• Georgia Medical Center Installs New Clinical IT Platform

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Georgia Regents Medical Center (GRMC), a not-for-profit corporation in Augusta, Georgia that provides clinical operations as a cooperative organization for Georgia Regents University, has installed Philips IntelliSpace PACS v4.4 to serve as a single, integrated clinical IT platform.

    Feb 21, 2014

  • Elizabeth Holmes Shares the Theranos Story

    Wired | Elizabeth Holmes, the young engineer whose company Theranos is miniaturizing blood tests for rapid results and multiple assays, talks about how her tests could change the practice of medicine.

    Feb 19, 2014

  • Welcome to the Clinical Cloud – Are You Ready?

    Clinical Informatics News | Contributed Commentary | Market research studies trumpeting the dominance of cloud computing are a bit ho-hum by now. Even so, the cloud has seen slightly slower uptake in clinical. Overwhelmed with market pressures, many clinical leaders have been distracted but are still curious about cloud and its bearing on clinical processes. Here’s a look at five palpable ways the cloud can specifically impact clinical success.

    Feb 19, 2014

  • Collaboration and Competition in Clinical Trials

    Clinical Informatics News | Talking collaboration and competition, executives from Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Sanofi closed the 2014 SCOPE summit with a candid conversation about what innovation is, and what they still need.

    Feb 14, 2014

  • Social Listening, Collaboration, and Data Management at SCOPE

    Clinical Informatics News | The 11 conference tracks at SCOPE cover everything from electronic data in clinical trials; site selection and feasibility assessment; spending and reporting; post-marketing; patient recruitment, retention, and engagement; and much more. This year common themes emerged including patient-centricity, cross-industry collaboration, efforts to ease study startup and feasibility assessment, and the prime role of data in all aspects of the clinical trial life cycle. 

    Feb 13, 2014

  • Medidata on Their SaaS Past and Future

    Forbes | Medidata's birth came from looking at Amazon, Glen de Vries told Forbes. If buying books on Amazon is a secure, easy service, couldn't clinical trials be done the same way?

    Feb 13, 2014

  • Patient Voices Kick Off Summit for Clinical Ops Executives

    Clinical Informatics News | Last week’s Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE) in Miami, Fla., kicked off with a powerful session featuring Jamie Heywood of PatientsLikeMe and a panel of clinical trial participants speaking on behalf of the people that trials are designed to help.

    Feb 12, 2014

  • SCOPE Summary: An Overview of the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives

    Clinical Informatics News | Last week’s Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE) in Miami, Fla., was a packed three days of conversations, networking, new products, and brainstorming on the future and direction of clinical trials. We’ll be digging into the event more fully this week, but here is an overview. 

    Feb 10, 2014

  • Berry Consultants Gets the FACTS

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Berry Consultants has gained complete ownership of the Fixed and Adaptive Clinical Trial Simulator (FACTS) the company developed and marketed in cooperation with Tessella.

    Feb 7, 2014

  • Paging Doctor Wikipedia

    CBS Connecticut | The IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics has released a report showing that physicians and patients alike consult Wikipedia for medical information more than any other source.

    Feb 6, 2014

  • A Study in Communicating Risk

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | A suggestive recent study tried to quantify the difference between telling patients their Framingham Heart Study risk score, versus reporting their "Heart Age."

    Feb 6, 2014