• Clinerion, Novaseek, goBalto, And More: News From October 2017

    Oct 31, 2017, 09:10 by Michael Croft

    Clinical Informatics News | October was full of exciting news in the clinical trial and healthcare community, including partnerships, products, and promotions from Clinerion, Novaseek, goBalto, and more.

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  • Tech savvy ‘crucial’ to advancement in STEM careers, according to survey(1)

    Oct 30, 2017, 13:12 by Michael Croft
    - Oct 30, 2017 - Being tech savvy is critical to career advancement prospects for chemists, according to a survey of 186 chemistry professionals from industry and academia, carried out by Elsevier’s Reaxys team
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  • MintHealth launches blockchain-driven mobile health records platform

    Oct 27, 2017, 17:16 by Michael Croft
    MobiHealthNews |  MintHealth has announced the launch of its self-sovereign health record platform here at the Connected Health Conference in Boston. Powered by blockchain technology, the service allows patients to access their health records in real-time through a mobile or web app, and features a specialized digital currency as an incentive for preferred patient behaviors.
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  • Certara-Monash University Industry Fellowship Program Receives Funding from MTPConnect’s Project Fund Program

    Oct 26, 2017, 09:36 by Michael Croft
    MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Oct 26, 2017 - MTPConnect - the Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals Industry Growth Centre - today announced it will provide a proposed AUD750,000 provisional funding to the Certara-Monash University Industry Fellowship Program over two years, with proposed matched funding of AUD750,000 coming from Certara®
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  • Elsevier announces winners of the 2017 Reaxys PhD Prize

    Oct 25, 2017, 12:11 by Michael Croft
    SHANGHAI - Oct 25, 2017 - Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, announced the three winners of the 2017 Reaxys PhD Prize at its annual Symposium held in Shanghai, China
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  • ERT Support for New Drug Development Exceeds 10,000 Studies

    Oct 25, 2017, 10:45 by Michael Croft
    PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Oct 25, 2017 - ERT, a global data and technology company that minimizes uncertainty and risk in clinical trials, today announced it has reached a significant milestone in its nearly 50 year history: Global biopharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs) have relied on the company to accelerate their clinical development timelines in more than 10,000 studies worldwide
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  • Bracket Acquires mProve To Radically Advance Patient Engagement In Clinical Trials

    Oct 24, 2017, 12:00 by Michael Croft

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Bracket today announced the strategic acquisition of mProve. The acquisition centers on both companies' support of tech-enabled clinical trials that improve patient engagement through the use of "Bring Your Own Device" mobile tools in clinical trials.

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  • What Europe’s New Privacy Regulations Means For US Trials

    Oct 24, 2017, 09:25 by Michael Croft

    Clinical Informatics News | In less than eight months, The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect. The GDPR applies to all types of data, but it will have a special impact on clinical trials, even ones run by US companies.

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  • BioIVT Expands Its Support for Precision Medicine Researchers

    Oct 24, 2017, 09:14 by Michael Croft
    WESTBURY, NY - Oct 24, 2017 - BioIVT, a leading provider of biospecimens and related services, today announced that it is sponsoring the Powering Precision Health Summit (PPHS) 2017
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  • Former IBM Watson Health Head of West Coast Sales Joins Deep 6 AI

    Oct 23, 2017, 17:54 by Michael Croft
    PASADENA, CA - Oct 19, 2017 - Former IBM Watson Health sales executive, Bill Hutchins, is joining Deep 6 AI to to support the rapid expansion of its clinical trial patient recruitment platform across hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations
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  • Amazon Is About To Disrupt The Drug Industry, But Not The Way Most Think

    Oct 20, 2017, 17:14 by Michael Croft
    Forbes |  It's now a foregone conclusion that Amazon.com will enter the healthcare sector, but it likely won't be in the manner the financial markets and healthcare industry are anticipating.
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  • ICH E6 R2: Talking Big Pharma’s Response To The Addendum

    Oct 20, 2017, 10:50 by Michael Croft

    Clinical Informatics News Contributed Commentary | To better understand the impact of ICH E6 R2 and the perception of the new guidance by pharmaceutical companies, Tufts, CluePoints, and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) organized an industry roundtable, which sought to highlight the main aspects of the guidelines, how organizations are responding, and the challenges they now face in achieving a common level of understanding across their businesses.

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  • Genesis Clinical Trials ,2017

    Oct 19, 2017, 02:46 by Michael Croft
    FRANKFURT, GERMANY - Oct 11, 2017 - Platinum Global Solutions’ has continued its practice of promoting business development across all the Pharma/ Biotech companies through a healthy and constructive gathering from all the top leading Pharma/ Biotech companies from all across the world
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  • FDA Chooses Box for Cloud Content Management

    Oct 18, 2017, 11:25 by Michael Croft
    Clinical Informatics News Brief  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reportedly selected Box’s cloud content management platform to modernize its technical infrastructure and drive new ways to work in the cloud.
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  • Clinical Informatics News Welcomes 2018 Best Practices Entries

    Oct 18, 2017, 09:55 by Michael Croft

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical Informatics News is accepting entries to the 2018 Clinical Informatics News Best Practices competition.

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  • It’s About Time: Doing Things Right vs. Doing The Right Thing

    Oct 17, 2017, 09:25 by Michael Croft

    Clinical Informatics News | It’s About Time | Erica Heath, IRB Historian and Guru, wants to think long and hard about whether the clinical research enterprise should be doing things the right way — the culture of compliance — or going to the next step to doing the right things — the culture of conscience.

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  • Patient Engagement In Device Trials

    Oct 16, 2017, 15:15 by Michael Croft
    RAPS |  Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration's Patient Engagement Advisory Committee met for the first time to look at ways to increase patient engagement in clinical trials for medical devices.
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  • After 5 Years And 2 Clinical Trials, Patient #1 Stops Cancer Treatment

    Oct 16, 2017, 14:27 by Michael Croft
    Philly.com |  T.J. Sharpe, who shared his fight with Stage 4 Melanoma in the "Patient #1" blog, has recently decided to stop taking Merck's anti-PD-1 drug for treatment.
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  • Elsevier Donates Unified Data Model To The Pistoia Alliance

    Oct 13, 2017, 16:10 by Michael Croft

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Elsevier has announced it is donating its Unified Data Model to The Pistoia Alliance. It will now be developed and extended under the stewardship of The Pistoia Alliance, with the ultimate aim of publishing an open and freely available format for the storage and exchange of drug discovery data.

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  • FDA Vote Sets Stage For Gene Therapy’s Future

    Oct 12, 2017, 10:01 by Michael Croft
    MIT Technology Review |  A first-of-its-kind medical treatment that replaces a mutated gene with a correct copy could soon be available in the U.S.
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