• PierianDx Launches the Clinical Genomicist Workstation for SaaS NGS Analysis

    Clinical Informatics News | PierianDx is commercializing Washington University’s Clinical Genomicist Workstation (CGW), and is offering the software-as-a-service tool through a HIPAA-compliant cloud. The first two customers are Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and Fletcher Allen Health Care, affiliated with the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

    Jul 23, 2014

  • Error Message for Physicians Looking for Pharma Payments

    ProPublica | Doctors hoping to review recorded payments from pharma, which are required to be disclosed later this year as part of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, are having trouble with the online database.

    Jul 22, 2014

  • Trials in India Rebounding for 2014

    Outsourcing Pharma | Clinical trials in India look to be rebounding 76 trials were approved from January to May 2014, compared to only 24 approved over the same period in 2013.

    Jul 22, 2014

  • Dark Side to EHR Adoption

    Boston Globe | While most in clinical-IT believe that electronic health records are absolutely necessary and will improve medicine and patient care, some groups are blaming forced adoption for medical errors and even deaths.

    Jul 21, 2014

  • Wearables: Leveraging the Health and Wellness Phenomenon

    Clinical Informatics News | Thanks to technology innovations, health and wellness treatment has become accessible to patients in ways never available before. The same is true in clinical trials. Focusing on activity monitors, there is a wealth of clinical applications explored in academia that may yield potential clinical trial benefits.

    Jul 21, 2014

  • HIPAA's Blind Spots for Data Brokers

    Healthcare IT News | A new report from the California Healthcare Foundation looks at gaps in the health data privacy and security protections contained in the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) when it comes to the activities of data brokers.

    Jul 17, 2014

  • Roche Alzheimer's Drug Fails, but Should Trials Proceed Anyway?

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Matthew Herper has a breakdown of the Roche’s failed Alzheimer’s trial data at Forbes today. While the trial itself didn’t succeed, Herper argues that it could still provide some hope for Alzheimer’s treatment, and suggest better trial design.

    Jul 16, 2014

  • JNJ's Consumer Business Needs Help to Support R&D

    Bloomberg | Johnson & Johnson is working hard to revive its consumer division, which could potentially add $500 million to JNJ's annual bottom line, supporting the more research intensive drug and device businesses.

    Jul 16, 2014

  • Informing the Protocol Building Process with the Patient in Mind

    Clinical Informatics News | In response to increasing pressure on biopharmaceutical sponsors to offer lower-cost, shorter-duration, and patient-centered clinical trials, a pharma veteran has started a company offering patient feedback—before trials—designed to help sponsors and patients by improving patient experience and reducing clinical trial cost and time.

    Jul 15, 2014

  • For Daktari Diagnostics, Point-of-Care Testing Requires Real-Time Data Access

    Clinical Informatics News | As Daktari Diagnostics field tests its cassette-sized CD4 counter in low-income nations of sub-Saharan Africa, it sees a real need to provide up-to-minute data to central labs, wherever the instruments travel.

    Jul 10, 2014

  • FDA Issues Letter to Gilead Calling for Removal of Sponsored Links

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | In mid-June, FDA released two draft guidances on how companies should deal with social media and sponsored links. Now the Agency has issued a letter to Gilead Sciences requesting that the company discontinue use of a sponsored Google link for Gilead's Viread, an FDA-approved treatment for chronic hepatitis B, because the links constitute misbranding under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

    Jul 8, 2014

  • Novartis Sets New Guidelines for Clinical Trials

    Bloomberg | After difficulties with a Japanese trial that started almost a year ago and culminating in an office raid last month, Novartis has released new guidelines for clinical trials.

    Jul 8, 2014

  • Google Not Interested in Being a Health Company

    Forbes | Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are not interested in making Google a health care company, the two said at a recent CEO conference.

    Jul 7, 2014

  • The Patient Recruitment Solution

    Philadelphia Inquirer | In the wake of GlaxoSmithKline's recent patient recruitment debacle, A Philadelphia Inquirer column asserts that hiring patient recruiters isn't even necessary in the first place.

    Jul 7, 2014

  • PHT Chooses Android Platform, LG phone for ePRO

    Clinical Informatics News | PHT Corporation is making its electronic patient reported outcome diary, LogPad, available on Android devices, and is specifically provisioning the Nexus consumer phone from Google and LG Electronics.

    Jul 7, 2014