Nov 22, 2013, 11:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Of the pain points in clinical operations, Infinata believes site surveys are one of the worst: a crucial step to study start up that is often painful and slow. The company invited representatives from the sponsor, CRO, and site communities to Boston last month to discuss needs, ideas, and solutions to the challenge. The company plans to use the results of the discussion to fine tune their forthcoming site survey product that they expect to launch in February.

Nov 21, 2013, 11:30 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | The prevalence of the common but little-understood anellovirus tracked closely with levels of immune suppression in a study of transplant patients published today in Cell.

Nov 19, 2013, 08:40 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | It has long been acknowledged that cancer screens in the elderly may do more harm than good, but precise age cut-offs are difficult to estimate and validate. A team from the National Cancer Institute believes that better life expectancy tables, taking into account patients' comorbidity, could improve quality of life for elderly patients by directing cancer screens toward those most likely to benefit.

Nov 18, 2013, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | President Obama has nominated Vivek Murthy, co-founder and Chairman of TrialNetworks, to serve as the 19th US Surgeon General.

Nov 15, 2013, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Nov 14, 2013, 09:30 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | You might be surprised how much fraud can flourish in the vendor networks of a large hospital system. Over the past year and a half, Florida's Memorial Healthcare System has used big data solutions to dig up fraud in its third-party contracts — with astonishing results.

Nov 11, 2013, 15:00 by Michael Croft

Government Health IT | The Electronic Health Record Association has released a letter affirming that EHR systems should not be treated as medical devices and should remain unregulated by FDA.

Nov 11, 2013, 12:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Clinical Informatics News is excited to announce that it is seeking submissions for the first Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Awards. This awards program seeks to recognize outstanding examples of applied strategic innovation—partnerships, deployments, and collaborations that manifestly improve the clinical trial process. The deadline for entry is December 16, 2013 and winners will be announced at the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE) in Miami in February 2014.

Nov 11, 2013, 11:30 by Michael Croft

University of Southampton | The FeverPAIN clinical test, when applied to patients complaining of sore throats, can offer greater precision in prescribing antibiotics without complicating clinicians' workloads.

Nov 8, 2013, 12:00 by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Bristol-Myers Squibb is making cuts to the clinical development/operations group it acquired when it picked up ZymoGenetics in 2010.

Nov 7, 2013, 14:00 by Michael Croft

Outsourcing Pharma | Covance and Pathoquest have signed an agreement to build an NGS-based biosafety assessment platform.

Nov 5, 2013, 15:00 by Michael Croft

TechDirt | There's been debate about whether clinical trials data should be made freely available. The European Medicines Agency had plans to release data, but AbbVie pharma objected.

Nov 5, 2013, 15:00 by Michael Croft

New York Times | When it comes to the dying, some skip the full clinical trial process and take drugs offered as "compassionate use". But does that route rob us of valuable clinical information?

Nov 5, 2013, 00:00 by Michael Croft

NOTTINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM - Nov 5, 2013 - Exco InTouch, the leading provider of patient engagement and data capture solutions for clinical research and healthcare providers, has been appointed to build a bespoke electronic data capture (EDC) system for the USA and International clinical researcher of the year awards- organized by Pharma Times

Oct 31, 2013, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Earlier this month, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued a qualification opinion on a statistical and modeling methodology for determining dose in clinical development.

Oct 30, 2013, 00:00 by Michael Croft

NOTTINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM - Oct 30, 2013 - Exco InTouch, the leading provider of patient engagement and data capture solutions for clinical research and healthcare providers, is taking part in an exclusive Johnson & Johnson Digital Health Masterclass , having been selected from over 130 companies to demonstrate the benefits of mHealth to the healthcare sector

Oct 29, 2013, 10:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News  The idea came to Greg Koski while sitting in an airplane. “The entire world has come to recognize that the process that we've evolved for trying to get a new medical product—whether it's a drug, a device, or biologic—actually properly tested and reviewed, marketed, is fraught with enormous problems,” Koski says, “not the least of which, is the enormous inefficiency, redundancy in the process.”

Oct 28, 2013, 15:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | With genetics moving confidently into the clinic, findings presented at the 2013 American Society of Human Genetics Meeting may have immediate clinical relevance. Here's what you might have missed.

Oct 23, 2013, 12:00 by Michael Croft

Government Health-IT | The National Institutes of Health have announced $79 million in fiscal year 2013 funding to support 15 Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA).

Oct 22, 2013, 14:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | DrugDev, an interactive network and data sharing platform for over 80,000 clinical trial doctors in 93 countries has acquired CFS Clinical (CFS), the leading specialty provider focused on the business and financial management activities for clinical trials.