Clinical Informatics News Brief | Danny Wells, an informatic scientist at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, is featured on this podcast from Cambridge Healthtech Institute for the ImPACT Conference. Topics include scaling up personalized therapies, future clinical applications of neoantigens, and new frontiers in cancer immunotherapy.

Clinical Informatics News Contributed Commentary | More often than not, patients forget or lack the motivation to follow a care plan that requires frequent monitoring and documentation. For many diseases that can be self-managed, the tools that use traditional channels, such as web/mobile/text, fail to reach high adoption rates because using them is usually a complicated and cumbersome experience. In this context, voice, as a channel of communication, is positioned to be a game changer.

FDA Voice | Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration gives an update on their progress in meeting the goals initially established for the FDA’s Orphan Drug Act (ODA).

Clinical Informatics News | It’s About Time | Terry Stubbs, President & CEO of ActivMed Practices & Research, thinks it’s time that more sites need to take advantage of industry standards. “Sites of excellence understand that using internal and industry-standard procedures, training, forms, checklists, metrics, certifications, etc., not only save time, but also improve quality,” she says.

Clinical Informatics News | Maccabi Healthcare System is using Medial EarlySign’s clinical decision support tool to find colon cancer patients among individuals who didn’t go through traditional channels for screening.