• Will Americans Share Data with Researchers

    MobiHealthNews | About 68% of Americans are willing to share health care data with researchers, but that group tends to be wealthy, well-educated, and young. However, this group is also most concerned about data privacy.

    Dec 1, 2014

  • How to navigate big data in healthcare

    Computerworld | Kaiser Permanente CMIO John Mattison cautions healthcare organizations to take a hard look at the way they approach data to ensure that health information is an asset, not a liability. He also cites the need for a new role: a health data concierge.

    Dec 1, 2014

  • Holiday Reading – The FDA’s Busy Year

    Clinical Informatics News | The “drug” half of the Food and Drug Administration has been reexamining its role in a changing industry this year, reevaluating both how it reviews new kinds of biotech diagnostics, and where it fits in a healthcare system that has increasingly probed the limits of FDA oversight. Here are some of the big stories to come out of the FDA this year.

    Nov 26, 2014

  • Connecting Fitness Data to Health

    Forbes | Are consumers really taking their fitness device data to their doctors? Survey says No.

    Nov 26, 2014

  • CROs mostly positive on rule to make clinical trials transparent

    Outsourcing-Pharma.com | Last week, the NIH and FDA proposed measures that would require the release of summary results of clinical trials for products that are unapproved or unlicensed. CROs have expressed some concern about the transparency initiatives, but were mostly positive.

    Nov 24, 2014

  • Apotex Sues Health Canada Over an ‘Unlawful’ Ban on its Drugs

    WSJ | Apotex, which is one of the larger generic drug makers in Canada, is lashing out at regulators, alleging in a lawsuit that a recent ban on drugs from its Indian plants was illegal and politically motivated.

    Nov 21, 2014

  • New Rules for Clinical Trial Results Disclosure

    Nature News | Regulations proposed yesterday would increase clinical trial transparency.

    Nov 20, 2014

  • PHT Releases Electronic Neuropsychiatric Interview, Rater Training

    Clinical Informatics News | PHT has released an electronic version of the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I.) for electronic data capture, and has developed training for the tool that will improve data quality and optimize the uniformity of clinician-reported data capture across clinical studies.

    Nov 19, 2014

  • $2.6 Billion Drugs, Or Not

    Clinical Informatics News | The Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development released new estimates today of how much it costs to develop and win marketing approval for a drug. The total? $2.6 billion.

    Nov 18, 2014

  • Regeneron Drug Lowers LDL for Patients Who Cant Take Statins

    Reuters | Just a day after Merck reported strong results from its IMPROVE-IT Vytorin trial, Regeneron presented its own clinical trial saying its drug helped 10 times as many patients lower their LDL.

    Nov 18, 2014

  • Cardiac Outcomes Trial Shows Drug Benefit, Research Direction

    Forbes | Results of a seven year cardiac outcomes study were announced today. The IMPROVE-IT trial of Merck's Vytorin versus simvastatin showed that Vytorin does improve outcomes.

    Nov 17, 2014

  • Clinical Trial to Test How Patients Use Genetic Information

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | On Monday, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Institute for Personalized Medicine announced a new clinical study to determine how knowledge of a genetic predisposition effects lifestyle changes.

    Nov 13, 2014

  • Clinical Trials for Ebola to Launch Next Month

    PharmaTimes | Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) plans to host clinical trials in three of its Ebola treatment centers in West Africa next month.

    Nov 13, 2014