• HHS Marks Goals for Alternative Payment Models

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell today published a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine outlining near-term goals for influencing the direction of U.S. healthcare.

    Jan 26, 2015

  • PHT Expands Rater Training Program

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | PHT Corporation is expanding its rater training program that it first launched in November.

    Jan 26, 2015

  • Bill is Introduced to Provide Added Exclusivity for Fixed-Dose Drugs

    WSJ | A bill was introduced in Congress last week that is designed to alleviate frustration drug makers have felt over a recent FDA guidance concerning fixed-dose combination drugs.

    Jan 26, 2015

  • EMA Recommends Hundreds of Drugs to be Suspended Over ‘Flawed Studies’

    WSJ | European regulators recommend suspending the sale of hundreds of drugs that were authorized for use across the continent based on "flawed" clinical studies that were conducted by GVK Biosciences, a clinical research organization based in India.

    Jan 23, 2015

  • GenoSpace Welcomes Aspera's CEO to Board

    Clinical Informatics News | GenoSpace announced this morning that Michelle Munson, CEO of Aspera, an IBM Company, has joined its board as an independent director.

    Jan 22, 2015

  • Obama cybersecurity plug boosts profile of healthcare data security

    Modern Healthcare | Ten years ago, President George W. Bush briefly mentioned electronic health records in a State of the Union address and the federal government is now in the midst of a multibillion dollar effort to promote the technology. Can the same thing happen with cybersecurity?

    Jan 22, 2015

  • QIAGEN Gets European Approval for Lung Cancer Liquid Biopsy

    Clinical Informatics News | QIAGEN’s circulating tumor DNA companion diagnostic for lung cancer has been granted CE-IVD marking in 30 European countries, the company announced. The diagnostic is designed as a companion for Astra Zeneca’s IRESSA for non-small cell lung cancer patients.

    Jan 21, 2015

  • Mayo Clinic moves to Epic

    Healthcare IT News | In the latest example of a world-class health system yanking its established electronic health record in favor of a blue chip vendor, Mayo Clinic is migrating to Epic.

    Jan 21, 2015

  • Sharing Older Clinical Trial Data Should be Judicious

    WSJ | Ida Sim, a professor of medicine and at the University of California, San Francisco and a member of an Institute of Medicine committee, discusses a new IOM report on sharing clinical trial data.

    Jan 21, 2015

  • FDA Guidance on Regulating Wellness Apps

    MobiHealthNews | FDA has published a draft guidance to help wellness device and app makers more clearly understand which products are subject to FDA regulation and which are not.

    Jan 20, 2015

  • The Use of eSource Software in Phase I Clinical Trials

    Clinical Informatics News | Contributed Commentary | Clinical trial design has become more complex and the demands of the regulators ever more stringent, but clinical automation tools can make life easier on both counts. Clinical automation is a centralised software tool implemented within a clinical unit that supports volunteer recruitment, automates workflow through an electronic trial design schedule, drives operations at the clinical floor, and enables study data to be captured electronically (eSource), streamlining the clinical process. It also enables high quality data to be shared online, in real time, with the sponsor.

    Jan 20, 2015

  • Gamifying Medication Adherence

    FiercePharmaMarketing | A study led by HealthPrize Technologies shows a boost in adherence to drug regiments for everything from acne to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease when patients are given points for engaging with mobile and digital health platforms.

    Jan 16, 2015

  • Institute of Medicine Urges Broader Sharing of Clinical Trial Data

    WSJ | In response to ongoing debate over access to clinical trial data, the Institute of Medicine has released a widely anticipated report that recommends government agencies and companies share data from research studies that they fund.

    Jan 15, 2015

  • The Future According to Topol

    Clinical Informatics News | Eric Topol is a Scripps Translational Science Institute cardiologist and self-professed technophile, but this is not just a book about technologies.  Rather The Patient Will See You Now argues that patient engagement and the end of medical paternalism are key components of 21st century healthcare.

    Jan 14, 2015

  • Shift in View of Health IT: Less Technology, More Care Delivery

    MobiHealthNews | Partners HealthCare's Center for Connected Health is moving from the IT group to the connected care group, a move that heralds a shift in vision of health IT from IT to care delivery.

    Jan 13, 2015

  • Verizon Changes Direction on Mobile Health Offerings

    MobiHealthNews | Verizon stopped offering its patient-to-provider Virtual Visits product in October and pulled its FDA-cleared mobile app.

    Jan 12, 2015

  • Foundation Medicine on the Added Value of NGS Cancer Tests

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Foundation Medicine of Cambridge, Mass., continues to make the case for expansive next-generation sequencing tests as the front line of cancer diagnostics, with a new publication in Clinical Cancer Research co-authored by members of the company and researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

    Jan 9, 2015