• 82% of Clinicians to be 'Digital Omnivores' Next Year

    MobiHealthNews | According to a survey conducted by athenahealth subsidiary Epocrates, almost 50% of all clinicians in the US are using smartphones, tablets, and desktops—all three of these devices—in professional capacities throughout their workday.

    Aug 12, 2013

  • Updates to FDAs Clinical Trial Imaging Standards

    Bioclinica Blog | In 2011, the FDA issued a guidance entitled 'Standards for Clinical Trial Imaging Endpoints,' designed to aid sponsors in the use of imaging endpoints in clinical trials.

    Aug 12, 2013

  • The Thirteen Year Trial Results Delay

    Forbes | A 13-year delay in trial results publication has garnered criticism. The PRAISE-2 trial was a cardiac trial following up on a surprising finding from the 1995 PRAISE trial, which had results published in 1996 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The follow-up trial was completed in 2000, but the results were neutral. They were just published in JACC: Heart Failure.

    Aug 6, 2013

  • JAMA Waives Academic Review of Industry-Sponsored Trials

    American Medical News | The Journal of the American Medical Association has ended its policy of requiring clinical trials sponsored by industry to be reviewed by outside experts.

    Aug 6, 2013

  • Clinical Trials as a Favor to the Patient

    DiabetesHealth | DiabetesHealth contributing editor talks about his experience as a clinical trial participant. "These people are doing me a favor, so a little pain or discomfort is fair trade."

    Aug 2, 2013

  • Eric Topol on Genomics of Genius, Alzheimer's, Future Hospitals

    Medspace | Eric Topol weighs in on what he's seen interesting on the Web lately including the genomics of genius, Alzheimer's Disease, and the obsolete future of the hospital room.

    Jul 31, 2013

  • The New House Call

    Boston Globe | Doctors may not make house calls anymore, but your in-home health monitoring devices--scales, blood pressure cuffs, glucometeres, etc.--could send data directly your electronic record so your physician can track your progress. The system launched last month in Boston at Partner's HealthCare.

    Jul 30, 2013

  • Risk-Based Monitoring’s Potential to Reduce Costs, Save Time and Alleviate Monitor Burnout

    Clinical Informatics News | A risk-based approach to clinical monitoring, with multidisciplinary teamwork to design studies and centralized monitoring, can greatly reduce costs, produce better data, accelerate study timeframes and reduce stress for on-site monitors—improving the way the entire industry conducts clinical research

    Jul 30, 2013

  • Industry and Academia On Open Clinical Trials

    Chronicle of Higher Education | There's a growing trend of openness in clinical trials--led by industry. While government organizations have pushed for trial registration and data sharing, Glaxo, Medtronic, and others are actively opening their data stores to the public.

    Jul 29, 2013

  • Halamka on Google Glass, Health IT

    Health Care Blog | John Halamka tries Google Glass and explores ways the technology could be used for health IT--meaningful use II, clinical documentation, decision support, and more.

    Jul 29, 2013

  • Trials on Trial: Do Clinical Trials Really Work?

    New York Times | Do clinical trials even work? Clifton Leaf raises the question about are large trial showed Avastin ineffective against brain cancer. On the one hand, the randomized, controlled trial was based on science, not guesses. But on the other hand, it left researchers no more informed about how to treat brain cancer and why some patients do, apparently, respond.

    Jul 16, 2013

  • TrialShare Brings Much Needed Transparency to Clinical Trials Data

    Clinical Informatics News | Making sense of the millions of data points that characterize a clinical trials database is a tough challenge for sponsors in pursuit of new therapies. For therapeutic areas such as autoimmune disease, allergy and asthma, and transplantation, the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN), an international clinical research consortium, can help. Through TrialShare, a simple-to-use clinical trials research web portal developed at ITN, investigators and study management teams can better interpret data throughout the clinical trials process.

    Jul 15, 2013

  • Misconduct in Chinese Trials, Outcomes for BMS, Pfizer

    In the Pipeline | Bloomberg is reporting that a Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer product approved last year was slowed by misconduct in its Chinese clinical trials.

    Jul 12, 2013

  • Smartphones in Clinical Trials: Notes from DIA

    CIO Australia | There's a wealth of technology available for use in clinical trials, and smartphones in particular offer a range of options.

    Jul 11, 2013

  • Comprehend's $8.4 Million for Clinical Dashboards

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | In May, Comprehend Systems opened online signup to users to create customized, interactive dashboards that extend across all of the systems that house clinical trial data. The company today announced $8.4 million in Series A financing from Sequoia Capital.

    Jul 11, 2013

  • Alzheimer’s Test Only Covered in Clinical Trials

    Medical Daily | Medicare and Medicaid have placed regulations on Eli Lilly's Amyvid test for Alzheimer's disease, only allowing coverage to patients who participate in clinical trials for the test.

    Jul 11, 2013

  • RWJF Study Finds Health-IT Increasing

    Health-IT News | The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released a new study finding that adoption levels of health-IT are increasing from small physician practices to academic medical centers.

    Jul 9, 2013

  • Open Source Data Creates Health-IT Companies

    Computerworld | The Obama administration says that its Data.gov open source initiative, started in 2009, is creating  jobs and spawning start-ups, including many health-IT companies. 

    Jul 9, 2013

  • Nicotine Vaccine in Development

    Nanowerk | A new project out of Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute is attempting to create a vaccine for nicotine dependence.

    Jul 3, 2013

  • Silver for Antibiotics

    Nature | Silver has a history of fighting infections with its antimicrobial properties, but exactly how it was done, or exactly what it’s properties were, have been unclear until recently. Biomedical engineer James Collins and his team at Boston University found that silver attacks bacterial cells by making the cell membrane more permeable and interfering with the cell’s metabolism.

    Jul 1, 2013