• Small Mayo Clinic study finds health app helps cardiac rehab patients lose more weight

    MobiHealthNews |  Cardiac rehabilitation patients who used a health app lost more weight following a heart attack than those who went through cardiac rehabilitation without one, according to a small Mayo Clinic study that will be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session in Chicago next week.

    Mar 25, 2016

  • Researchers Find Uses for Open Access Trial Databases

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical trials made publicly available are not being used to validate primary results, researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute have found. In three open access clinical trial databases, only 15.5% of the public data have been requested, and research proposals focused on epidemiological studies, subgroup analyses, analyses of the disease state, or predictors of treatment response, instead of confirmatory studies.

    Mar 23, 2016

  • Nicholas Marko on Clinical Care, Health IT

    HealthBlawg | As part of his ongoing series of conversations with medical informatics experts, David Harlow at HealthBlawg  talks with Nicholas Marko, Chief Data Officer at Geisinger Health System about the points of contact between clinical care and health IT.

    Mar 22, 2016

  • Apple taps 23andMe to bring genetic data into ResearchKit

    MobiHealthNews |  At the same time as it announced CareKit, Apple announced in a press release that ResearchKit would be updated to more easily make use of users' genetic data, via a module designed by consumer genetics company 23andMe. Apple also added other modules for common medical tests to ResearchKit.

    Mar 22, 2016

  • Geisinger Health System and UC Berkeley Collide

    Clinical Informatics News | The Collider Project between UC Berkeley and Geisinger Health allows students to collaborate with an industry partner on data blending. 

    Mar 17, 2016

  • A Peek at Our Agendas for Medical Informatics World

    Clinical Informatics News | The Medical Informatics World Conference returns to the Boston Seaport this year, running just before Bio-IT World and featuring a host of excellent speakers and presentations. Here are some of the sessions we have flagged.  

    Mar 17, 2016

  • 21 clinical trials that are using Fitbit activity trackers right now

    MobiHealthNews |  Consumer activity trackers are inexpensive, user friendly, and reasonably accurate, so it's not surprising that as their public profile has grown, so have the number of researchers using them in clinical trials. We did a search of ClinicalTrials.gov for "Fitbit" -- just one of the activity trackers out there, but one of the most popular and high profile -- and found a surprising number of in-progress trials. 

    Mar 17, 2016

  • Physician-Patient Collaboration: Dr. Danny Sands

    HealthBlawg |  Health doesn't happen in the doctor's office. Now more than ever, patients and physicians must collaborate on care that exists between visits. Danny Sands, a Harvard physician and a speaker at the upcoming Medical Informatics World conference discusses collaborative care.

    Mar 15, 2016

  • Fatal Mistakes

    Vox | Preventable medical errors are a common cause of death in the United States. Being involved in one can also do serious, even irreparable, harm to caregivers.

    Mar 15, 2016

  • Seven Tips to Use Social and Digital Media to Recruit and Engage with Clinical Trial Patients

    Clinical Informatics News Contributed Commentary | Social and digital media are important tools for reaching various patient populations. CROs are increasingly seeing the value of these mediums for recruiting patients and engaging with them during clinical studies. Social media can be more cost effective when compared to other advertising channels such as TV, newspaper, and radio ads because of its ability to more narrowly target an audience of interest.

    Mar 11, 2016

  • Unified Approaches to Rare Disease Research

    Clinical Informatics News | Rare Disease Day aims to increase awareness of rare diseases and their impact on patients, families, and medical professionals, hundreds of organizations are helping doctors find diagnoses and sufferers find solace. But, for a majority of the 350 million rare disease victims worldwide, hope is elusive and cures are as rare as the illnesses from which they suffer.

    Mar 8, 2016

  • DrugDev, Exostar Link Global Identifiers

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | DrugDev and Exostar yesterday announced they will combine Exostar’s identity credential with the DrugDev Golden Number, linking their unique global identifiers for clinical operations personnel and facilities.

    Mar 3, 2016

  • Sage Bionetworks releases data from first six months of Parkinsons mPower ResearchKit study

    MobiHealthNews |  Sage Bionetworks, a nonprofit biomedical research organization that developed the ResearchKit app mPower, has announced that it will release the first six months of data from the app. mPower, a Parkinson's-focused app, was one of the first five ResearchKit studies announced at Apple's launch of the kit in March 2015.

    Mar 3, 2016