• Oscar Is Testing Whether the ACA Markets Open a Space for Health Insurance Startups

    Bloomberg | With $230 million in the bank, Oscar has succeeded in enrolling 40,000 patients in its insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act markets, with popular features like medical bill analyses and doctor-patient connectors — but so far, the startup is running a steep loss.

    Sep 4, 2015

  • Scripps Enrolls 4000+ in Scanadu Trial of Device for Vital Signs

    Xconomy |  In the five years since it was founded, Mountain View, CA-based Scanadu has been blessed with a groundswell of support from some pretty diverse groups.

    Sep 3, 2015

  • August Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical news and new products from around the industry, including population sequencing studies at the Inova Translational Medicine Institute and clinical validation for multi-gene panels in breast and ovarian cancer.

    Sep 3, 2015

  • England Approves First eConsent for Clinical Trial

    Clinical Informatics News  | Mytrus is conducting what it believes is the first electronic informed consent for a clinical trial in England. Its software platform for electronic informed consent has received approval from the Health Research Authority (HRA), a division of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS).

    Sep 1, 2015

  • HoneyInsured Launching Data-Driven Insurance Brokerage

    Forbes |  HoneyInsured wants to make signing up for insurance just another quick task, promising to cut the process down to five minutes while fanning out beyond the ACA exchanges.

    Aug 28, 2015

  • MSK Releases Data from Clinical Trial It Calls 'The Future of Precision Medicine'

    FierceBiotech | Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have published the results of a Phase II trial to extend the indications for cancer therapy Zelboraf, in a "basket trial" protocol that divides patients by key biomarkers rather than broad disease types.

    Aug 26, 2015

  • Walgreens To Open New Clinics Staffed Owned By Hospital Partners

    Forbes | In a new twist on its retail health clinic model, Walgreens says it will open up to 25 new retail clinics in Oregon and Washington states that will be owned and operated by a Seattle-based health system.

    Aug 25, 2015

  • Katrina Shut Down Charity Hospital But Led To More Primary Care

    NPR.org | In a surprising improvement, access to primary care in New Orleans has improved since Katrina, even after much of the city's medical infrastructure collapsed. There are still holes, though, for mental health care and the poor.

    Aug 24, 2015

  • Rare Genomics Institute Announces Technology Winners

    Clinical Informatics News | Yesterday, the Rare Genomics (RG) Institute announced the winners of the 2015 BeHEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries) science challenge, a global competition that offers technology tools to rare disease researchers. Tools and technology were provided by Jackson Lab, Taconic Biosciences, Tute Genomics, Cypher Genomics, Maverix Biomics, Biovista, and more.

    Aug 20, 2015

  • Early Reports Back on Trials Focusing on Driving Mutations

    TIME | The brain cancer patient featured on the March cover of TIME is cancer-free, thanks to a clinical trial methodology researchers called a "basket trial". In a follow up article, TIME recounts her progress and Rather than group cancers by tissue of origin, the trial grouped 122 cancer patients by driving mutation, then tested drugs thought to target those mutations.

    Aug 20, 2015