• EHR Progress Report

    Washington Post | Where do we stand on electronic health records? The goals that Presidents Bush and Obama set haven't been met, but maybe that's ok.

    Aug 8, 2014

  • Ebola and Sidestepping the Clinical Trial System

    Clinical Informatics News Roundup | The experimental Ebola drugs given to two US aid workers are presenting huge challenges for the clinical trial and drug approval infrastructure.

    Aug 7, 2014

  • The Data Sharing Landscape in Clinical Trials

    Clinical Informatics News | In 2003, The National Institutes of Health (NIH) reaffirmed its support for the concept of data sharing. Since then, competition is becoming collaboration, transparency is golden, and discovering cures may trump swelling market shares.

    Aug 6, 2014

  • Cerner Buys Siemens' Health IT Business

    Bloomberg | Cerner has agreed to buy Siemens' health IT unit for $1.3 billion.

    Aug 6, 2014

  • PDUFA and the Increase in Drug Withdrawals

    Pharmalot | A study published in Health Affairs has found that after the Prescription Drug User Fee Act was passed, the number of safety warnings and product withdrawals was higher than before.

    Aug 5, 2014

  • Medical Schools Beginning to Offer Clinical Informatics Fellowships

    Healthcare Informatics | Stanford Medicine has become the first school to offer an accredited fellowship program in clinical informatics, following the approval of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

    Aug 5, 2014

  • FDA Announces Plans to Regulate Laboratory Developed Tests

    Clinical Informatics News | On Thursday afternoon, the FDA announced that it plans, for the first time, to regulate laboratory developed tests in the same way it does other diagnostics. Clinical Informatics News looks at the proposed regulations and what comes next.

    Aug 1, 2014

  • EHRs Struggle to Exchange Data, Vendors and Providers Agree

    Bloomberg BNA | A workgroup centered on meaningful use guidelines for electronic health records has concluded that hospitals and providers have sharply limited ability to share patient records with one another.

    Jul 31, 2014

  • July Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinically relevant news and product releases from around the industry, including the rollout of the Open Medicine Institute's social health platform, and Oracle's new product suite for integrating clinical trial data.

    Jul 31, 2014

  • Eric Topol on the Medical Geographic Information System

    Clinical Informatics News | Individualized medical geographic information systems (GIS) are poised to transform medicine, says noted futurist Dr. Eric Topol, MD, director of the Translational Science Institute at Scripps Research Institute. The decreasing cost of next generation sequencing, and the increasing power and omnipresence of smartphones suggest that we as a society are moving from the “lab on a chip” world to the “lab in a body” world.

    Jul 31, 2014

  • Ugly Clinical Trials

    Matter | A two-part series at Matter looks at the underbelly of clinical trials: CROs that run most of their tests on homeless and mentally ill populations, and physicians who can no longer practice medicine, but still run trials.

    Jul 29, 2014

  • New Recruitment Company Lets Docs Refer Patients for Trials

    Clinical Informatics News | A new international company is attempting to match CROs and sponsor companies with investigators, clinical sites, and patients, help researchers save money, increase trial recruitment, and provide real-time data, all of which, it hopes, brings new therapies to market sooner.

    Jul 29, 2014

  • HIPAA vs the Age of Big Data

    Morning Consult | HIPAA was enacted in 1996, and it is causing some real challenges for health care groups as we move toward a more data-sharing, big data environment. Some are calling for a Congressional review of the act, but others think some questions should just be addressed.

    Jul 28, 2014

  • Cancer Research Groups Call for Change to EU Data Privacy Plans

    PharmaTimes | Cancer research groups are concerned about the informed consent language in the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, worrying it could impede cancer research.

    Jul 28, 2014

  • Establishing Baseline: Google's Next Big Project

    Wall Street Journal | Google's latest Google X project seeks to establish a medical baseline: a picture of what a healthy human looks like. For the Baseline Project, Google will collect fluid samples and genetic and molecular data--hundreds of data points--from anonymous patients without focusing on any disease area or condition.

    Jul 25, 2014