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May 15, 2018, 05:02
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Michael Croft
- May 15, 2018 - A big data analysis conducted by global information analytics business, Elsevier, has evaluated the ability of animal studies to predict human safety
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May 14, 2018, 12:27
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Michael Croft
PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - May 14, 2018 - ERT, a global data and technology company that minimizes uncertainty and risk in clinical trials, today announced the availability of the ERT Neurostatus-EDSS System
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May 11, 2018, 12:50
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Michael Croft
STAT | In a letter to Novartis, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) suggested the payments may have been linked to a groundbreaking Novartis cancer treatment that was being reviewed last year by the FDA. And he also noted the drug maker was holding talks last year with the CMS about a unique reimbursement deal for the medication.
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May 11, 2018, 11:43
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Michael Croft
CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - May 11, 2018 - Frustrated that their discovery scientists spend more time looking for and preparing relevant omics data than analysing it, Genestacks pharmaceutical clients challenged the company to solve this industry problem
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May 9, 2018, 10:24
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Michael Croft
WESTBURY, NY - May 9, 2018 - BioIVT, a leading provider of biospecimens and related services, today announced that Steven W. Louie has joined the company as Director of Transporter Sciences
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May 9, 2018, 09:19
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Michael Croft
MINNEAPOLIS, MA - Jul 11, 2018 - Arena International is proud to present a unique conference dedicated to the medical device industry, the Outsourcing in Clinical Trials Medical Devices USA taking place on the 11th and 12th of July in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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May 9, 2018, 08:56
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Michael Croft
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA - May 9, 2018 - CRF Health, the leading provider of patient-centered eSource for the life sciences industry, today announced that its electronic Clinical Outcome Assessment (eCOA) solutions have been selected for a significant insomnia trial by a European pharmaceutical company specializing in the discovery and development of small molecules
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May 8, 2018, 10:55
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Michael Croft
Clinical Informatics News | Blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin, has a surprising degree of relevance for healthcare. In this series of stories, Clinical Informatics News writer Deborah Borfitz looks into emerging use cases for blockchain in health care and clinical trials, and speaks with some of the companies breaking new ground.
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May 8, 2018, 09:37
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Michael Croft
, NY - May 8, 2018 - Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, has today announced a strategic collaboration with PerkinElmer
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May 8, 2018, 08:55
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Michael Croft
Clinical Informatics News | While some groups are working to bring blockchain to clinical care, George Church plans to use the technology for carrier-status matchmaking.
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May 8, 2018, 08:50
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Michael Croft
Clinical Informatics News | Physicians are particularly enthusiastic about blockchain’s potential to restore their clinical autonomy and relationship with patients by cutting out unnecessary middlemen. In the case of electronic health records (EHRs), the disintermediated parties would include hospitals and EHR vendors by shifting ownership to individual patients. It is arguably the most valuable use case for blockchain, and certainly the most popular.
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May 8, 2018, 08:40
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Michael Croft
Clinical Informatics News | As blockchain visionaries see it, value chains of the future will have an entirely new infrastructure and change the nature of transactions involving “assets”—ranging from claims funneling into a revenue cycle to patients moving through an episode of care—by removing the need for an intermediary that sets the rules and extracts a fee.
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May 7, 2018, 15:37
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Michael Croft
Forbes | Geisinger doctors will soon start offering patients DNA sequencing as part of routine preventative care, the Danville, Pennsylvania-based health system's president and CEO Dr. David Feinberg announced Sunday at the HLTH Conference in Las Vegas.
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May 7, 2018, 09:52
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | The National Institutes of Health opened national enrollment for the All of Us Research Program this weekend with a nationwide launch featuring events in New York; Birmingham, Ala.; Nashville, Tenn.; Detroit, Mi.; Kansas City, Mo.; Chicago; and Pasco, Wash. The launch events were broadcast on the All of Us website and Facebook live.
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May 4, 2018, 12:49
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Michael Croft
Kaiser Health News | The saga of Martin Shkreli and Turing Pharmaceuticals focused a lot of attention on prescription drug prices, but no reversal of the exponential price increases for the lifesaving drug Daraprim resulted. The story offers an object lesson into the interworkings of the pharmaceutical market.
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May 2, 2018, 15:52
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Michael Croft
WAYNE, PA, UNITED STATES - May 2, 2018 - Bracket, a leading clinical trial technology and specialty services provider, has won the Best Patient-Focused Technological Development award at the Clinical and Research Excellence (CARE) Awards
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May 2, 2018, 08:45
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Michael Croft
Clinical Informatics News | Over five years ago, Ashish Atreja was intrigued with digital medicine and its potential to fill the gap between what hospitals and healthcare organizations wanted to be able to deliver for their patients and what they could deliver. Now, the Innovation Officer at Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai sees transformation for the entire industry in the next 5-10 years.
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May 1, 2018, 15:39
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Michael Croft
MIT News | Bringing drug trials to the virtual realm with phone, email, and video chat through her startup Science 37, MIT alumna Belinda H. Tan '96 has found a way to cut the process in half.
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Apr 30, 2018, 15:33
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Michael Croft
BALTIMORE, MD, UNITED STATES - Apr 30, 2018 - April 30, 2018 (Baltimore, MD) – Opal Group, a global conference organizer that caters to top executives and influencers, will bring together the foremost healthcare tech experts for its Healthcare IT & Analytics Summit 2018 on June 21-22, 2018
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Apr 30, 2018, 13:10
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Michael Croft
Clinical Informatics News | April was full of exciting news in the clinical trial and healthcare community, including partnerships, products, and promotions from Oracle, the College of American Pathologists, NVIDIA, and more.