• Patient community to help study effect of wearables peer support for CHF patients

    mobihealthnews | Mountain View, California-based Amiigo, which makes an activity tracker, has teamed up with online patient community platform Alliance Health to launch a new study looking at the combined effect of wearables and peer support on heart failure patients. About 100 patients will participate in the pilot, which will last 90 days.

    May 6, 2015

  • The Future of Clinical Trial Feasibility and Patient Outreach

    Clinical Informatics News | Contributed Commentary | Researchers and clinical study managers have been dreaming for years of the day when a patient’s every experience with the healthcare system is aggregated in a network of interoperable Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). While we will not enjoy this ideal anytime soon, there is currently the potential to use a combination of data sources to support feasibility assessment and patient outreach for clinical research.

    May 5, 2015

  • HIMSS Exhibitors Display New Health IT Products

    Clinical Informatics News | CHICAGO--HIMSS 2015 filled the McCormick Place Convention Center, with several clinical-IT vendors highlighting new products on the trade show floor.

    Apr 30, 2015

  • FDA could approve drugs for new uses on less data draft law

    Reuters | A bill drafted by the House Energy & Commerce Committee's health panel would eliminate the need for randomized, controlled clinical trials, the gold standard for assessing whether a product is safe and effective.

    Apr 30, 2015

  • Making the Case for N-of-One Trials

    Nature News | Nicholas Schork argues for an industry-wide pivot to clinical trial designs that can adapt to patients' unique profiles and drug responses — whether through basket or umbrella trials, or by rethinking routine compassionate use and off-label therapy cases to be more readily aggregated across care centers.

    Apr 29, 2015

  • Video App Changes Trial Design, Planning

    Clinical Informatics News | A new cell phone app, intertwining professional qualitative and quantitative analysis with home video narratives of clinical and medical experiences, is helping pharmaceutical companies improve clinical trials by listening—literally—to patients’ own voices.

    Apr 28, 2015

  • Diagnostic-Maker Scanadu Lands $35M As FDA Submission Nears

    Xconomy | Scanadu, a Mountain View, CA-based startup that's making a diagnostic device it likens to Star Trek's famous Tricorders, has received $35 million of Series B funding.

    Apr 28, 2015

  • 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