Oct 17, 2016, 10:39 by Michael Croft

THCB |  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) just released the final regulations for the most ambitious attempt in U.S. history to transform how medical care is delivered and paid for. But is it good for patients?

Oct 14, 2016, 13:39 by Michael Croft

AUSTIN, TX - Oct 13, 2016 - ePatientFinder®, a leader in electronic health record (EHR)-driven clinical trial recruitment, today announced a partnership with M3 Inc

Oct 14, 2016, 12:06 by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews |  It's been a big couple of days for Apple's Apple Watch, which came out ahead in a small study published in the Journal of American Medical Association Cardiology journal yesterday. Additionally, news broke today of two patents that could predict some intriguing future features for the device, and Politico reported on a potential new healthcare use case with the device.

Oct 14, 2016, 12:04 by Michael Croft

THCB |  Andy Slavitt writes that CMS has listened to clinician feedback in finalizing the implementation of MACRA. "The policy released today is the first step in a multi-year journey in which we are particularly focused on allowing clinicians to transition at their own pace," he says.

Oct 13, 2016, 15:55 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | Veeva announces EDC and eSource to improve the speed and quality of data to cut cost and complexity in clinical trials. Veeva has also expanded its leadership team across product management and cloud software development.

Oct 13, 2016, 08:12 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Oct 13, 2016 - Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced that Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) Hospital in Beijing, China, and Keio University in Tokyo, Japan have become Phoenix® Centers of Excellence

Oct 12, 2016, 06:52 by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Oct 12, 2016 - ERT, a leading provider of high-quality patient data collection solutions for use in clinical drug development, today announced the appointment of Dr

Oct 11, 2016, 11:30 by Michael Croft

FDA Voice |  Janice Soreth shares updates on the FDA's plan to advance the inclusion of diverse populations in clinical trials.

Oct 11, 2016, 11:15 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Speeding therapies to market is at the heart of the newly organized Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE), an initiative meant to support an integrated approach to evaluating products for cancer detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. Committed to meeting the needs of patients, OCE, a virtual center within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will coordinate and review all cancer treatments coming before the agency—drugs, biologics, and diagnostics—instead of continuing with separate review in different silos.

Oct 7, 2016, 13:04 by Michael Croft

Forbes |  Even if ALZ-801 proves to be effective in 15% of AD patients, it would be a big breakthrough in a disease where a breakthrough is desperately needed.

Oct 7, 2016, 07:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Astellas Ocology has announced five finalists for its C³ prize. The finalists include Prostmate, OnComfort, and Bioinformatix’s Rx&You.

Oct 6, 2016, 07:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | A group of stakeholders recently published a list of recommendations in BMJ to improve adverse event reporting in clinical trial publications.

Oct 5, 2016, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Last week Boston-based startup Circulation announced its non-emergency medical transportation pilot program in conjunction with Uber. The pilot program is testing Circulation’s transportation platform at hospitals and care facilities in Boston, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.  

Oct 5, 2016, 08:42 by Michael Croft

BETHESDA, MD - Oct 5, 2016 - The International Biomedical Research Alliance, a non-profit organization which provides programming and funding support for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, today announced that Jeffrey I

Oct 4, 2016, 09:50 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Contributed Commentary | Clinical trials are becoming more complex as new designs are introduced. The challenge in clinical supply forecasting is to set the threshold of supplies for enrolling sites as low as possible but as high as necessary, taking into account all variable factors as well as required stocking of the depots, expiration date and the overall availability of the clinical drug.

Oct 3, 2016, 12:43 by Michael Croft

PASADENA, CA, UNITED STATES - Sep 29, 2016 - Deep 6 Analytics is excited to have been chosen by Healthbox as one of 10 healthcare technology companies for its Chicago Studio program

Oct 3, 2016, 11:54 by Michael Croft

New York Times |  Atopic dermatitis causes itching so extreme that many patients consider suicide. In trials, most patients said symptoms waned in the first two weeks of taking a new drug.

Oct 3, 2016, 10:37 by Michael Croft

The New York Times |  A cell biologist, Dr. Ohsumi was recognized for his work on autophagy, the process by which cells recycle their content.

Sep 29, 2016, 11:20 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Briefs | New partnerships and products from the Duke Clinical Research Institute, goBalto, Medidata, and more.

Sep 28, 2016, 13:30 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Companies such as TrialsLoop and Genospace are looking to provide services that open links between clinical trials and their participants that will benefit the medical community and, ultimately, the world we live in.