• HIMSS Sessions Discuss Strategies for Addressing the Opportunities and Challenges of Big Data

    Clinical Informatics News | CHICAGO—Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta had a problem. Research on neonates had shown that the higher the decibel level in the ICU, the longer the length of stay. Michael Thompson, vice president of business intelligence and data architecture at CHOA, discussed how he dealt with the problem at HIMSS. 

    Apr 27, 2015

  • April Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | News items and new products from around the industry, including Apple ResearchKit going open source, BaseHealth's enterprise launch, and the first full implementation of DrugDev's SiteCloud.

    Apr 27, 2015

  • Smartwatches in the EHR Ecosystem

    Wall Street Journal | As electronic health record providers continue to explore ways that mobile devices could be integrated with patient information, one company plugged into the iPhone network is intrigued by the possibilities presented by the Apple Watch.

    Apr 16, 2015

  • IBM Sees Opportunities in Care Management with Watson Health

    Computerworld | After years of experiments using its Watson cognitive computing technology in medical settings, IBM announced this week the creation of a Watson Health business unit that will provide new capabilities in intelligent monitoring of patients' health data to flexibly improve care.

    Apr 15, 2015

  • Genomics and the Ice Bucket Challenge: ALS Research After the Meme

    Clinical Informatics News | If you were wondering what good all that icy water did, the ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced yesterday that it has enrolled the 100th patient in its Precision Medicine Program (PMP) thanks to a surge of interest and money from the Ice Bucket Challenge.

    Apr 15, 2015

  • High Rate of Vendor Turnover in Test EHR Program for Meaningful Use

    Health Data Management | Epic and Cerner are the latest electronic health record providers to join the Designated Test EHR Program for hospitals attesting to their ability to share information with outside systems, as vendors have departed and been replaced.

    Apr 9, 2015

  • Intralinks and Wingspan Collaborate to Integrate

    Clinical Informatics News | Keeping certain documents under the control of the investigator is a basic tenet of clinical trials and built in to the new collaboration between Intralinks and Wingspan Technology. The purpose of the collaboration is to develop an integration between the Intralinks’ electronic investigator site file (eISF) and Wingspan’s electronic trial master file (eTMF).

    Apr 8, 2015

  • April News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | News and product briefs from Medidata, QIAGEN, GoBalto, and more.

    Apr 3, 2015

  • Phase 0 Trials Test Drug Effects on Rare Tumors

    Clinical Informatics News | The Phoenix-based Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Barrow Neurological Institute at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center are undertaking innovative Phase 0 trials, incorporating drug candidates, surgery, and genomic sequencing to test new therapies to treat glioblastoma brain tumors.

    Apr 2, 2015