Clinical Research News | It is well known that patients empowered to take actions to manage their health and care are healthier patients who can save payers and providers money. That's why the Utah Health Information Network is running one of the few health information exchanges (HIEs) with a patient portal designed to give individuals access and control over their data to keep them involved and informed about their own healthcare.

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Clinical Research News | Researchers have long believed that ethics generally precludes conducting clinical studies with pregnant women, which also spares investigators the administrative burden of their involvement. A recent movement, however, is shining a light on the consequences this approach has on expectant mothers in the real world.

Clinical Research News | Clinical Research News is accepting entries for the 2019 Clinical Research News European Innovation Awards competition.

Clinical Research News | The problem with applying artificial intelligence in healthcare is twofold—innovation is antithetical to the corporate culture and data is viewed as the provenance of the IT department, according to Ron Williams, founder and CEO of Business Evolution. For all the talk about AI at industry conferences, most vociferously by vendors in the exhibition hall, the technology has made next to no inroads in the real world, he says.

Clinical Research News Brief | Verantos announced a collaboration with Amgen focused on the use of advanced data sources and artificial intelligence (AI) to achieve high-accuracy observational studies.

STAT | Amazon unveiled software on Thursday that allows health care companies to build Alexa voice tools capable of securely transmitting private patient information, a move that opens the door to a broad array of uses in homes and hospitals.

Clinical Research News | Increasingly, the acquisition and digital analysis of health-related measurements is gaining merit in the clinical setting with the promise that artificial intelligence will increase the strength of diagnosis, prediction, and therapeutic efficacy.

Clinical Research News | March was full of exciting news in the clinical trial and healthcare community, including partnerships, products, and promotions from Forte, Saama, N-SIDE, and more.

Clinical Research News | The website of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology talks a fair amount about consumer-mediated health information exchange (HIE). The trouble is, there’s no sign of its existence in the real world.

Clinical Research News | Researchers at the Khine Laboratory are using Shrinky Dinks to analyze respiration monitoring and developed a wearable sensor that measures both respiration rate and volume with high fidelity simultaneously.

Clinical Research News | An innovative at-home program that recruits and refers healthy individuals for Alzheimer’s Disease clinical trials nationwide is sharing its design, program results, and participant feedback for the first time with the scientific community.

Clinical Research News | With the help of Apple’s ResearchKit, Mount Sinai was able to release their Asthma Mobile Health study app, enabling them to a clinical observational study in its entirety using a smartphone.

Clinical Research News | Algorithms are changing clinical care. True AI—neural networks—will play a role, but less sophisticated algorithms are already powering dramatic improvements.

Clinical Research News | Natural language processing is the preferred means for a growing number of cancer centers, including the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, to turn unstructured and structured text into smart data by developing workflows automating the capture of information useful for downstream clinical research—reducing to nanoseconds what would have taken hours to do manually.