• At Symphony Clinical, Research Comes Home

    Clinical Informatics News | Symphony Clinical Research, based in suburban Chicago, is distinguishing itself as one of the few providers of in-home clinical trial visits. As the clinical trial sector faces perpetual challenges with patient recruitment, retention, and compliance, being able to conduct a study visit in the home tackles some of these intractable issues, and may accelerate enrollment.

    May 27, 2015

  • Matching Patients to Trials with Watson

    Clinical Informatics News | Last fall, Mayo Clinic and IBM’s Watson group announced plans to use the Watson supercomputer to match Mayo oncology patients with the appropriate clinical trials. Earlier this month, Nicholas LaRusso, professor of medicine, biochemistry, and molecular biology at Mayo gave an update on the collaboration at the Clinical Research Informatics World event in Boston.

    May 26, 2015

  • CIOs can be lifesavers

    Clinical Informatics News | As precision medicine moves from the bench to the bedside in the coming months and years, CIOs will become a key link in the chain of people who help find cures and save lives. I call on you to learn about the technology and make a plan to adopt it. 

    May 22, 2015

  • New CLARITY Challenge Focuses on Answers to Undiagnosed Diseases

    Clinical Informatics News | Boston Children’s Hospital is launching CLARITY Undiagnosed, a $25,000 competition to identify molecular diagnoses for five families with as-yet undiagnosed conditions. The Challenge kicks off in conjunction with a documentary film tracing the journeys of the patients and—possibly—the teams. Teams have until June 11 to register.

    May 21, 2015

  • Trial Master File Survey Live

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The 2015 annual survey of the Trial Master File (TMF) Reference Model initiative is now live. The survey is designed to provide year-over-year insights from sponsors, CROs, inspectors, and trial sites, for both paper and electronic TMF management.

    May 14, 2015

  • Orexigen and Takeda Feud Over Cost of a Controversial Diet Drug Trial

    WSJ | Amid accusations the drug maker misled investors and patients about the safety of its drug, Orexigen Therapeutics is now feuding with Takeda Pharmaceutical, its marketing partner, over the cost of a clinical trial that was required by the FDA.

    May 14, 2015

  • ERT Completes Acquisition of PHT

    Clinical Informatics News | ERT on Monday completed its acquisition of PHT Corporation. The acquisition was first announced in late February. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

    May 13, 2015

  • Six new health-related initiatives for IBM’s Watson

    mobihealthnews | Since IBM launched its Watson Health business unit last month, the company has been busy, announcing a flurry of partnerships and deployments of its cognitive computing software in different sectors of the healthcare industry.

    May 11, 2015

  • LifeMap Reports User-Engagement Findings from ResearchKit App

    Clinical Informatics News |Two months after announcing their first app built on Apple’s ResearchKit platform, LifeMap Solutions is sharing some of the earliest user-engagement findings from their Asthma Health app, a personalized tool that helps participants gain greater insight into their asthma, adhere to treatment plans, avoid triggers, and take charge of their health. The findings were published on the ResearchKit blog.

    May 8, 2015

  • Speakers at the Medical Informatics World Conference Address a Changing Health IT Landscape

    Clinical Informatics News | Over two days at the 2015 Medical Informatics World Conference in Boston, keynote speakers including American Medical Association President-elect Steven Stack, CIO Stephen Warren of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and CIO John Halamka of Beth Israel Deaconess addressed the rapid transformations in health IT, from opportunities like near-universal EHR adoption and mobile and telehealth, to obstacles like poorly designed quality metrics and growing cybersecurity threats.

    May 8, 2015