Jul 23, 2014, 07:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | PierianDx is commercializing Washington University’s Clinical Genomicist Workstation (CGW), and is offering the software-as-a-service tool through a HIPAA-compliant cloud. The first two customers are Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and Fletcher Allen Health Care, affiliated with the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

Jul 22, 2014, 08:00 by Michael Croft

ProPublica | Doctors hoping to review recorded payments from pharma, which are required to be disclosed later this year as part of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, are having trouble with the online database.

Jul 22, 2014, 07:50 by Michael Croft

Outsourcing Pharma | Clinical trials in India look to be rebounding 76 trials were approved from January to May 2014, compared to only 24 approved over the same period in 2013.

Jul 21, 2014, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Boston Globe | While most in clinical-IT believe that electronic health records are absolutely necessary and will improve medicine and patient care, some groups are blaming forced adoption for medical errors and even deaths.

Jul 21, 2014, 08:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Thanks to technology innovations, health and wellness treatment has become accessible to patients in ways never available before. The same is true in clinical trials. Focusing on activity monitors, there is a wealth of clinical applications explored in academia that may yield potential clinical trial benefits.

Jul 18, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

LONDON, UK - Jul 18, 2014 - Deallus Consulting is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Claudio D’Ambrosio as the new Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 September 2014

Jul 17, 2014, 09:50 by Michael Croft

Healthcare IT News | A new report from the California Healthcare Foundation looks at gaps in the health data privacy and security protections contained in the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) when it comes to the activities of data brokers.

Jul 16, 2014, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | Matthew Herper has a breakdown of the Roche’s failed Alzheimer’s trial data at Forbes today. While the trial itself didn’t succeed, Herper argues that it could still provide some hope for Alzheimer’s treatment, and suggest better trial design.

Jul 16, 2014, 08:00 by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | Johnson & Johnson is working hard to revive its consumer division, which could potentially add $500 million to JNJ's annual bottom line, supporting the more research intensive drug and device businesses.

Jul 16, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

ROCHESTER, NY, UNITED STATES - Jul 16, 2014 - The Clinical Conductor CTMS team is proud to announce yet another major advancement in CTMS technology

Jul 16, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jul 16, 2014 - David Hall Joins Rho as Principal Investigator of BioinformaticsGenome informatics specialist played central role in business development activities resulting in award of more than $40M in federal contracts with bioinformatics and -omics focus Chapel Hill, NC  ̶  DATE  Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, today announced that David Hall has joined its team as a principal investigator (PI) specializing in bioinformatics at its Research Triangle Park headquarters in North Carolina

Jul 15, 2014, 11:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | In response to increasing pressure on biopharmaceutical sponsors to offer lower-cost, shorter-duration, and patient-centered clinical trials, a pharma veteran has started a company offering patient feedback—before trials—designed to help sponsors and patients by improving patient experience and reducing clinical trial cost and time.

Jul 10, 2014, 10:15 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | As Daktari Diagnostics field tests its cassette-sized CD4 counter in low-income nations of sub-Saharan Africa, it sees a real need to provide up-to-minute data to central labs, wherever the instruments travel.

Jul 8, 2014, 10:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | In mid-June, FDA released two draft guidances on how companies should deal with social media and sponsored links. Now the Agency has issued a letter to Gilead Sciences requesting that the company discontinue use of a sponsored Google link for Gilead's Viread, an FDA-approved treatment for chronic hepatitis B, because the links constitute misbranding under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Jul 8, 2014, 07:00 by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | After difficulties with a Japanese trial that started almost a year ago and culminating in an office raid last month, Novartis has released new guidelines for clinical trials.

Jul 8, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MA, USA - Jul 8, 2014 - Boston Children's Hospital today announced the creation of two new annual awards that will be conferred at the Global Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards, Taking on Tomorrow  (#PedInno14), taking place October 30-31, 2014, at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston

Jul 7, 2014, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Philadelphia Inquirer | In the wake of GlaxoSmithKline's recent patient recruitment debacle, A Philadelphia Inquirer column asserts that hiring patient recruiters isn't even necessary in the first place.

Jul 7, 2014, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Forbes | Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are not interested in making Google a health care company, the two said at a recent CEO conference.

Jul 7, 2014, 11:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | PHT Corporation is making its electronic patient reported outcome diary, LogPad, available on Android devices, and is specifically provisioning the Nexus consumer phone from Google and LG Electronics.

Jul 3, 2014, 07:50 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | As the rise of smart phones and social media opens new windows into people's daily lives, the Partners HealthCare Center for Connected Health is borrowing tricks from the ad industry, to seamlessly integrate its health messaging into patients' routines without shaming or lecturing.