• Navigating Rare Diseases: New Platform Aims to Connect Patients with Rare Diseases to Hospitals

    Clinical Informatics News | CurityMD is a new platform striving to inform patients with rare diseases about the specialists, treatment options, clinical trials, and hospitals around the country that can best meet their needs. The CurityMD platform lets patients search by condition and drill down by geographic location, ranked hospitals, and centers with ongoing clinical trials.

    May 19, 2014

  • PHT Releases App for Navigating FDA Guidelines on Patient-Focused Outcomes

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The FDA Roadmap App from PHT Corporation is build to help sponsors design clinical trials around patient-reported outcomes in compliance with FDA recommendations.

    May 15, 2014

  • New Payment Transparency Commitment from Top Three Insurers

    Modern Healthcare | This week, the nation's three largest health insurance providers, UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, and Humana, made public a commitment to share payment information on a freely available online database.

    May 15, 2014

  • FDA Stands Out Among Regulators in Speed of Approvals

    Regulatory Focus | The Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society looks at the time to approval of drugs submitted to the FDA compared to the European Medicines Agency and Japan's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency.

    May 13, 2014

  • Community Health Centers Show Little Bias in EHR Adoption

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | A study from the Department of Health and Human Services suggests that federally-funded community health centers, unlike other care providers, have adopted electronic health records equitably across socio-economic divides.

    May 13, 2014

  • 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