Jan 16, 2015, 10:35 by Michael Croft

FiercePharmaMarketing | A study led by HealthPrize Technologies shows a boost in adherence to drug regiments for everything from acne to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease when patients are given points for engaging with mobile and digital health platforms.

Jan 15, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WSJ | In response to ongoing debate over access to clinical trial data, the Institute of Medicine has released a widely anticipated report that recommends government agencies and companies share data from research studies that they fund.

Jan 14, 2015, 09:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Eric Topol is a Scripps Translational Science Institute cardiologist and self-professed technophile, but this is not just a book about technologies.  Rather The Patient Will See You Now argues that patient engagement and the end of medical paternalism are key components of 21^st century healthcare.

Jan 13, 2015, 13:00 by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews | Partners HealthCare's Center for Connected Health is moving from the IT group to the connected care group, a move that heralds a shift in vision of health IT from IT to care delivery.

Jan 12, 2015, 13:00 by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews | Verizon stopped offering its patient-to-provider Virtual Visits product in October and pulled its FDA-cleared mobile app.

Jan 12, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - Jan 12, 2015 - Novella Clinical, a Quintiles company (Novella), and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) today announced a preferred provider collaboration that will offer a set of clinical trial services to developers of cardiovascular drugs and devices

Jan 9, 2015, 13:10 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | Foundation Medicine of Cambridge, Mass., continues to make the case for expansive next-generation sequencing tests as the front line of cancer diagnostics, with a new publication in Clinical Cancer Research co-authored by members of the company and researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Jan 8, 2015, 10:00 by Michael Croft

Jan 7, 2015, 15:00 by Michael Croft

Jan 6, 2015, 14:20 by Michael Croft

RAPS | The FDA has kicked off the new year by cleaning up its muddle of web pages for guidance documents, the crucial advisory papers that clarify the agency's position on niche types of drugs, medical devices and other regulated products.

Jan 6, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

COLUMBIA & BETHESDA, MD - Jan 6, 2015 - Columbia, MD and  Bethesda, MD - January 6, 2015 -  TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, today announced an extension of their collaboration with the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) to further hone the ASCB Science Navigator, a bespoke version of TEMIS Luxid® Navigator - Biopharma Edition, as a tool for biomedical research

Jan 6, 2015, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Jan 6, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development and drug safety consulting company, today announced that its regulatory and medical consultancy, Synchrogenix, has acquired ClinGenuity, the only artificial intelligence-assisted medical writing service in the pharmaceutical industry

Dec 30, 2014, 12:10 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | News and product releases from around the industry, including decision support guidelines for the use of genomic testing in cancer treatment, and a new platform for developing mobile health tools.

Dec 29, 2014, 12:20 by Michael Croft

Forbes | Bob Kocher and Brad Stulberg argue that increasingly complex drug regimens are running into a fundamental limit of the human mind, and that prescribing fewer drugs is the only way to ensure patients take their most important medications properly.

Dec 23, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | The biotechnology industry's two-year run of riches is at risk after a decision by the biggest U.S. drug manager to block one of the best-selling products in history.

Dec 22, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

The Independent | NHS patients in England will be the first in the world to participate in an ambitious government-led programme to sequence 100,000 genomes as part of a "paradigm shift" in healthcare focusing on the genetic causes of disease.

Dec 18, 2014, 08:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | IBM and Memorial Sloan Kettering announced yesterday a project to apply cognitive computing to the problems of melanoma diagnosis. IBM’s cognitive visual computing can be trained to identify specific patterns in images by gaining experience and knowledge through analysis of large collections of educational research data.  

Dec 18, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

mobihealthnews | New research suggests that digital health devices are crucial for those caring for family members. Caregivers use mobile health tools considerably more than the average American.

Dec 17, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WSJ | The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued revised guidelines for its examiners that should make it easier for drug makers and biotechs to obtain patents for their inventions.

Dec 15, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Dec 15, 2014 - WIRB-Copernicus Group (WCG), the world’s largest provider of regulatory and ethical review services and software to support clinical research, announced today that it has been chosen by Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (CTCA) to help expand its clinical research program