• For Daktari Diagnostics, Point-of-Care Testing Requires Real-Time Data Access

    Clinical Informatics News | As Daktari Diagnostics field tests its cassette-sized CD4 counter in low-income nations of sub-Saharan Africa, it sees a real need to provide up-to-minute data to central labs, wherever the instruments travel.

    Jul 10, 2014

  • FDA Issues Letter to Gilead Calling for Removal of Sponsored Links

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | In mid-June, FDA released two draft guidances on how companies should deal with social media and sponsored links. Now the Agency has issued a letter to Gilead Sciences requesting that the company discontinue use of a sponsored Google link for Gilead's Viread, an FDA-approved treatment for chronic hepatitis B, because the links constitute misbranding under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

    Jul 8, 2014

  • Novartis Sets New Guidelines for Clinical Trials

    Bloomberg | After difficulties with a Japanese trial that started almost a year ago and culminating in an office raid last month, Novartis has released new guidelines for clinical trials.

    Jul 8, 2014

  • Google Not Interested in Being a Health Company

    Forbes | Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are not interested in making Google a health care company, the two said at a recent CEO conference.

    Jul 7, 2014

  • The Patient Recruitment Solution

    Philadelphia Inquirer | In the wake of GlaxoSmithKline's recent patient recruitment debacle, A Philadelphia Inquirer column asserts that hiring patient recruiters isn't even necessary in the first place.

    Jul 7, 2014

  • PHT Chooses Android Platform, LG phone for ePRO

    Clinical Informatics News | PHT Corporation is making its electronic patient reported outcome diary, LogPad, available on Android devices, and is specifically provisioning the Nexus consumer phone from Google and LG Electronics.

    Jul 7, 2014

  • Thinking Outside the Office Visit at the Center for Connected Health

    Clinical Informatics News | As the rise of smart phones and social media opens new windows into people's daily lives, the Partners HealthCare Center for Connected Health is borrowing tricks from the ad industry, to seamlessly integrate its health messaging into patients' routines without shaming or lecturing.

    Jul 3, 2014

  • A Compact for Interstate Telemedicine

    New York Times | The Federation of State Medical Boards, which represents every U.S. medical licensing organization, has released draft legislation that would ease the licensing requirements for doctors treating patients in multiple states through telemedicine or online portals.

    Jul 1, 2014

  • Age Cutoffs in Oncology Trials Have Unintended Consequences

    PharmaTimes | A study published in this month's Lancet Oncology reveals that teenage cancer sufferers have fewer opportunities to enroll in clinical trials than children or adults, despite little scientific rationale for age cutoffs.

    Jul 1, 2014

  • BMS Opens Clinical Data

    PM Live | Bristol-Myers Squibb has agreed to make full clinical study reports and anonymized patient-level data public via the Duke Clinical Research Initiative (DCRI).

    Jun 27, 2014

  • REACTing to the Trial Big Picture: AstraZeneca and Tessella Collaborate on Drug Safety Platform

    Clinical Informatics News | Twenty percent of Phase II clinical failures from 2008-2010 were because of drug safety issues, making safety not only a concern to the patient, but huge cost driver for drug developers. So AstraZeneca and their partner, Tessella, built REACT, a better tool to watch ongoing trials. The solution won the pair a 2014 Bio-IT World Best Practices Award in Clinical & Health IT.

    Jun 27, 2014

  • In Clinical Trials, Small is Beautiful

    Clinical Informatics News | As clinical trials are ballooning in size and becoming more global, there is a parallel trend toward smaller and smaller. How about a clinical trial with just one subject?

    Jun 26, 2014

  • GSK Under Fire for Recruiting Broke College Grads

    Clinical Informatics News | GlaxoSmithKline is raising questions about clinical trial recruitment after an outside consultant (who has since been fired) posted a blog post to a website for recent college graduates touting clinical trials as a source of “immediate income that can tide you over for the coming months”.

    Jun 23, 2014