• Review Board Shares Insight Into GSK's Trial Transparency Program

    Clinical Informatics News | With patient-level data from over 1200 clinical trials at nine pharma companies now available through the GlaxoSmithKline-founded data sharing portal, the review board tasked with approving data access for researchers has published its initial thoughts on the system.

    Oct 21, 2014

  • Foundation Medicine Wins Insurance Coverage at Priority Health

    Clinical Informatics News | Foundation Medicine, provider of the FoundationOne tests for cancer mutations, has announced an agreement with Michigan-based insurer Priority Health to cover both of the company's flagship tests.

    Oct 17, 2014

  • Investigating Physician Satisfaction with EHRs

    Medical Economics | A survey of physicians finds that, despite widely aired concerns that electronic health records are interfering with clinical practice, a slight majority feel their patient care has benefited from implementing an electronic records system.

    Oct 16, 2014

  • Google Pilots Medical Consults as Search Results

    Wired | A limited pool of users who search for medical symptoms on Google are now being offered the option to speak with health professionals in live video chats.

    Oct 14, 2014

  • Massachusetts Healthcare Price Comparisons Go Live

    CommonHealth | Two years after passage of a Massachusetts law requiring private health insurers to publicly display the prices for healthcare services they negotiate with care centers, all of the state's major insurers have complied.

    Oct 9, 2014

  • EHR Data as Court Evidence

    Government Health IT | A legal analysis in the Ave Maria Law Review suggests that data contained in electronic health records would be inadmissible in court, as its reliability could be compromised by misaligned incentives.

    Oct 8, 2014

  • Challenging Traditional Clinical Data Review Models

    Clinical Informatics News | Contributed Commentary | The move away from 100% source data verification is not only shaping up to be a major driver of efficiency in clinical trials, it is also increasingly within reach for even smaller sponsors and CROs thanks to experience identifying key data points and new visualization tools to spot trends in the source data.

    Oct 7, 2014

  • EMR Fault in U.S. Ebola Case?

    Bloomberg | It has now been widely reported that an oversight in Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital's electronic medical record system contributed to the discharge without a diagnosis of the U.S. patient later diagnosed with the ebola virus, but policy experts note that human error should also be considered a factor.

    Oct 6, 2014

  • EMA Makes Concessions to Transparency Advocates Over Release of Clinical Study Reports

    PharmaTimes | The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has finalized its policy on clinical study transparency, following an April vote of the European Union to require all clinical trial results to be openly published.

    Oct 3, 2014

  • September Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | News and product releases from around the industry, including the ATHENA study of Alport syndrome, and a customizable patient portal for results from genome sequencing.

    Oct 2, 2014

  • Personal Attention for Regular Hospital Visitors

    Kaiser Health News | The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers is conducting a long-term clinical trial to test whether giving personal "coaching" attention to the heaviest users of hospital systems will reduce readmissions and improve patient wellbeing.

    Oct 1, 2014

  • Big Results for Perjeta are Big Boost for Personalized Medicine

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The CLEOPATRA study, which began recruitment in 2008 for an 800-patient clinical trial of the antibody therapy Perjeta in breast cancer, has just released its results, showing an incredible survival gain of nearly 16 months.

    Sep 29, 2014