Jul 9, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

Vox | An investigation into heart line catheter infections reveals the harm analysis strategies that let hospitals prevent deadly medical errors.

Jul 9, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WSJ | Leading hospitals such as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore look for clues in the wealth of information from past cases.

Jul 8, 2015, 12:00 by Michael Croft

Jul 8, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Jul 8, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced the merger of its consulting group, Pharsight Consulting Services (PCS), with Quantitative Solutions, a global pharmacometrics consulting company headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif

Jul 8, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

Xconomy | In the recent donnybrook between UC San Diego and the University of Southern California, the 24-year old Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study is what's at stake.

Jul 7, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WSJ | Yet another contract research organization in India is being scolded for its handling of clinical trial records.

Jul 7, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

MUNICH, GERMANY - Jul 7, 2015 - Definiens, the global leader in image analysis for digital pathology and diagnostics, today announced the launch of Tissue Studio® 4

Jul 6, 2015, 09:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Treato, a social media insights company that describes itself as the world’s largest “patient voice” source, has announced it will apply its big data infrastructure and technology to social media networks, giving patients a platform to discuss treatments and allowing the medical and business communities to gauge real-time patient attitudes, view social trends, and gain insights into their—and their competitors’—advertisements and products.

Jul 2, 2015, 10:55 by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | BabySeq, a study examining the health outcomes of sequencing newborns' genomes, has enrolled its first four subjects at Boston hospitals.

Jul 1, 2015, 12:40 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Clinical news and product briefs from around the industry, including a host of new trial management solutions unveiled at DIA 2015.

Jun 24, 2015, 14:15 by Michael Croft

Jun 23, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WSJ | A pair of lawmakers has reintroduced a bill designed to end a practice that generic drug makers complain is used by brand-name counterparts to thwart competition.

Jun 22, 2015, 09:00 by Michael Croft

Jun 22, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Jun 22, 2015 - ERT, a leading global provider of high-quality patient safety and efficacy endpoint data collection, cloud analytics and workflow solutions, today announced the appointment of Steve Nuckols to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

Jun 19, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Jun 19, 2015 - WIRB-Copernicus Group® (WCG), the world’s largest provider of regulatory and ethical review services and software to support clinical research, announced today that its 13th annual WCG International Fellows Program in Research Ethics now includes ethics training at New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center

Jun 18, 2015, 14:00 by Michael Croft

Jun 17, 2015, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Contributed Commentary | The cost-to-value equation for standardizing clinical data is broken. Pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars annually, and substantially delay products’ time to market, sending clinical data to contractors for preparation and integration before analysis. A complete view of all available clinical data would be incredibly useful for improving clinical analytics, simplifying cross-study comparisons, speeding future trials, and data mining for new indications. 

Jun 17, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

SAN DIEGO, CA - Jun 17, 2015 - Parallel 6, an innovator in enterprise mobile engagement and management solutions, and Sentrian™, the Remote Patient Intelligence™ company aspiring to eliminate all preventable hospitalization, announced today as technology partners, Clinical Reach’s Reachlink Connector will send patient data securely from the palm of the patients hand to Sentrian’s remote patient monitoring platform (Sentrian RPI)

Jun 17, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

mobihealthnews | Craig Lipset talks about the mobile clinical trial that failed, why, and what we can do moving forward.

Jun 16, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

mobihealthnews | PatientsLikeMe has announced a research partnership with the FDA: The agency will assess the platform's feasibility as a way to generate adverse event reports, which the FDA uses to regulate drugs after their release into the market.