• BioreclamationIVT Acquires Biospecimen and Research Services Provider Asterand Bioscience

    Aug 10, 2017, 10:18 by Michael Croft
    WESTBURY, NY - Aug 10, 2017 - BioreclamationIVT, a leading provider of biospecimens and related services, today announced that it has acquired Asterand Bioscience™, a global provider of high quality, well-characterized human tissue and research solutions with a focus on the oncology market
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  • Oracle Offers New Set Of Microservices With Clinical One Platform

    Aug 10, 2017, 09:25 by Michael Croft

    Clinical Informatics News | After years of development, Oracle Health Sciences has released the Clinical One platform, which offers tools for security, identity management, performance, disaster recovery, and availability.

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  • Certara Introduces Externalization Technology to its D360 Scientific Informatics Platform

    Aug 10, 2017, 08:28 by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Aug 10, 2017 - Certara®, the global leader in model-informed drug development and regulatory science, today announced that it has added externalization technology to its D360 scientific informatics platform
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  • Proposed and Final FDA Rules What’s Left in 2017

    Aug 9, 2017, 10:18 by Michael Croft
    RAPS |  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning to release seven proposed rules and six final rules to close out 2017, according to an updated list of Department of Health and Human Services rulemakings.
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  • Bioz, Inc. Continues Momentum with One Million-User Milestone

    Aug 8, 2017, 12:29 by Michael Croft
    PALO ALTO, CA - Aug 8, 2017 - Bioz, Inc., developers of the world’s first search engine for life science experimentation, today showcased continued corporate momentum, product innovation, customer traction and growth since the company emerged from stealth in July 2016
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  • It’s About Time: Stop the IRB as a Regulatory Compliance Committee

    Aug 8, 2017, 05:25 by Michael Croft
    Clinical Informatics News | It's About Time | Scott Lipkin, Managing Director at FTI Consulting, thinks it's high time that IRBs stop acting a regulatory compliance committees. "Few, if any IRBs have the expertise, time, or administrative resources to properly investigate and provide a determination of serious or continuing noncompliance, craft a management plan, and perhaps monitor corrective actions," he says. 
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  • Best Doctors acquisition will push Teladoc into chronic care hospital follow-ups

    Aug 7, 2017, 10:35 by Michael Croft
    MobiHealthNews |  Teladoc CEO Jason Gorevic certainly had a lot to talk about on yesterday's Q2 earnings call. Referencing the recent legislation in Texas and the company's acquisition of Best Doctors, Gorevic called Q2 2017 "the most exciting quarter in the company's history".
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  • TrialScope Launches Disclosure Tool

    Aug 4, 2017, 15:05 by Michael Croft
    Clinical Informatics News Brief | TrialScope yesterday launched Core Disclosure, enabling teams to approve disclosure content once and then reuse the disclosure data around the globe. The product is intended to promote a new level of data efficiency accuracy and alignment.
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  • Evidence for Health Decision Making — Beyond Randomized Controlled Trials

    Aug 4, 2017, 14:24 by Michael Croft
    New England Journal of Medicine |  Tom Frieden again weighs in with evidence for health decision making beyond clinical trials. "Although randomized, controlled trials have long been presumed to be the ideal source of data on the effects of treatment, other methods of obtaining evidence for decisions action are receiving increased interest," he writes.
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  • The Virtual Future of Payment Solutions

    Aug 4, 2017, 02:02 by Michael Croft
    PUNW, N/A, INDIA - Aug 4, 2017 - With the world going digital, payment solutions are slowly becoming an indispensable part of the online market experience
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  • Why The Gold Standard Of Medical Research Is No Longer Enough

    Aug 3, 2017, 10:28 by Michael Croft
    STAT |  Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, explains why he believes it's time to look beyond randomized controlled trials and use other study types to understand the "dark matter" of clinical medicine.
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  • WIRB-Copernicus Group, inVentiv Health, National Institutes of Health, And More: News From July 2017

    Aug 3, 2017, 05:30 by Michael Croft

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | News, products, and partnerships from around the clinical trial and healthcare community including news from WIRB-Copernicus Group, inVentiv Health, National Institutes of Health, and more.

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  • WIRB-Copernicus Group Acquires Patient Genesis’ ConsentNow eConsent Technology

    Aug 2, 2017, 10:47 by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Aug 2, 2017 - WIRB-Copernicus Group® (WCG™), the world’s leading provider of solutions that measurably improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research, today announced that it has acquired Patient Genesis’ ConsentNow™ eConsent technology
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  • ThoughtSphere Builds A Data Lake For Clinical Trials

    Aug 2, 2017, 05:10 by Michael Croft

    Clinical Informatics News | Our old ways of connecting to data are dead, Sudeep Pattnaik told me. ThoughtSphere is a data lake, an architecture meant to collect vast pools of data from varied sources, and it’s focusing on clinical research data.

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  • Vaccines are part of the solution to the crisis of antibiotic resistance

    Aug 1, 2017, 10:31 by Michael Croft
    STAT |  Wiser use of antibiotics is one solution to the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance. Wider use of vaccines is another.
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  • Governance In Pharmaceutical Projects

    Jul 28, 2017, 09:15 by Michael Croft

    Clinical Informatics News Contributed Commentary | The scientific, technical, and regulatory challenges related to drug development have created complexities. Such complexities include pharma project challenges and the function and objectives of a successful Enterprise Project Management Office.

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  • Ennov EDC Receives CDISC ODM Certification

    Jul 27, 2017, 10:33 by Michael Croft
    GREENSBORO, NC - Jul 27, 2017 - Ennov, a leading provider of regulated content management solutions for the Life Sciences industry, announced today that its Electronic Data Capture (EDC) solution, Ennov Clinical EDC, has recently received the Operational Data Model (ODM) certification by the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
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  • Big And Small Companies See Clinical Trial Transparency Differently Says TrialScope CSO

    Jul 26, 2017, 09:05 by Michael Croft

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical trial disclosure is now mandated by both FDA and EMA, but TrialScope’s Thomas Wicks believes there much more to clinical trial transparency than simply the letter of the law. And he sees a big difference in how large and small companies are dealing with it.

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  • BioreclamationIVT Appoints Vice President of Global Quality and Compliance

    Jul 26, 2017, 08:06 by Michael Croft
    WESTBURY, NY - Jul 26, 2017 - BioreclamationIVT, a leading provider of biospecimens and related services, today announced that it has appointed Karen Sasse to the newly-created position of vice president of global quality and compliance
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  • Ennov Clinical EDC Version 8 Released

    Jul 25, 2017, 13:46 by Michael Croft
    GREENSBORO, NC - Jul 25, 2017 - Ennov, a leading provider of regulated content management solutions for the Life Sciences industry, announces the release of version 8 of its Electronic Data Capture (EDC) solution, Ennov Clinical EDC
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