• 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

  • Notes from the Medical Informatics World Conference in Boston

    Clinical Informatics World | The fourth annual Medical Informatics World Conference met this Monday and Tuesday in Boston, with discussions of interoperability in health record systems, designing a smart research environment in the hospital, and the surprising care insights to be found in population-scale patient data.

    Apr 6, 2016

  • The Diversity Problem: Making Clinical Trials Work for Everyone

    Clinical Informatics News | Twenty-three years after the National Institutes of Health created the Revitalization Act to increase the number of women and minorities in medical research, these groups remain vastly underrepresented in clinical trials. But, after all these years, a cure may finally be prescribed.

    Mar 31, 2016

  • March Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | The latest announcements and product launches from around the industry, including new partnerships in China's Precision Medicine Initiative, and networking technology for clinical trials from HealthCarePoint and ACRES.

    Mar 31, 2016

  • Technology for Patient-Centric Clinical Trials Wins for Science 37

    Clinical Informatics News | 2016 Best Practices Awards | Science 37, a two-year old startup based in Culver City, California, was formed by experienced clinicians determined to re-imagine and bring disruptive change to the inefficient clinical trial process. The clinical trials-savvy judges agreed with this assessment and named Science 37 one of the winners of the 2016 Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Awards.

    Mar 25, 2016