• How Hospitals Use Social Media

    Wall Street Journal | A hospital in Delaware is reaching out for patient feedback through social media. The children's hospital is surveying parents about their care preferences via a private social network.

    Aug 23, 2013

  • What Big Data Means for Pay-for-Performance

    InformationWeek | Some doctors are concerned about big data in their practices. The topic of a recent Wall Street Journal article, some clinicians fear that big data will mean metrics to meet.

    Aug 22, 2013

  • Chemoresponse Assays Help Clinicians Determine Treatment

    OncLive | Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of the ChemoFx assay by testing patients’ tumor samples for sensitivity and resistance to various chemotherapeutic agents.

    Aug 22, 2013

  • Greenphire Fuels Compliance With the Sunshine Act

    Clinical Informatics News | The life sciences sector has taken a giant step toward transparency with the August 1, 2013 launch of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. But now physicians and hospitals must learn to comply.

    Aug 20, 2013

  • Patient Recruitment Tool Targets Physicians

    PharmaTimes | MD On-Line (MDOL) has released a new patient recruitment tool. ID Recruit is designed to help doctors and the pharmaceutical industry identify the best candidates for clinical trials.

    Aug 20, 2013

  • Competing Drug Companies May Combine Late-Stage Trials of Drug Candidates

    Boston Business Journal | TranCelerate Biopharma reports that it has signed agreements facilitating head to head drug trials. The agreements allow drug makers to buy a competitor’s product for use in comparative clinical trials.

    Aug 20, 2013

  • Quintiles Acquires Novella

    News and Observer | Quintiles has acquired Novella Clinical of Morrisville, North Carolina. Novella is a CRO focusing on supporting companies developing cancer treatments.

    Aug 15, 2013

  • Clinical Trial App Partners with CenterWatch

    Clinical Informatics News | Study Scavenger and CenterWatch are partnering to provide sponsors, contract research organizations (CROs), research centers and patients a mobile solution to their clinical trial needs.

    Aug 14, 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

  • 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

  • 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