May 5, 2015, 10:00 by Michael Croft

May 5, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY - May 5, 2015 - Medidata (NASDAQ: MDSO), the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, today announced the completion of an open-source connector linking Apple® ResearchKitTM with the Medidata Clinical Cloud® platform

Apr 30, 2015, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Apr 30, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

Reuters | A bill drafted by the House Energy & Commerce Committee's health panel would eliminate the need for randomized, controlled clinical trials, the gold standard for assessing whether a product is safe and effective.

Apr 29, 2015, 14:35 by Michael Croft

Nature News | Nicholas Schork argues for an industry-wide pivot to clinical trial designs that can adapt to patients' unique profiles and drug responses — whether through basket or umbrella trials, or by rethinking routine compassionate use and off-label therapy cases to be more readily aggregated across care centers.

Apr 28, 2015, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Apr 28, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Scanadu, a Mountain View, CA-based startup that's making a diagnostic device it likens to Star Trek's famous Tricorders, has received $35 million of Series B funding.

Apr 27, 2015, 12:10 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | CHICAGO—Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta had a problem. Research on neonates had shown that the higher the decibel level in the ICU, the longer the length of stay. Michael Thompson, vice president of business intelligence and data architecture at CHOA, discussed how he dealt with the problem at HIMSS. 

Apr 27, 2015, 10:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | News items and new products from around the industry, including Apple ResearchKit going open source, BaseHealth's enterprise launch, and the first full implementation of DrugDev's SiteCloud.

Apr 27, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES - Apr 27, 2015 -  PHT Corporation announced the selection of the Hewlett Packard (HP) ElitePad 1000 G2 with Windows 8

Apr 23, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Apr 23, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development consultancy and the non-profit Center for Information and Study of Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP), today announced an exclusive partnership to provide lay language clinical trial results to clinical trial volunteers

Apr 23, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Apr 23, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development consultancy, and CISCRP, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and informing the public and patients about clinical research, today announced that they are partnering to produce high-quality lay summaries of clinical trials

Apr 22, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Apr 22, 2015 - ERT, a leading global solutions provider for high-quality patient safety and efficacy endpoint data collection, today announced the launch of the Insights Cloud™, a suite of data analytics, visualization, and workflow applications that leverage real-time clinical trials data to provide clinical trial sponsors and CROs with actionable insights and process optimization

Apr 21, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Apr 21, 2015 - WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), will highlight its drug development services and expertise, including alleviating misconceptions around risk-based monitoring (RBM), to the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) during the group's 2015 Global Conference, being held April 25-28 in Salt Lake City, Utah

Apr 20, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Apr 20, 2015 - WIRB-Copernicus Group (WCG), the world's largest provider of regulatory and ethical review services for human research and a leading provider of software solutions designed to accelerate clinical trials safely, announced today that it will encourage members of its Global Research Network (GRN) to accept the Accelerated Clinical Trial Agreement (ACTA) as their default agreement for industry-sponsored, multi-center clinical trials

Apr 16, 2015, 12:35 by Michael Croft

Wall Street Journal | As electronic health record providers continue to explore ways that mobile devices could be integrated with patient information, one company plugged into the iPhone network is intrigued by the possibilities presented by the Apple Watch.

Apr 15, 2015, 11:30 by Michael Croft

Computerworld | After years of experiments using its Watson cognitive computing technology in medical settings, IBM announced this week the creation of a Watson Health business unit that will provide new capabilities in intelligent monitoring of patients' health data to flexibly improve care.

Apr 15, 2015, 09:00 by Michael Croft

Apr 15, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - Apr 15, 2015 - Medidata (NASDAQ: MDSO), the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, today announced that CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services (CTI), a therapeutically-focused, full-service contract research organization (CRO), is expanding its use of the Medidata Clinical Cloud® platform to improve operational efficiencies, data accessibility and decision-making processes for its clinical trials

Apr 14, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

ROCHESTER, NY - Apr 14, 2015 - The team behind Clinical Conductor CTMS recently debuted new functionality that allows healthcare organizations to better manage adaptive and dynamic clinical research that is becoming more relevant in the industry every year