Apr 13, 2016, 14:25 by Michael Croft

The New York Times |  Data from past clinical trials can be incredibly valuable but researchers rarely take advantage.

Apr 13, 2016, 11:44 by Michael Croft

FDA Voice |  FDA's Office of Generic Drugs releases its first annual report outlining the highest number of generic drug approvals and tentative approvals ever.

Apr 13, 2016, 10:15 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | In the closing plenary session of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last week in Boston, keynote speakers Yaron Turpaz of Human Longevity, Inc., Catherine Brownstein of Boston Children's Hospital, and Bill Evans of IBM Watson Health addressed the sticky question of how big data-driven healthcare can make the leap from high-priced luxury to standard practice.

Apr 12, 2016, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  | Making the case for industry-led standards and more open and transparent data sharing at the opening plenary session at last week’s Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Heidi Rehm, Ph.D., Director at Partners HealthCare Laboratory for Molecular Medicine and medical director at the Broad Institute Clinical Research Sequencing Platform, discussed the growing needs for improved clarity and consistency of genetic data for clinical and research purposes.

Apr 12, 2016, 10:39 by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC - Apr 12, 2016 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), is hiring a number of clinical research positions and will be looking to meet potential applicants in the field at the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) during the group’s 2016 Global Conference, being held April 16-19 in Atlanta, Georgia

Apr 12, 2016, 08:08 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Apr 12, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today launched the Simcyp In Vitro (Data) Analysis (SIVA) Toolkit 2

Apr 6, 2016, 14:25 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics World | The fourth annual Medical Informatics World Conference met this Monday and Tuesday in Boston, with discussions of interoperability in health record systems, designing a smart research environment in the hospital, and the surprising care insights to be found in population-scale patient data.

Apr 6, 2016, 03:52 by Michael Croft

ENSCHEDE, N/A, THE NETHERLANDS - Apr 6, 2016 - ANT Neuro b.v., part of neuromotion b.v., is pleased to announce its cooperation with MAG & More GmbH in offering high performance, top of the range navigated TMS solutions for the advanced applications in research and clinical care

Apr 1, 2016, 16:45 by Michael Croft

FARGO, ND - Apr 4, 2016 - CSM, a leading clinical trial supply company, today announced the promotion of Brian Swites to President, effective immediately

Mar 31, 2016, 10:55 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Twenty-three years after the National Institutes of Health created the Revitalization Act to increase the number of women and minorities in medical research, these groups remain vastly underrepresented in clinical trials. But, after all these years, a cure may finally be prescribed.

Mar 31, 2016, 10:15 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | The latest announcements and product launches from around the industry, including new partnerships in China's Precision Medicine Initiative, and networking technology for clinical trials from HealthCarePoint and ACRES.

Mar 29, 2016, 10:13 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Mar 29, 2016 - WIRB-Copernicus Group® (WCG™), one of the world's leading providers of solutions that measurably improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research, today announced that it has assembled a team of world-renowned experts to advise the company regarding the latest advances in gene therapy research

Mar 25, 2016, 12:45 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | 2016 Best Practices Awards | Science 37, a two-year old startup based in Culver City, California, was formed by experienced clinicians determined to re-imagine and bring disruptive change to the inefficient clinical trial process. The clinical trials-savvy judges agreed with this assessment and named Science 37 one of the winners of the 2016 Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Awards.

Mar 25, 2016, 08:54 by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews |  Cardiac rehabilitation patients who used a health app lost more weight following a heart attack than those who went through cardiac rehabilitation without one, according to a small Mayo Clinic study that will be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session in Chicago next week.

Mar 24, 2016, 08:25 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Mar 24, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that its regulatory and medical consultancy, Synchrogenix, has introduced an artificial intelligence- (AI-) enabled solution to meet the data transparency requirements of the clinical and drug development market

Mar 23, 2016, 09:50 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Clinical trials made publicly available are not being used to validate primary results, researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute have found. In three open access clinical trial databases, only 15.5% of the public data have been requested, and research proposals focused on epidemiological studies, subgroup analyses, analyses of the disease state, or predictors of treatment response, instead of confirmatory studies.

Mar 22, 2016, 10:35 by Michael Croft

HealthBlawg | As part of his ongoing series of conversations with medical informatics experts, David Harlow at HealthBlawg  talks with Nicholas Marko, Chief Data Officer at Geisinger Health System about the points of contact between clinical care and health IT.

Mar 22, 2016, 09:46 by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews |  At the same time as it announced CareKit, Apple announced in a press release that ResearchKit would be updated to more easily make use of users' genetic data, via a module designed by consumer genetics company 23andMe. Apple also added other modules for common medical tests to ResearchKit.

Mar 22, 2016, 09:12 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Mar 22, 2016 - WIRB-Copernicus Group® (WCG™), one of the world's leading providers of solutions that measurably improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research, today announced that the surgical innovation and oversight survey conducted by its Chief Medical Officer and President of Consulting Services Lindsay McNair, MD, MPH, MSB, and co-author Walter L

Mar 21, 2016, 10:50 by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Mar 21, 2016 - ERT, a leading provider of high-quality patient data collection solutions for use in clinical drug development, today announced it has received Omega Management Group Corp