• Google Pilots Medical Consults as Search Results

    Wired | A limited pool of users who search for medical symptoms on Google are now being offered the option to speak with health professionals in live video chats.

    Oct 14, 2014

  • Massachusetts Healthcare Price Comparisons Go Live

    CommonHealth | Two years after passage of a Massachusetts law requiring private health insurers to publicly display the prices for healthcare services they negotiate with care centers, all of the state's major insurers have complied.

    Oct 9, 2014

  • EHR Data as Court Evidence

    Government Health IT | A legal analysis in the Ave Maria Law Review suggests that data contained in electronic health records would be inadmissible in court, as its reliability could be compromised by misaligned incentives.

    Oct 8, 2014

  • Challenging Traditional Clinical Data Review Models

    Clinical Informatics News | Contributed Commentary | The move away from 100% source data verification is not only shaping up to be a major driver of efficiency in clinical trials, it is also increasingly within reach for even smaller sponsors and CROs thanks to experience identifying key data points and new visualization tools to spot trends in the source data.

    Oct 7, 2014

  • EMR Fault in U.S. Ebola Case?

    Bloomberg | It has now been widely reported that an oversight in Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital's electronic medical record system contributed to the discharge without a diagnosis of the U.S. patient later diagnosed with the ebola virus, but policy experts note that human error should also be considered a factor.

    Oct 6, 2014

  • EMA Makes Concessions to Transparency Advocates Over Release of Clinical Study Reports

    PharmaTimes | The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has finalized its policy on clinical study transparency, following an April vote of the European Union to require all clinical trial results to be openly published.

    Oct 3, 2014

  • September Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | News and product releases from around the industry, including the ATHENA study of Alport syndrome, and a customizable patient portal for results from genome sequencing.

    Oct 2, 2014

  • Personal Attention for Regular Hospital Visitors

    Kaiser Health News | The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers is conducting a long-term clinical trial to test whether giving personal "coaching" attention to the heaviest users of hospital systems will reduce readmissions and improve patient wellbeing.

    Oct 1, 2014

  • Big Results for Perjeta are Big Boost for Personalized Medicine

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The CLEOPATRA study, which began recruitment in 2008 for an 800-patient clinical trial of the antibody therapy Perjeta in breast cancer, has just released its results, showing an incredible survival gain of nearly 16 months.

    Sep 29, 2014

  • Health Policy Advocates Protest Auction of .health Internet Domain

    Clinical Informatics News | The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit that sets global policy for Internet domain names, plans to shortly auction off the rights to sell health-related top-level domain names, including .health, a scheme that is drawing protests from medical and public policy organizations.

    Sep 26, 2014

  • FDA's Sentinel Project Advances from Pilot Stage

    Nature News | The Sentinel Initiative, launched in 2008, aims to collect adverse event reports from electronic health records and insurance claims databases, giving the FDA an additional tool to monitor the safety characteristics of drugs and medical devices after they reach the market.

    Sep 24, 2014

  • Risk to Patients Balanced Against Risk to Labs as FDA Moves on Lab Developed Tests

    Clinical Informatics News | On September 29, the FDA is set to issue a draft guidance that will, for the first time, subject tests developed and used in single laboratories to FDA oversight. While the agency worries about the risk to patients from unapproved tests, hospital and academic labs fear that the costs of regulation will shut down their most innovative procedures.

    Sep 23, 2014