• FDA taps PatientsLikeMe to test the waters of social media adverse event reporting

    mobihealthnews | PatientsLikeMe has announced a research partnership with the FDA: The agency will assess the platform's feasibility as a way to generate adverse event reports, which the FDA uses to regulate drugs after their release into the market.

    Jun 16, 2015

  • The Confidential Reasons Drugs Are Rejected by the FDA

    Clinical Informatics News | The FDA has published a study to assess whether its reasons for rejecting drugs and medical devices — currently kept confidential unless the sponsors of trials choose to release them — are effectively reaching the public, concluding that there are stark discrepancies between what the FDA tells companies about their products and what those companies report in public.

    Jun 15, 2015

  • Foundation Medicine Connects Mutations, Treatment Plans for Personalized Care

    Clinical Informatics News | Foundation Medicine has launched PatientMatch, a tool to connect doctors who are treating patients with similar rare genetic mutations. At Sarah Cannon Research Institute, physicians are finding it useful for connecting patients to the right drug trials as well.

    Jun 12, 2015

  • Stanford Pharmacovigilance Program Suggests New Drug Risks

    Washington Post | A project by scientists at Stanford University to monitor a large set of electronic health records has uncovered a probable link between extended use of proton pump inhibitors, including Nexium and Prilosec, and an increased risk of heart attack.

    Jun 11, 2015

  • May Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical news and product briefs from around the industry, including a HIPAA-compliant email system from Virtru and a study of crowdfunding in rare hereditary disease initiatives.

    Jun 1, 2015

  • Amplifying the Patient Voice

    Clinical Informatics News | PatientsLikeMe has built the data structure of its social network on the “patient voice,” the language patients use to describe their own symptoms and experience. That has opened up new discoveries about chronic disease, but translating this patient vocabulary into formal clinical taxonomies is a challenge for the whole industry.

    May 29, 2015

  • Eric Topol's Predictions for Medicine's Next 20 Years

    Medscape | As Medscape marks its 20th year in online medical publishing, Editor-in-Chief Eric Topol makes his predictions for the next 20 years in medicine.

    May 28, 2015