• Hospital Fines Accumulating in HIPAA Violations

    Government Health IT | For a 2010 data breach affecting almost 7,000 patients, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center have now agreed to pay a combined $4.8 million in fines.

    May 12, 2014

  • ICON Acquires Aptiv Solutions

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | ICON today completed the acquisition of Aptiv Solutions. Aptiv Solutions is focused on design and execution of adaptive clinical trials.

    May 8, 2014

  • DrugDev Acquires TrialNetworks as 'Tech Glue'

    Clinical Informatics News | DrugDev announced this morning that it has acquired TrialNetworks. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the transaction was supported by investment from Invesco Perpetual.

    May 5, 2014

  • Bio-IT World Names 2014 Best Practices Winners

    Clinical Informatics News | Bio-IT World, Clinical Informatics News' sister publication, announced the winners of its tenth annual Best Practices Awards competition yesterday morning in a plenary session at the 2014 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston.

    Apr 30, 2014

  • At Medical Informatics World, Promise of Health IT is Patient Outreach

    Clinical Informatics News | This Monday and Tuesday, the second annual Medical Informatics World Conference convened in Boston to discuss trends and best practices in health information technology.

    Apr 30, 2014

  • April News Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical news from around the industry, including a new prognostic for cancer care and an operating room management platform.

    Apr 25, 2014

  • GoBalto’s New Focus, Platforms for Study Startup

    Clinical Informatics News | With a new focus on processes, GoBalto releases its study startup methodology and cloud platform.  

    Apr 23, 2014

  • European Authorities Prepare for Major Trial Transparency Changes

    Outsourcing Pharma | The European Medicines Agency is preparing to enforce the public release of all clinical trial data, but details remain to be ironed out.

    Apr 22, 2014

  • Ushering in the Age of the Digital Trial

    Clinical Informatics News | Best Practices | The Pfizer REMOTE study—a clinical trial done completely virtually—was made possible thanks to a suite of tools developed by Pfizer and Mytrus. The tools that enabled the all-virtual protocol were recognized in February as a Clinical Informatics News Best Practice.

    Apr 16, 2014

  • Certara Moves Into Regulatory Writing with Acquisition of Synchrogenix

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Certara, a large CRO specializing in computational modeling for drug discovery and development, announced this morning the acquisition of Synchrogenix, the world's largest regulatory writing CRO.

    Apr 15, 2014