• What You Need To Know About FDA’s Clinical Outcome Assessment Compendium

    Clinical Leader |  One of the goals of CDER is to foster patient-focused drug development. As part of that effort, the agency has published a compendium of clinical outcome assessments (COAs) to promote the use of patient-focused outcome measurement in drug development.

    Feb 10, 2016

  • HIMSS Assesses Senate Bill to Improve Electronic Health Records

    Information Management | As the Senate debates a bill intended to support the security and interoperability of HIT systems, the Health Information and Management Systems Society considers the draft legislation's proposals.

    Feb 8, 2016

  • Watson the Pediatrician

    Clinical Informatics News | IBM Watson Health and Boston Children’s Hospital have created a joint venture to apply Watson’s cognitive platform to help BCH clinicians diagnose and treat rare pediatric diseases.

    Feb 5, 2016

  • Big Pharma Spending Big to Push Patients to Take Their Meds

    STAT |  The drug industry loses tens of billions in global sales each year when patients don't fill or refill prescriptions. It's out to change that.

    Feb 4, 2016

  • Best Practices Finalists Announced

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical Informatics News today announced ten finalists in its 2016 Best Practices Awards. Three of the finalists will be named winners at SCOPE, the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives in Miami, Florida, on February 24.

    Feb 4, 2016

  • The Startup Tracking ‘Valuable’ Doctors for Big Pharma

    Bloomberg |  Zephyr Health says it can determine the value of a doctor's prescription pad.

    Feb 3, 2016

  • January Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | The latest products and announcements from around the industry, including wearable data in clinical trials for Parkinson's, and a new global service for post-marketing studies.

    Jan 29, 2016

  • Commonwealth Informatics to Provide Software for FDA Drug Safety Programs

    Clinical Informatics News | The FDA has entered a partnership with Commonwealth Informatics, a healthcare analytics company based in Waltham, Mass., to create a platform for reviewing adverse events in new drug applications and postmarket surveillance studies.

    Jan 28, 2016

  • FDA Unveils Draft Guidance for Medical Device Interoperability

    FierceHealthIT |  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday unveiled draft guidance it hopes the medical device industry will follow for including interoperability in the design and development of such tools.

    Jan 27, 2016

  • Massachusetts AG Calls on Gilead to Lower Price of Hepatitis C Medicines

    Boston Globe |  Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey warned that lawyers in her office are looking into bringing a commercial conduct complaint against the drug maker over its pricing of Sovaldi and Harvoni.

    Jan 27, 2016

  • Cedars-Sinai to use Fitbits in small trial of cancer patients

    MobiHealthNews |  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is embarking on a small study to see if a Fitbit Charge HR can help oncologists assess whether their patients are active enough for chemotherapy.

    Jan 22, 2016

  • How Hospitals Are Adapting to Apple's HealthKit

    STAT |  More hospitals are experimenting with using iPhone apps and mobile technologies to track patients' health at home, but the logistics of who receives this information and what they do with it are still uncertain.

    Jan 21, 2016

  • FDA Recommends Steps for Protection of Medical Devices from Cyber Attacks

    Clinical Informatics News | The FDA is releasing a draft guidance to clarify what responsibilities medical device manufacturers have to maintain cybersecurity after their devices have been sold and placed in hospitals.

    Jan 20, 2016

  • The Prospects for FHIR

    Forbes |  FHIR, an interoperability standard for health data based on a universal API, is becoming a major battleground in the fight to get vendors and healthcare providers to share patient data smoothly and efficiently.

    Jan 19, 2016

  • F.D.A. Faulted for Problems With Drug Tracking

    The New York Times |  The system the Food and Drug Administration uses to keep data on drugs after they have come to market is incomplete, outdated and often inaccurate, federal investigators said.

    Jan 15, 2016