Oct 30, 2014, 09:25 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Contributed Commentary | Adopting an electronic trial master file for collaborative clinical trials will be increasingly important for maintaining regulatory compliance in a cost-effective and timely manner — but also requires careful thinking about standard frameworks for use across trial stakeholders.

Oct 30, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY - Oct 30, 2014 - Medidata (NASDAQ: MDSO), the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, today announced that it has signed an enterprise agreement with ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, an oncology-focused biotechnology company

Oct 29, 2014, 10:25 by Michael Croft

Mosaic Science | Author Alexander Masters delves into the legal and ethical obstacles to a plan for funding high-risk, rare-indication clinical trials: let the ultra-rich suffering from rare diseases fund trials that they or their loved ones can participate in.

Oct 28, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WARSAW, POLAND - Oct 28, 2014 - KCR, a European Contract Research Organization (CRO) operating across 19 European countries and in the US, has turned to the cloud in a move to improve cross-functional collaboration and trial operations

Oct 27, 2014, 08:50 by Michael Croft

MedPage Today | John Fauber and Elbert Chu examine the pharmaceutical industry's growing reliance on surrogate endpoints, like "progression-free survival," to gain approval of new drugs.

Oct 24, 2014, 08:25 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | The NIH-funded consortium ClinGen has partnered with Geisinger Health System to launch GenomeConnect, an online portal where patients who have undergone genetic testing can share their health histories anonymously with researchers and other, similar patients.

Oct 23, 2014, 12:05 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | As the biopharmaceutical industry turns to large, multimember collaborations through the cloud, digital signatures are becoming an essential security and authentication measure, creating a need for new global standards.

Oct 21, 2014, 12:15 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | With patient-level data from over 1200 clinical trials at nine pharma companies now available through the GlaxoSmithKline-founded data sharing portal, the review board tasked with approving data access for researchers has published its initial thoughts on the system.

Oct 21, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Oct 21, 2014 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) providing clinical research services in both the commercial and federal market, has been awarded the renewal of their existing federal contract with the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

Oct 17, 2014, 11:05 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Foundation Medicine, provider of the FoundationOne tests for cancer mutations, has announced an agreement with Michigan-based insurer Priority Health to cover both of the company's flagship tests.

Oct 16, 2014, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Medical Economics | A survey of physicians finds that, despite widely aired concerns that electronic health records are interfering with clinical practice, a slight majority feel their patient care has benefited from implementing an electronic records system.

Oct 15, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

ROCHESTER, NY, UNITED STATES - Oct 15, 2014 - The team behind Clinical Conductor is proud to announce brand new enhancements to the industry-leading CTMS

Oct 14, 2014, 08:55 by Michael Croft

Wired | A limited pool of users who search for medical symptoms on Google are now being offered the option to speak with health professionals in live video chats.

Oct 14, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WARSAW, POLAND - Oct 14, 2014 - KCR Date Forecaster, first mobile application by KCR, European Contract Research Organization, provides patients with smart scheduling and automatic reminders for doctor’s appointments and medical examinations

Oct 14, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WARSAW, POLAND - Oct 14, 2014 - KCR Date Forecaster, first mobile application by KCR, European Contract Research Organization, provides patients with smart scheduling and automatic reminders for doctor’s appointments and medical examinations

Oct 9, 2014, 11:40 by Michael Croft

CommonHealth | Two years after passage of a Massachusetts law requiring private health insurers to publicly display the prices for healthcare services they negotiate with care centers, all of the state's major insurers have complied.

Oct 8, 2014, 11:45 by Michael Croft

Government Health IT | A legal analysis in the Ave Maria Law Review suggests that data contained in electronic health records would be inadmissible in court, as its reliability could be compromised by misaligned incentives.

Oct 7, 2014, 08:50 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Contributed Commentary | The move away from 100% source data verification is not only shaping up to be a major driver of efficiency in clinical trials, it is also increasingly within reach for even smaller sponsors and CROs thanks to experience identifying key data points and new visualization tools to spot trends in the source data.

Oct 6, 2014, 07:50 by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | It has now been widely reported that an oversight in Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital's electronic medical record system contributed to the discharge without a diagnosis of the U.S. patient later diagnosed with the ebola virus, but policy experts note that human error should also be considered a factor.

Oct 3, 2014, 08:10 by Michael Croft

PharmaTimes | The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has finalized its policy on clinical study transparency, following an April vote of the European Union to require all clinical trial results to be openly published.