• Medidata on Their SaaS Past and Future

    Forbes | Medidata's birth came from looking at Amazon, Glen de Vries told Forbes. If buying books on Amazon is a secure, easy service, couldn't clinical trials be done the same way?

    Feb 13, 2014

  • Patient Voices Kick Off Summit for Clinical Ops Executives

    Clinical Informatics News | Last week’s Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE) in Miami, Fla., kicked off with a powerful session featuring Jamie Heywood of PatientsLikeMe and a panel of clinical trial participants speaking on behalf of the people that trials are designed to help.

    Feb 12, 2014

  • SCOPE Summary: An Overview of the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives

    Clinical Informatics News | Last week’s Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE) in Miami, Fla., was a packed three days of conversations, networking, new products, and brainstorming on the future and direction of clinical trials. We’ll be digging into the event more fully this week, but here is an overview. 

    Feb 10, 2014

  • Berry Consultants Gets the FACTS

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Berry Consultants has gained complete ownership of the Fixed and Adaptive Clinical Trial Simulator (FACTS) the company developed and marketed in cooperation with Tessella.

    Feb 7, 2014

  • Paging Doctor Wikipedia

    CBS Connecticut | The IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics has released a report showing that physicians and patients alike consult Wikipedia for medical information more than any other source.

    Feb 6, 2014

  • A Study in Communicating Risk

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | A suggestive recent study tried to quantify the difference between telling patients their Framingham Heart Study risk score, versus reporting their "Heart Age."

    Feb 6, 2014

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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