• September Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical news and product releases from around the industry, including an electronic health monitoring partnership between a pharmacy and senior center, and an app for comparing medication prices.

    Sep 30, 2015

  • The Non-Negotiable Cost of Drugs

    Clinical Informatics News | Contributed Commentary | This month’s controversy surrounding Turing Pharmaceutical’s CEO Martin Shkreli’s attempt to raise the price of Daraprim by more than 5,000% was met with such outrage from payers, patients and pundits Shrkeli was forced to back off the increase. The Daraprim episode is the latest and most striking in the new “war on drugs.” The war is no longer defined as an offensive against illegal narcotics, but one against pharmaceutical companies and the increasing costs of specialty drugs.

    Sep 29, 2015

  • Cycle Times Increasing Thanks to Start-Up Lag

    Clinical Informatics News | Despite a trend toward shorter clinical trial cycle times, recent data analysis asserts that Phase II/III cycles have actually increased.

    Sep 24, 2015

  • The Life of a Clinical-Trial Guinea Pig

    The Atlantic |  What it's like to earn a living as a research subject in clinical trials.

    Sep 23, 2015

  • Will IBM’s Watson Identify Patients For Your Next Trial

    Clinical Leader |  Will ICON and IBM succeed in revolutionizing clinical trial recruitment and start-up times? Both companies certainly hope so. Last week the two announced they are working together to connect patients to relevant clinical trials.

    Sep 16, 2015

  • Robert Califf Could Transform The FDA The Right Way

    Forbes |  People who care about making sure that medicines and medical devices are safe and effective should be cheering the nomination of Robert Califf to be the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and any senators who slow his path to the job he deserves should be accused of the basest kind of partisanship.

    Sep 16, 2015

  • Clinical Recruitment Platforms Makes Use of Social Media

    Clinical Informatics News A new clinical recruitment platform enables patients to quickly search local clinical trials while allowing sponsors, CROs, and pharma to recruit trial patients and track test site performance in real time.

    Sep 14, 2015

  • GoBalto Announces Two-Year Partnership With SCRS

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Earlier this week, goBalto announced a two-year partnership with the Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS), the globe trade organization fully dedicated to representing the interests of clinical research sites. Under the agreement, goBalto will participate as a Global Impact Partner (GIP), a relationship designed to facilitate critical dialogue between industry stakeholders and clinical research sites.

    Sep 11, 2015

  • 'No Matter Where' Documents Rise and Challenges of Health Information Exchanges

    Clinical Informatics News | When Kevin Johnson, a pediatrician at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, helped set up a health information exchange in Memphis, his experience with patients there led him to produce a film chronicling the need for these exchanges, the obstacles they face, and how health systems make them work.

    Sep 9, 2015

  • Ten Women-Led Healthcare Technology Companies to Watch

    Forbes | At the intersection of tech and healthcare, female founders and CEOs are leading companies to success in fields from telehealth to medical devices to care and insurance strategies.

    Sep 9, 2015

  • What Are a Hospital's Costs?

    New York Times |  Efforts at the University of Utah Health Care System to quantify the precise costs of procedures have seen costs decline year over year, and inspired similar projects at other hospitals.

    Sep 8, 2015