• Wearables: Medidata’s Next Horizon

    February 17, 2015 | As clinical trials become more patient-centric, Medidata sees the next horizon for collecting clinical trial data as the patient’s own wearable device. Medidata has announced a new collaboration with Garmin International to use its mHealth wristband—the vivofit—in clinical studies.

    Feb 17, 2015

  • What Exchange Plans Can Learn From Medicare’s Star Population Management

    Clinical Informatics News | The Affordable Care Act has not, to date, measurably impacted the affordability health insurance or health outcomes. As healthcare becomes more consumer-driven, the industry should take a look at how the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS) has used the 5-Star Rating program for Medicare plans to improve these two metrics. 

    Feb 12, 2015

  • Scripps wins USAID grant to monitor Ebola patients with medical wearables

    mobihealthnews | The Scripps Translational Science Institute is creating a program to use health sensors to improve the health outcomes of Ebola patients.

    Feb 12, 2015

  • Invoa Health System to Deploy GenoSpace Population Analytics

    Clinical Informatics News | GenoSpace this morning announced that the Inova Health System has selected GenoSpace Population Analytics to support its whole-genome sequencing initiative. The Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI), a division of Inova Health System, has sequenced more than 8,000 genomes from individuals representing more than 100 countries.

    Feb 11, 2015

  • Digital Utopia, Meet the Null Hypothesis

    Clinical Informatics News | Two very different worlds collide as the age of big data and patient generated bio-signal gets underway. Of all the many difficulties to be overcome before the benefits of big data analytics and patient generated data can be attained, this imminent clash of cultures may be the most profound.

    Feb 10, 2015

  • Medical Informatics World Preview: Patient-Reported Data and IT Security

    Clinical Informatics News | Marcia Nazzari and Timothy Vaughan of PatientsLikeMe, and Chief Information Officer Anne Lara of Union Hospital, offer an early peek at some of the topics they'll be discussing at the Medical Informatics World Conference in Boston this May.

    Feb 9, 2015

  • Margaret Hamburg to Resign as FDA Commissioner

    Clinical Informatics News | The White House will announce tomorrow that Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration since 2009, is stepping down. Hamburg has led the agency through hugely consequential changes to its powers and regulatory authority over one of the longest terms as commissioner in FDA history.

    Feb 5, 2015

  • January Clinical News Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | News and product releases from around the industry, including new analysis technology for Sequenom's non-invasive prenatal tests and Oracle's automated medication adherence tracker.

    Feb 3, 2015

  • A New Initiative on Precision Medicine

    New England Journal of Medicine | Francis Collins and Harold Varmus discuss the President's Personalized Medicine Initiative.

    Jan 30, 2015

  • New FDA Powers, Responsibilities in Draft 21st Century Cures Act

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The House Committee on Commerce and Energy has published a draft version of the 21st Century Cures Act, a sweeping bill containing numerous changes to the FDA's powers to review and approve drugs and medical devices.

    Jan 28, 2015

  • Drug Prices Rose Across Classes in 2014

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | This week the Truveris National Drug Index released its first full year figures. In 2014, generic and specialty drugs combined rising 10.9%. Brand drug prices spiked 14.8%, while specialty drug prices jumped 9.7%. Generics, historically intended to curb costs, are contributing to prescription price inflation, increasing 4.9% last year. 

    Jan 28, 2015

  • In Defense Department's Health IT Overhaul, a Crossroads for American Healthcare

    Clinical Informatics News | As the Department of Defense considers bids to replace its legacy EHR system with a modernized solution, it stands to create the nation's largest interconnected health IT system. That could have big repercussions for the future of EHR interoperability, population health, and coordinated care in the military and across the country.

    Jan 27, 2015