• Best Practices Awards Recognize Excellence in Clinical IT

    Clinical Informatics News | The winners ofClinical Informatics News’ first annual Best Practices Awards were announced this morning at the 2014 Summit for Clinical Ops Executives in Miami.

    Feb 6, 2014

  • Definiens Brings Big Data to the Tissue

    Clinical Informatics News | A partnership announced this week with Clarient Diagnostic Services, to provide a suite of breast cancer diagnostic tests, highlights how image analytic company Definiens is making "tissue phenomics" a partner to genomics in biomedical big data.

    Feb 5, 2014

  • HHS Revises Rules on Patient Access to Test Results

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced yesterday that CLIA-certified labs will have new responsibilities to report test results directly to patients upon request.

    Feb 4, 2014

  • Apple and the FDA

    New York Times | High-level discussions between Apple executives and the FDA are fueling speculations that the IT titan may be hard at work on wearable health monitors.

    Feb 3, 2014

  • MiSeqDx Foreshadows Expanded Universe of Clinical Sequencing

    Clinical Informatics News | After last year's FDA approval of the first clinical next-generation sequencer, industry leader Illumina speaks to Clinical Informatics News about the company's plans to expand its diagnostic applications, and introduce a more powerful instrument to the clinic.

    Feb 3, 2014

  • At Last, a Draft Guidance on Social Media

    Clinical Informatics News | The long awaited draft guidance on social media, released by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on January 13, 2014, is in a 90-day comment period. The draft guidance spells out for the first time the agency’s thinking on when companies should make these submissions to FDA in this era of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and media blogs. 

    Jan 31, 2014

  • Johnson & Johnson Tries New Model for Data Transparency

    Xconomy | Johnson & Johnson today announced that an independent group at Yale will be empowered to review and grant scientific requests to see the full results of any clinical trial in the company's records.

    Jan 30, 2014

  • Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs Gradually Gaining Acceptance

    Clinical Informatics News | In an industry not known for change, more pharmaceutical companies are embracing adaptive clinical trial designs to boost success rates, decrease costs, and hasten timelines.  “This may be the Renaissance period for adaptive trial designs,” notes Kenneth Kaitin, PhD, Director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.

    Jan 28, 2014

  • The Evernote EMR

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | It seems the industry is still trying to strike the right balance in electronic health records: security, ease of use, connectivity are all a play. One man decided to build his own.

    Jan 23, 2014

  • Novo Nordisk Chooses Social Media Recruitment Tool for Diabetes Studies

    Outsourcing Pharma | Novo Nordisk has chosen Trialbee to raise enrollment numbers in diabetes studies.

    Jan 23, 2014

  • Few Doctors Connect Patients to Clinical Trials

    PR Newswire | A survey by the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network shows that not only do few patients talk to their doctors about clinical trials after receiving a cancer diagnosis, but even fewer are connected to clinical trials after conventional treatments fail.

    Jan 22, 2014

  • Oregon's Public Health Plan - After the Medicaid Study

    Clinical Informatics News | The Oregon Medicaid Study's latest paper made headlines this month when it found a dramatic rise in emergency department visits among Medicaid enrollees. But in Oregon, a new model of public healthcare may be bending that trend back.

    Jan 22, 2014

  • CollabRx Links Breast Cancer App to Genomic Blood Test

    Clinical Informatics News | Patients of physicians who order the Cynvenio ClearID Breast Cancer genomic blood test will receive an annual subscription to a customized version of the CollabRx Therapy Finder app for breast cancer. 

    Jan 15, 2014

  • Can Clinical Trial Changes Increase Drug Approvals

    Clinical Informatics News | A Nature Biotechnology paper summarized the state of drug approvals from 2003 to 2012, and it’s not terribly encouraging. The answer, the authors suggest, might lie in trial design.

    Jan 13, 2014

  • Needs List for Clinical Decision Support

    InformationWeek | As Stage 2 Meaningful Use draws closer, some physicians are still struggling with Stage 1 regulations on Clinical Decision Support

    Jan 9, 2014

  • Potential Clinical Research Profits Elude Community Hospitals

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical research trials are flourishing in community hospitals nationwide; however, many hospitals fail to generate a profit or develop a research infrastructure. Still others remain on the research sidelines, resulting in missed opportunities for enhanced revenue, community prestige, and retaining prominent physicians.

    Jan 8, 2014

  • New Look for Medical Data to Empower Patients

    TED Blog | Wired's former executive editor, Thomas Goetz, has launched a new company dedicated to reimagining health and drug data so that it can be better used by patients.

    Jan 8, 2014