• ACRES to Produce Global Accreditation Standards for Trial Sites

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES), an international group aiming to unite clinical trial sites around the world under common standards and data networks, has announced that it will begin drafting global guidelines for the accreditation of research sites.

    Sep 18, 2014

  • Multiple Myeloma Clinical Trials Kick Into High Gear

    Clinical Informatics News | A year after launching its online research gateways to connect multiple myeloma patients and researchers across the country, the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation is witnessing a boom in fast-track drug approvals and late stage trials for the disease.

    Sep 16, 2014

  • What Weight Should Oncologists Give to Retrospective Trials of Common Drugs?

    Oncology Live | Maurie Markman, National Director for Medical Oncology at Cancer Treatment Centers of America and editor-in-chief of Oncology Live, writes a thoughtful editorial on the growing number of retrospective studies showing a benefit for common non-cancer drugs in cancer cases.

    Sep 15, 2014

  • Sanger Institute to Implement Real-Time Sequencing in Outbreaks

    The Guardian | After retrospective studies of hospital-centered outbreaks, in which whole-genome sequencing was used to track bacteria with multiple antibiotic resistance, the U.K.'s Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is planning to recreate this system for use during the course of an outbreak.

    Sep 12, 2014

  • European Pharma, Regulators to Produce Adverse Events App

    In-Pharma Technologist | A team led by the U.K.'s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Swiss drug developer Novartis is collaborating on an app that could be used by patients and providers to step up reporting of adverse drug events.

    Sep 9, 2014

  • DoD Contract Could Be Major Force in Shaping EHR Interoperability

    Clinical Informatics News | The Department of Defense is planning new measures to overhaul its electronic health records system, which covers the medical histories of roughly ten million Americans, and the department plans to make interoperability a top priority.

    Sep 8, 2014

  • Clinical Informatics News Opens 2015 Best Practices Awards

    Clinical Informatics News | The editors are pleased to announce that submissions are open for the second annual Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Awards, which recognize outstanding innovations in improving the clinical trials process from all members of the trial landscape.

    Sep 5, 2014

  • Informed Consent in the Era of Health Informatics

    Politico | As electronic health systems make it easier for large hospitals to perform comparative studies of different courses of treatment, providers, patient advocates, and government alike worry that the patient consent process is too slow and unwieldy to support this needed research.

    Sep 4, 2014

  • Apple's iCloud Not Open for Health Data

    Business Insider | In the run-up to the launch of Apple's HealthKit personal healthcare platform, the company has announced that app developers will be barred from storing customers' health-related data in iCloud.

    Sep 3, 2014

  • 2014 POC and mHealth Diagnostics Summit Preview

    Clinical Informatics News | In an acknowledgement of the growing interest in point-of-care testing to expand access to diagnostics and control healthcare costs, the POC and mHealth Diagnostics Summit will premiere this November in Boston to address both technology and policy considerations needed to support these diagnostic tools.

    Sep 3, 2014

  • August Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | News and product releases from around the industry, including a large clinical trial of molecular targeting in diverse cancer treatments, and a novel reimbursement model from MolecularHealth.

    Aug 29, 2014

  • The Dangers of Alarm Fatigue

    Forbes | In urgent care settings, alarms from patient-monitoring instruments may become background noise as devices compete for nurses' attention with often inconsistent emergency thresholds.

    Aug 25, 2014

  • At Next Generation Dx Summit, FDA Discusses Approval of NGS Assays

    Clinical Informatics News | At a conference in Washington, DC, two FDA representatives addressed the agency’s thought process when reviewing assays based on next-generation sequencing, especially in the form of companion diagnostics paired with specific drugs.

    Aug 22, 2014

  • HICCup Embarks on the Way to Wellville

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The Health Initiative Coordinating Council (HICCup), a non-profit devoted to exploring new models and incentives in community healthcare, has announced the selection of five American towns to participate in its Way to Wellville challenge.

    Aug 19, 2014

  • Lesser-Known Genetic Risk Factors for Breast Cancer

    Boston Globe | As greater numbers of women seek out genetic tests to predict their lifetime risks of developing breast cancer, moderate-risk mutations like those to the PALB2 gene are leading to difficult questions.

    Aug 15, 2014