• 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

  • 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