCLA researchers demonstrates the use of next generation sequencing to predict survival of brain cancer patients treated with a cancer vaccine. The vaccine, an autologous dendritic cell therapy called DCVax-L, is under development by Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc., of Bethesda, Md., for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). It is designed to activate the adaptive immune system, including T lymphocytes (T cells).

    Apr 25, 2016

  • FDA and WHO Warn About Clinical Trials Run by an Indian Company

    STAT |  An investigation into Semler Research Center in Bangalore has uncovered "manipulation of at least five studies over an extended period of time."

    Apr 25, 2016

  • Human Longevity, AstraZeneca DNA Sample Deal from Clinical Trials

    Clinical Informatics News  Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI), has announced a 10-year deal with AstraZeneca to sequence and analyze up to 500,000 DNA samples from AstraZeneca clinical trials. The genomic insights from the collaboration will be added to the HLI Knowledgebase.

    Apr 22, 2016

  • Clincierge’s White Glove Style Boosts Patient Retention

    Clinical Informatics News | 2016 Best Practices Awards | Retaining patients in clinical trials is notoriously difficult, and if those trials are for rare diseases, retention is even tougher. That’s where Clincierge comes in. Their efforts to improve patient retention with patient concierge services grabbed the attention of the judges of the 2016 Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Awards.

    Apr 21, 2016

  • Bluebird Bio Gene Therapy Shows Early Promise in Fatal Childhood Brain Disease

    TheStreet |  Bluebird bio has released interim data from its Phase 2/3 trial of its gene therapy Lenti-D, which suggests the approach may be comparably effective to bone marrow transplant for children with the rare disease cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy.

    Apr 20, 2016

  • Bioclinica, ArisGlobal Announce Partnership

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Bioclinica has chosen ArisGlobal’s Safety Cloud as the preferred safety platform for its pharmacovigilance services; Bioclinica will become the preferred partner for ArisGlobal in business process consulting and change management as sponsors implement or upgrade ARISg.

    Apr 19, 2016

  • ICGCmed launches today will link genomics to clinical information and health

    MedicalXpress |  The International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) announced plans to launch the International Cancer Genome Consortium for Medicine (ICGCmed), a new phase in the Consortium's evolution that will link genomics to clinical information and health. By linking the ICGC data with clinical information, ICGCmed aims to accelerate the movement of this information into the clinic to guide prevention, early detection, diagnosis and prognosis.

    Apr 19, 2016

  • Cleveland Clinic American Well to provide CVS MinuteClinic customers with access to video visits

    MobiHealthNews |  Cleveland Clinic providers will now offer online and mobile video visits to CVS Minute Clinic customers in Ohio. The partnership is powered by American Well's video visits offering. American Well previously partnered with CVS and Cleveland Clinic in separate deals.

    Apr 14, 2016

  • 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