• Mobile Health at the Global Pediatric Innovation Summit

    Clinical Informatics News | At Boston Children's Hospital's second annual Global Pediatric Innovation Summit, a panel discussion on mobile and digital health took an optimistic, even futurist stance to the promise of technology, but also stressed the role of changing the culture of care providers in implementing real improvements.

    Nov 3, 2014

  • Shredding Paper, Saving Cash: Going Digital with a Cloud-Based eTMF

    Clinical Informatics News | Contributed Commentary | Adopting an electronic trial master file for collaborative clinical trials will be increasingly important for maintaining regulatory compliance in a cost-effective and timely manner — but also requires careful thinking about standard frameworks for use across trial stakeholders.

    Oct 30, 2014

  • Should Wealthy Patients Buy Their Own Clinical Trials?

    Mosaic Science | Author Alexander Masters delves into the legal and ethical obstacles to a plan for funding high-risk, rare-indication clinical trials: let the ultra-rich suffering from rare diseases fund trials that they or their loved ones can participate in.

    Oct 29, 2014

  • The Case Against Surrogate Endpoints

    MedPage Today | John Fauber and Elbert Chu examine the pharmaceutical industry's growing reliance on surrogate endpoints, like "progression-free survival," to gain approval of new drugs.

    Oct 27, 2014

  • ClinGen Opens Patient Portal for Genomic Health Information

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The NIH-funded consortium ClinGen has partnered with Geisinger Health System to launch GenomeConnect, an online portal where patients who have undergone genetic testing can share their health histories anonymously with researchers and other, similar patients.

    Oct 24, 2014

  • Digital Signatures and Identities Fuel Collaboration

    Clinical Informatics News | As the biopharmaceutical industry turns to large, multimember collaborations through the cloud, digital signatures are becoming an essential security and authentication measure, creating a need for new global standards.

    Oct 23, 2014

  • 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