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Geisinger Health System and UC Berkeley Collide

Mar 18, 2016, 07:15 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | The Collider Project between UC Berkeley and Geisinger Health allows students to collaborate with an industry partner on data blending.
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Joe Martinez to Join Center Point Clinical Services as Chief Executive Officer

Mar 17, 2016, 11:05 by Michael Croft

MINNETONKA, MN - Mar 17, 2016 - Center Point Clinical Services LLC announced today that it has appointed Joe Martinez as Chief Executive Officer
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A Peek at Our Agendas for Medical Informatics World

Mar 17, 2016, 10:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | The Medical Informatics World Conference returns to the Boston Seaport this year, running just before Bio-IT World and featuring a host of excellent speakers and presentations. Here are some of the sessions we have flagged.
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21 clinical trials that are using Fitbit activity trackers right now

Mar 17, 2016, 09:54 by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews | Consumer activity trackers are inexpensive, user friendly, and reasonably accurate, so it's not surprising that as their public profile has grown, so have the number of researchers using them in clinical trials. We did a search of ClinicalTrials.gov for "Fitbit" -- just one of the activity trackers out there, but one of the most popular and high profile -- and found a surprising number of in-progress trials.
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Physician-Patient Collaboration: Dr. Danny Sands

Mar 15, 2016, 16:04 by Michael Croft

HealthBlawg | Health doesn't happen in the doctor's office. Now more than ever, patients and physicians must collaborate on care that exists between visits. Danny Sands, a Harvard physician and a speaker at the upcoming Medical Informatics World conference discusses collaborative care.
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Fatal Mistakes

Mar 15, 2016, 10:25 by Michael Croft

Vox | Preventable medical errors are a common cause of death in the United States. Being involved in one can also do serious, even irreparable, harm to caregivers.
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“The importance of the data does not change” - Interview with Joette Keen, KCR’s Head of Biometrics and Clinical Trial Data Execution Systems (BMX)

Mar 15, 2016, 06:12 by Michael Croft

, GERMANY - Mar 15, 2016 - Berlin - 15 March 2016 - KCR's Joette Keen talks about her transition to CRO, after spending years in pharma, and how does she see data management role in the ever-changing clinical trials worldx
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Seven Tips to Use Social and Digital Media to Recruit and Engage with Clinical Trial Patients

Mar 11, 2016, 10:35 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Contributed Commentary | Social and digital media are important tools for reaching various patient populations. CROs are increasingly seeing the value of these mediums for recruiting patients and engaging with them during clinical studies. Social media can be more cost effective when compared to other advertising channels such as TV, newspaper, and radio ads because of its ability to more narrowly target an audience of interest.
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Clinical Research Services Provider Clintrax Global Joins WIRB-Copernicus Group

Mar 9, 2016, 09:14 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Mar 9, 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 Clintrax Global has joined its family of companies
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Unified Approaches to Rare Disease Research

Mar 8, 2016, 13:50 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Rare Disease Day aims to increase awareness of rare diseases and their impact on patients, families, and medical professionals, hundreds of organizations are helping doctors find diagnoses and sufferers find solace. But, for a majority of the 350 million rare disease victims worldwide, hope is elusive and cures are as rare as the illnesses from which they suffer.
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Rho Supports Follow-up Study Demonstrating Benefit of Early Peanut Consumption is Maintained Following One Year of Peanut Avoidance

Mar 4, 2016, 15:19 by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Mar 4, 2016 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, is part of a newly published clinical trial that found that children who consumed peanut-containing foods regularly from infancy to age five and then avoided peanut for one year did not become allergic to peanut
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DrugDev, Exostar Link Global Identifiers

Mar 3, 2016, 12:50 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | DrugDev and Exostar yesterday announced they will combine Exostar’s identity credential with the DrugDev Golden Number, linking their unique global identifiers for clinical operations personnel and facilities.
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Sage Bionetworks releases data from first six months of Parkinsons mPower ResearchKit study

Mar 3, 2016, 11:58 by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews | Sage Bionetworks, a nonprofit biomedical research organization that developed the ResearchKit app mPower, has announced that it will release the first six months of data from the app. mPower, a Parkinson's-focused app, was one of the first five ResearchKit studies announced at Apple's launch of the kit in March 2015.
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Blackford Middleton on Clinical Decision Support & More

Mar 3, 2016, 09:02 by Michael Croft

HealthBlawg | Middleton engaged in a bit of blue-sky prognostication: "Five or ten years from now we'll have nearly complete adoption of health IT infrastructure across the land. I think we'll have most healthcare transactions and information exchange automated."
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Supreme Court Strikes At States' Efforts on Health Care Transparency

Mar 2, 2016, 11:13 by Michael Croft

NPR | The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can't require many large employers to submit health care claims to a massive database. The decision means Medicare data will remain the go-to source for now.
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DrugDev and Exostar Collaborate to Streamline and Secure Clinical Trial Process by Linking Exostar Identity Credential with the DrugDev Golden Number

Mar 2, 2016, 10:44 by Michael Croft

KING OF PRUSSIA PA AND HERNDON VA, PA, UNITED STATES - Mar 2, 2016 - DrugDev and Exostar took a major step today in helping the pharma and CRO industry improve and secure clinical trial master data management as the two companies announced they will combine the power of their unique global identifiers for clinical operations personnel and facilities
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WIRB-Copernicus Group Helps Develop Ethics Tool Kit for Clinical Research Protocols; Resulting Product Published in Journal of Medical Ethics

Mar 2, 2016, 09:05 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Mar 2, 2016 - WIRB-Copernicus Group® (WCG), the world's largest provider of regulatory and ethical review services and software to support clinical research, today announced the publication of an innovative Ethics Tool Kit in the Journal of Medical Ethics
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Cypralis Limited Announces Appointment of Dr Michael Peel as Chief Scientific Officer

Mar 2, 2016, 07:00 by Michael Croft

ONGAR, UNITED KINGDOM - Mar 2, 2016 - Cypralis, a life sciences company focussed on the discovery of novel therapeutics based on modulation of peptidyl-prolyl isomerases (PPIases), has appointed Dr Michael Peel as Chief Scientific Officer
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February Clinical News and Product Briefs

Mar 1, 2016, 10:35 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | The latest products and announcements from around the industry, including a pediatric cancer genomics platform at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and PwC's consumer health accelerator DoubleJump Health.
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Cloudera Participating in President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative

Feb 29, 2016, 13:47 by Michael Croft

FierceBigData | The company will provide training for researchers and free storage, processing, and analytics for 50 institutions.
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