Aug 7, 2014, 08:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Roundup | The experimental Ebola drugs given to two US aid workers are presenting huge challenges for the clinical trial and drug approval infrastructure.

Aug 6, 2014, 08:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | In 2003, The National Institutes of Health (NIH) reaffirmed its support for the concept of data sharing. Since then, competition is becoming collaboration, transparency is golden, and discovering cures may trump swelling market shares.

Aug 6, 2014, 07:00 by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | Cerner has agreed to buy Siemens' health IT unit for $1.3 billion.

Aug 5, 2014, 12:00 by Michael Croft

Pharmalot | A study published in Health Affairs has found that after the Prescription Drug User Fee Act was passed, the number of safety warnings and product withdrawals was higher than before.

Aug 5, 2014, 10:05 by Michael Croft

Healthcare Informatics | Stanford Medicine has become the first school to offer an accredited fellowship program in clinical informatics, following the approval of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Aug 4, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

CHATTANOOGA, TN - Aug 4, 2014 - TractManager, the leading provider of technology-enabled compliance and contract management services for healthcare organizations, marketed under MediTract, announced today that it acquired the business of MD Buyline, a portfolio company of SFW Capital Partners

Aug 1, 2014, 13:20 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | On Thursday afternoon, the FDA announced that it plans, for the first time, to regulate laboratory developed tests in the same way it does other diagnostics. Clinical Informatics News looks at the proposed regulations and what comes next.

Jul 31, 2014, 10:30 by Michael Croft

Bloomberg BNA | A workgroup centered on meaningful use guidelines for electronic health records has concluded that hospitals and providers have sharply limited ability to share patient records with one another.

Jul 31, 2014, 09:15 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Clinically relevant news and product releases from around the industry, including the rollout of the Open Medicine Institute's social health platform, and Oracle's new product suite for integrating clinical trial data.

Jul 31, 2014, 07:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Individualized medical geographic information systems (GIS) are poised to transform medicine, says noted futurist Dr. Eric Topol, MD, director of the Translational Science Institute at Scripps Research Institute. The decreasing cost of next generation sequencing, and the increasing power and omnipresence of smartphones suggest that we as a society are moving from the “lab on a chip” world to the “lab in a body” world.

Jul 30, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PITTSBURGH, PA - Jul 30, 2014 - Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud, today announced that the Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI) has chosen Avere for access to the world’s largest, centralized repository of whole genome sequence data

Jul 30, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

BISHOP'S STORTFORD, UK - Jul 30, 2014 - ~~Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, is pleased to announce Rusty Irving as the Head of North American Operations

Jul 29, 2014, 11:00 by Michael Croft

Matter | A two-part series at Matter looks at the underbelly of clinical trials: CROs that run most of their tests on homeless and mentally ill populations, and physicians who can no longer practice medicine, but still run trials.

Jul 29, 2014, 08:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | A new international company is attempting to match CROs and sponsor companies with investigators, clinical sites, and patients, help researchers save money, increase trial recruitment, and provide real-time data, all of which, it hopes, brings new therapies to market sooner.

Jul 29, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MA - Jul 29, 2014 - Boston Children's Hospital's Global Pediatric Summit + Awards, Taking on Tomorrow (#PedInno14), will feature an "Innovation Tank" - a forum designed to give pediatric health care innovators an opportunity to pitch their business or product solution to a panel of acclaimed judges for consideration of funding and feedback on how to accelerate the innovation and bring it to market

Jul 28, 2014, 12:00 by Michael Croft

Morning Consult | HIPAA was enacted in 1996, and it is causing some real challenges for health care groups as we move toward a more data-sharing, big data environment. Some are calling for a Congressional review of the act, but others think some questions should just be addressed.

Jul 28, 2014, 11:00 by Michael Croft

PharmaTimes | Cancer research groups are concerned about the informed consent language in the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, worrying it could impede cancer research.

Jul 25, 2014, 08:00 by Michael Croft

Wall Street Journal | Google's latest Google X project seeks to establish a medical baseline: a picture of what a healthy human looks like. For the Baseline Project, Google will collect fluid samples and genetic and molecular data--hundreds of data points--from anonymous patients without focusing on any disease area or condition.

Jul 24, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jul 24, 2014 - For Immediate release Rho Named a Best Place to Work byTriangle Business Journal for the Third Year in a Row   CRO recognized for its company culture and flexible environment   Chapel Hill, N

Jul 24, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Jul 24, 2014 - WIRB-Copernicus Group (“WCG”), the world’s largest provider of regulatory and ethical review services for clinical research, announced today that it has acquired Alliance Biosciences