• Diagnostic Errors Test the Promise and Limitations of HIT

    Diagnostics World | Following a recent report from the Institute of Medicine that concludes most Americans will receive at least one misdiagnosis in their lifetimes, Drs. Hardeep Singh and Mark Graber have published recommendations in the New England Journal of Medicine for reforms, both technological and cultural, to address the issue of diagnostic error.

    Nov 12, 2015

  • EMC hospital to pay $90000 over stolen laptop with medical data

    Computerworld |  Medical data security gets expensive. EMC and Hartford Hospital have agreed to pay $90,000 to Connecticut for the loss in 2012 of an unencrypted laptop containing patient information of 8,883 residents of the state, according to the state's attorney general.

    Nov 9, 2015

  • Seven Major Cancer Centers to Pool Genetic and Health Data

    Xconomy |  A consortium of cancer centers, aided by Sage Bionetworks, is hoping that sharing health records and genetic testing results will demonstrate a clinical benefit to exploratory sequencing in cancer cases.

    Nov 9, 2015

  • Platform Integration Can Boost Pharmacovigilance

    Clinical Informatics News | Contributed Commentary There’s been a lot of talk within the industry about how integrating electronic data capture (EDC) platforms used within the clinical research industry with platforms used to create, manage and store electronic health records (EHR) could benefit physicians, healthcare institutions and pharmaceutical companies. But there is an additional benefit that directly impacts improvements in patient safety that has been less noticed: how EDC/EHR integration can actually make existing drugs, therapeutics and medical devices safer for patients.

    Nov 9, 2015

  • Bluebird Gene Therapy Trial Shows Promising but Nuanced Results

    TheStreet |  Bluebird Bio has released new interim results from its clinical trial of LentiGlobin gene therapy for beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease, showing that it can wean patients off blood transfusions but that results are unexpectedly dependent on recipients' exact genotypes.

    Nov 5, 2015

  • Fixing The Healthcare Dichotomy

    TechCrunch |  Private industry and government alike are increasingly banking on APIs to resolve communication problems between electronic health records and other data silos in healthcare.

    Nov 4, 2015

  • Best Practices Call for Entries Open

    Clinical Informatics News | The third annual Clinical Informatics News Best Practices program is open for entries. The 2016 winners will be announced in February in Miami at the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives.

    Nov 4, 2015

  • October Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | News and product releases from around the industry, including a precision medicine project across Newfoundland and a partnership to connect rare disease patients with relevant physician experts.

    Oct 30, 2015

  • FDA Calls for Trial Technology Feedback

    Clinical Informatics News | The Food and Drug Administration made a public solicitation today for stakeholder feedback, “on the scope and direction of the use of technologies and innovative methods in the conduct of clinical investigations.”

    Oct 29, 2015

  • Enrollment Begins at UCSF in Study of Avelas Cancer Illuminator

    Xconomy |  San Diego's Avelas Biosciences says today that UC San Francisco has begun enrolling women who face breast cancer surgery in a clinical trial for AVB-620, a diagnostic agent that helps surgeons differentiate cancerous tissue from healthy in real time.

    Oct 29, 2015

  • Massive UK Baby Study Cancelled

    Nature News & Comment |  A UK plan to track 80,000 British babies throughout their lives has been cancelled 8 months after its loss. Loss prompts rethink about design of future cradle-to-grave studies.

    Oct 28, 2015

  • Russias Clinical Trial Approvals on the Rise

    Outsourcing Pharma |  The number of clinical trials given the green light in Russia has increased 13% in the third quarter of the year, which could be thanks in part to a reduction in red tape.

    Oct 27, 2015