Feb 5, 2015, 10:40 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | The White House will announce tomorrow that Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration since 2009, is stepping down. Hamburg has led the agency through hugely consequential changes to its powers and regulatory authority over one of the longest terms as commissioner in FDA history.

Feb 3, 2015, 10:40 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | News and product releases from around the industry, including new analysis technology for Sequenom's non-invasive prenatal tests and Oracle's automated medication adherence tracker.

Jan 30, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

New England Journal of Medicine | Francis Collins and Harold Varmus discuss the President's Personalized Medicine Initiative.

Jan 28, 2015, 12:30 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | The House Committee on Commerce and Energy has published a draft version of the 21st Century Cures Act, a sweeping bill containing numerous changes to the FDA's powers to review and approve drugs and medical devices.

Jan 28, 2015, 12:00 by Michael Croft

Jan 27, 2015, 10:10 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | As the Department of Defense considers bids to replace its legacy EHR system with a modernized solution, it stands to create the nation's largest interconnected health IT system. That could have big repercussions for the future of EHR interoperability, population health, and coordinated care in the military and across the country.

Jan 27, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jan 27, 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) West Coast conference, being held February 3-4 in Burlingame, California

Jan 26, 2015, 15:35 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell today published a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine outlining near-term goals for influencing the direction of U.S. healthcare.

Jan 26, 2015, 10:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | PHT Corporation is expanding its rater training program that it first launched in November.

Jan 26, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WSJ | A bill was introduced in Congress last week that is designed to alleviate frustration drug makers have felt over a recent FDA guidance concerning fixed-dose combination drugs.

Jan 26, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES - Jan 26, 2015 - The pharmaceutical industry is further optimizing the collection of high quality electronic patient reported outcomes (ePROs) data for clinical research, with PHT CorporationRater Training programs

Jan 26, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WARSAW, POLAND - Jan 26, 2015 - KCR, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) operating across 19 European countries and in the U.S., is developing an innovative clinical trial data platform based on the Clincase electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM) software delivered by Quadratek Data Service

Jan 23, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WSJ | European regulators recommend suspending the sale of hundreds of drugs that were authorized for use across the continent based on "flawed" clinical studies that were conducted by GVK Biosciences, a clinical research organization based in India.

Jan 22, 2015, 12:00 by Michael Croft

Jan 22, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

Modern Healthcare | Ten years ago, President George W. Bush briefly mentioned electronic health records in a State of the Union address and the federal government is now in the midst of a multibillion dollar effort to promote the technology. Can the same thing happen with cybersecurity?

Jan 21, 2015, 15:00 by Michael Croft

Jan 21, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

Healthcare IT News | In the latest example of a world-class health system yanking its established electronic health record in favor of a blue chip vendor, Mayo Clinic is migrating to Epic.

Jan 21, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WSJ | Ida Sim, a professor of medicine and at the University of California, San Francisco and a member of an Institute of Medicine committee, discusses a new IOM report on sharing clinical trial data.

Jan 20, 2015, 11:00 by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews | FDA has published a draft guidance to help wellness device and app makers more clearly understand which products are subject to FDA regulation and which are not.

Jan 20, 2015, 10:00 by Michael Croft