• 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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