• Dana-Farber, LLS Establish Network of Clinical Trial Testing Sites

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have joined forces to create a network of sites in community oncology settings across the country for clinical trial testing specifically focused in blood cancer therapies.

    Jun 7, 2013

  • Adaptive Trials Growing Among CROs, Pharma

    Outsourcing Pharma | Adaptive trials continue to gain ground, says Ken Getz, Director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. He says the industry as a whole is seeing an adoption rate of about 20%, with regulators receptive to even broader implementation.

    Jun 5, 2013

  • Continuous, Remote Patient Monitoring Poised to Advance as M2M Technologies Emerge

    Clinical Inforamtics News | Guest Commentary | The life sciences industry has been focused on improving clinical trial productivity in recent years, realizing significant data management efficiency gains over the last decade largely due to the widespread adoption of remote data capture technologies. However, we still have substantial opportunities to further reduce the cost and improve the speed and quality of data collected during clinical trials. The rapid emergence of machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies can transform how we collect clinical trial data and dramatically improve its accuracy and immediacy.

    Jun 5, 2013

  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Launches Data App Competition

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has launched an app competition aimed at improving consumer understanding and use of data that compare hospital prices.

    Jun 4, 2013

  • European Parliament Releases Clinical Trial Rules

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The European Parliament's public health committee released new rules for clinical trials yesterday. The rules are meant to make trials quicker and more transparent and help to provide better treatment.

    May 31, 2013

  • Predicting Readmits: Big Data for Health Care

    Computerworld | Predictive analytics is on the rise, and though it's still challenging to actually make future predictions. Medalogix examines patient records and makes predictions about hospital readmits.

    May 30, 2013

  • Improved and Refined Voluntary Harmonization Procedure Benefits European Clinical Trials

    Labmate | Improving Voluntary Harmonization Procedures (VHPs) for multinational clinical trials applications expedites the creation and distribution of patient therapies.

    May 29, 2013

  • New Report Suggests Adaptive Designs of Clinical Trials are Likely to Increase Over Next Few Years

    PharmaTimes | According to a study done by Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD), roughly 20% of ongoing clinical trials are currently using adaptive designs, and usage of these methods are expected to increase in the exploratory phase of drug development.

    May 29, 2013

  • From DNA to PDF: Harnessing the Genome and Phenome to Make Better Diagnoses

    Clinical Informatics News | When doctors like Marc Williams need to analyze thousands of variants in a patient’s genome to make a diagnosis, a little help can go a long way. Williams, the director of the Genomic Medicine Institute, won a Bio-IT World Best Practices award in Informatics at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo this past month for his project testing the effectiveness of SimulConsult’s “Genome-Phenome Analyzer,” a tool to help clinicians analyze a patient’s genome. 

    May 27, 2013

  • ClinTec Expands to Middle East, North Africa

    Business Insider | CRO firm ClinTec International has opened an office in Istanbul. Now operating in 40 countries, ClinTec's Turkey office will further consolidate its presence in the Middle East and North Africa.

    May 21, 2013

  • Building Enthusiasm for Clinical Trials

    PhysBizTech | Using a trial search engine and educational web videos, researchers at the Seidman Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have been looking into ways to help build enthusiasm for clinical trials from both patients and practitioners.

    May 20, 2013

  • Singapore Launches New Flu Vaccine Trial

    MedicalXpress | Singapore's A*STAR and Swiss group Cytos Biotechnology have launched a Phase 1 clinical trial for an H1N1 flu vaccine, making use of Cytos’ virus-like particle (VLP) technology.

    May 20, 2013

  • Convergence and Big Data: Conversations from the Post-Approval Summit

    Clinical Informatics News | Dr. Richard Gliklich, President of the Quintiles Outcome Division of Quintiles, gave Clinical Informatics News a summary of conversations and issues raised at the 2013 Post-Approval Summit.

    May 20, 2013

  • MIT Develops Insulin-Releasing Nanoparticles

    Diabetes News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers recently developed injectable nanoparticles for patients with type 1 diabetes. These nanoparticles are designed to replace the function of islet cells.

    May 16, 2013

  • Generics Fraud: An Investigation

    CNN Money | Excellent reporting into the long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy—the Indian drug company that makes generic Lipitor.

    May 15, 2013

  • Instem Acquires Logos Technologies, Plans SaaS Offering

    eCliniqua News Brief | Instem has acquired Logos Technologies, representing its strategic move into the early phase clinical trials market. Logos’ ALPHADAS software solution suite is a proactive eSource clinical trials system that is mobile, schedule-driven, and provides real-time bedside or station based direct data capture.

    May 14, 2013

  • Certara, Veristat Form Alliance to Streamline Discovery, Trial Process

    eCliniqua | Certara and Veristat have formed an alliance to offer pharmacokinetic (PK) analysis, PK /pharmacodynamic (PD) modeling, population PK modeling, trial simulation, clinical biostatistics, medical writing, data management, clinical monitoring, safety management, and project management to their clients.

    May 15, 2013

  • Bacteria Detection Device Could ID Pathogens at Bedside

    Forbes | Using DNA hybridization and detection with a miniaturized nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) device about the size of a microscope slide, researchers are able to test for several bacterial pathogens at once within hours.

    May 14, 2013

  • Breast Cancer Trials Test Several Therapies at Once

    OncLive | The I-SPY trials for breast cancer are aiming to test several experimental therapies at once to determine which ones work best in which patients.

    May 14, 2013

  • Moffitt Uses Biosamples to Improve Trial Efficiency

    News Medical | According to researchers at Total Care Cancer (a comprehensive approach to cancer launched at Moffitt Cancer Center), using biosamples for phase II cancer trials improves research efficiency, cost, and the rate of drug development.

    May 13, 2013