Jun 13, 2016, 11:52 by Michael Croft

Slate Magazine |  Over the last two decades, the term HIPAA has effectively become synonymous with medical privacy. But guarding medical privacy was not, and is not, its only goal. HIPAA was enacted to facilitate the necessary flow of health information while taking care not to compromise patient control.

Jun 13, 2016, 11:26 by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews |  Austin, Texas-based ePatientFinder raised $8.2 million to build out its Clinical Trial Exchange platform.

Jun 8, 2016, 16:55 by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jun 8, 2016 - WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), is making the most of its presence at one of the industry's leading events by seeking out talent to fill a number of clinical research positions during the Drug Information Association (DIA) 2016 Annual Meeting, the largest global interdisciplinary event for disciplines involved in the discovery, development and life cycle management of health care products

Jun 8, 2016, 08:18 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Jun 8, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Veterinary Medicine has extended its five-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the company until 2020

Jun 7, 2016, 17:21 by Michael Croft

MUNICH, UNITED STATES - Jun 7, 0016 - Definiens, the pioneer in Tissue Phenomics solutions for diagnostics development and commercialization, today announced a partnership agreement with MolecularMD to combine MolecularMD’s expertise in specialty diagnostic assays with Definiens’ quantitative tissue read-outs

Jun 7, 2016, 11:26 by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jun 7, 2016 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, was recently honored as part of the clinical trial team for the LEAP Trial: Randomized Trial of Peanut Consumption in Infants at Risk for Peanut Allergy

Jun 7, 2016, 05:10 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Since its founding in 2010, Transparency Life Sciences (TLS) has been on a mission: to build a culture and a platform for moving clinical trials out of the existing healthcare system. It plans to accomplish this via new methods for designing and executing clinical trials through the use of  crowdsourcing and digital technology.

Jun 2, 2016, 12:48 by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World |  News and product notes from Bioclinica, Genentech, Janssen, and more.

Jun 2, 2016, 08:13 by Michael Croft

BETHESDA, MD - Jun 2, 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 Harold Varmus, MD, is joining the Alliance’s board of directors

May 31, 2016, 16:51 by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - May 31, 2016 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, recently announced that the company was named the 2016 Best CRO by Triangle Business Journal, a multimedia source for local business news, research and events in the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill region of North Carolina, where Rho is headquartered

May 27, 2016, 15:01 by Michael Croft

STAT |  A clinical trial in France went horribly wrong. Now the European Medicines Agency is reviewing the guidelines for first-in-human studies to identify which areas need to be revised in order to avoid a repeat of the tragedy, and a report is expected to be completed by July.

May 25, 2016, 15:23 by Michael Croft

PMLiVE |  Celgene and TriNetX will work to use Celgene's EMR data to support clinical study and protocol design, site selection, and patient recruitment across a range of therapeutic areas.

May 25, 2016, 10:26 by Michael Croft

STAT |  Vice President Joe Biden will host a national cancer summit in Washington on June 29 to support his "moonshot" initiative.

May 25, 2016, 08:10 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - May 25, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, in partnership with The University of Manchester, successfully organized the first-ever Health Care Summit on Model-based Precision Dosing on May 19-20 in the UK

May 24, 2016, 15:56 by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - May 24, 0016 - Rho Donates $28,000 to the March of DimesChapel Hill-based company hosts a variety of employee events to help raise funds for charity Chapel Hill, NC  ̶  May 24, 2016  ̶  Rho, a Chapel Hill-based full-service contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a complete range of product development services, announced today that it has donated $28,000 to the March of Dimes

May 24, 2016, 13:27 by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews |  Nearly a year after stepping down as CEO of Practice Fusion, Ryan Howard has announced his new venture, started with a team of other former Practice Fusion colleagues. The company is called iBeat, and its first product will be a wearable personal emergency response system (PERS) device aimed at the 50 to 70-year-old market.

May 24, 2016, 05:45 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Winner | Determined to re-define the treatment landscape for ALS, the Neurological Clinical Research Institute (NCRI) at Massachusetts General Hospital, in collaboration with Prize4Life, a not-for-profit dedicated to discovering treatments and cures for ALS, have created a platform to drive innovation in ALS research known as PRO-ACT.

May 20, 2016, 10:30 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Best Practices Finalists | When clinical study reports can run up to 30,000 pages, redacting patient and company confidential information by hand is laborious and expensive. Synchrogenix uses artificial intelligence to automate the process.

May 19, 2016, 10:50 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Taha A. Kass-Hout, FDA’s Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO) and Director of FDA’s Office of Health Informatics, and colleagues outline the precisionFDA Challenges.

May 19, 2016, 09:14 by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews |  Teladoc plans to launch its first chronic condition management program by the end of the year, CEO Jason Gorevic revealed at a session toward the end of the American Telemedicine Association convention in Minneapolis.