• Certara Opens Larger Corporate Headquarters in Princeton, NJ(2)

    Mar 17, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Mar 17, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development and drug safety consulting company, today announced that as a result of its rapid growth, the company is moving its corporate headquarters to a larger location in Princeton, NJ
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  • Rho Showcases Clinical Services Expertise, Recruits New Employees at OCT Southeast

    Mar 17, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft
    CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Mar 17, 2015 - WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), will highlight its continued success in drug development strategies and services during the Outsourcing in Clinical Trials (OCT) Southeast conference, being held March 24-25 in Cary, North Carolina
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  • New Products and Solutions at SCOPE

    Mar 16, 2015, 11:00 by Michael Croft
    Clinical Informatics News | While the sessions at SCOPE were packed, there was quite a bit going on in the exhibit hall as well. Here are some of the updates and product announcements we picked up on site from GoBalto, AiCure, ePharmaSolutions, Parallax, and more. 
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  • Western Institutional Review Board Receives ISO 9001:2008 Certification

    Mar 16, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Mar 16, 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 Western Institutional Review Board® (WIRB®) company has been certified to ISO 9001:2008 by BSI, confirming that it operates an excellent quality management system
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  • ACRES and HealthCarePoint Collaborate Through BlueCloud

    Mar 11, 2015, 12:00 by Michael Croft
    Clinical Informatics News | The Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety—ACRES—has announced a collaboration with HealthCarePoint to launch ACRES BlueCloud, an integration platform for parties across the global clinical research enterprise.
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  • KCR Relocates Head Office to Berlin to Bring Business Closer to Clients

    Mar 10, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft
    BERLIN, GERMANY - Mar 10, 2015 - Contract Research Organization (CRO), KCR, which operates across 19 European countries as well as the U
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  • Patients and Innovation at SCOPE 2015

    Mar 9, 2015, 12:00 by Michael Croft
    Clinical Informatics News | The Summit for Clinical Ops Executives moved to Orlando this year, but the new location didn’t dampen the buzz in the exhibit hall or the session rooms, where conversations centered on innovation, the patient perspective, and finding tools to address the industry’s bottlenecks.
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  • A Profile in the Art of Clinical Trial Analysis

    Mar 9, 2015, 10:50 by Michael Croft
    The Economist | Over a 40-year career as a biostatistician specializing in the design of clinical trials, Susan Ellenberg has helped to mainstream and refine such essential principles as full data retention, surrogate endpoints, partnerships with patient advocacy groups, and interim analyses.
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  • France’s UNICANCER chooses TEMIS and SWORD to Accelerate Clinical Research by Analyzing Patients’ Electronic Health Records

    Mar 9, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft
    ROCKVILLE, MD - Mar 9, 2015 - Rockville, MD, USA - March 9th, 2015 - TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, today announced that its solution Luxid® has been chosen by  France's UNICANCER, the Federation of French Cancer Centers (CLCCs), as the semantic module for its ConSoRe (Continuum Soin-Recherche) project driven by SWORD Consulting and Services
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  • Wearables for Chronic Illnesses: Challenges and Opportunities in the Market

    Mar 5, 2015, 15:00 by Michael Croft
    Clinical Informatics News | Contributed Commentary | The U.S. spends more on healthcare than most other industrialized countries yet consistently ranks well below them in health outcomes. Nearly 85% of our health care dollars are spent on caring for chronic diseases, the most common, costly, and preventable of all health problems. These include diabetes, heart disease, and chronic pain from various causes; all of which require investments in monitoring, compliance, and behavioral change.  Could wearable technologies uniquely designed to help manage chronic disease provide a solution?
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  • Association for Molecular Pathology Releases Model for Pricing Genomic Tests

    Mar 5, 2015, 11:30 by Michael Croft
    Clinical Informatics News | The AMP has published a series of models estimating the cost and value of various testing procedures that involve broad next-generation sequencing of DNA samples and bioinformatics pipelines for analyzing the results.
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  • Medical Informatics World 2015 Preview

    Mar 4, 2015, 12:55 by Michael Croft
    Clinical Informatics News | The 2015 Medical Informatics World Conference will meet in Boston this May 4-5 to offer health IT professionals a chance to share their experiences in an evolving clinical landscape.
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  • Fat Chance FDA Chastises Orexigen for Disclosing Interim Trial Data

    Mar 4, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft
    Pharmalot | The FDA has publicly chastised a drug maker for unexpectedly disclosing interim study data for a medicine in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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  • February Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Mar 3, 2015, 09:20 by Michael Croft
    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical news and product releases from around the industry, including the first regulatory-cleared non-invasive prenatal test in Europe, and the resignation of Myriad Genetics' CEO.
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  • TEMIS Named to KMWorld’s 2015 List of “100 Companies that Matter In Knowledge Management”

    Mar 3, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft
    ROCKVILLE, MD - Mar 3, 2015 - TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, today announced that it was named by KMWorld Magazine to its prestigious list of “100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management”
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  • Rho Experts Discussing the New FDA Guidance on Data Standards during Free Webinar

    Mar 3, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft
    CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Mar 3, 2015 - WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), will provide valuable insight and important considerations for adopting the recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Guidance, "Providing Regulatory Submissions in Electronic Format - Standardized Study Data," through a free webinar
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  • Trial Powered by Clinpal a finalist in Eyeforpharma Barcelona Awards for the most valuable patient initiative

    Mar 2, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft
    STIRLING, UNITED KINGDOM - Mar 2, 2015 - eClinicalHealth Limited, a technology and consulting company dedicated to providing more efficient cloud-based clinical trial solutions, today announced that one of the trials it is supporting is a finalist to receive Eyefopharma's Most Valuable Patient Initiative award
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  • Clinical Informatics News Honors Best Practices from ePharmaSolutions, Dabo Health, CSM

    Feb 27, 2015, 16:00 by Michael Croft
    Clinical Informatics News | The winners of Clinical Informatics News’ Best Practices Awards were announced yesterday at the 2015 Summit for Clinical Ops Executives, SCOPE, in Orlando. Three grand prizes were awarded recognizing organizations’ outstanding use of information technology to improve patient services, clinical operations, and clinical trial management. Six additional companies were named finalists. 
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  • ERT Acquires PHT

    Feb 27, 2015, 10:00 by Michael Croft
    Clinical Informatics News | ERT announced this morning that it has acquired PHT Corporation. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, and the transaction is subject to regulatory review and is expected to close within the next several weeks.
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  • Pharma Proposes its own Plan for Updating Safety Warnings on Generics

    Feb 27, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft
    WSJ | The FDA has proposed a rule to allow generic drug makers to update product labels on their medicines when they learn of safety risks, but the pharmaceutical industry has countered with its own proposal.
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