• UCB Releases Virtual Assistant App For Parkinson's Patients

    Clinical Informatics News | UCB has released PD Coach, a virtual health assistant app for Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. The app is powered by Verint Systems’ Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) solution.

    Nov 16, 2018

  • Leveraging Clinical Data Standards to Optimize Business Outcomes

    Clinical Informatics News | In the almost two years since the FDA mandated compliance with the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium’s (CDISC) data standards, life sciences organizations have striven to adhere to these newly established guidelines for all clinical and non-clinical studies initiated after December 2016. There have been challenges, but the very real—and not inconsequential—operational and commercial benefits that clinical data standards offer the life sciences industry are becoming apparent.

    Nov 15, 2018

  • FDA Proposes Changes to Informed Consent Rules

    RAPS |  On Tuesday, FDA proposed changes that would allow Institutional Review Boards to waive or alter requirements for obtaining informed consent for certain clinical trials involving minimal risk to participants.

    Nov 14, 2018

  • High-Profile Startup Seeking To Connect Patients With Clinical Trials Shuts Down

    STAT | Driver, an ambitious startup marketing an app to match cancer patients with clinical trials, has shut down after running out of money just weeks following its high-profile launch.

    Nov 12, 2018

  • Blockchain And Healthcare Convene In Nashville For Distributed: Health

    Clinical Informatics News | Leaders in the healthcare and blockchain spaces came together for the third annual Distributed: Health conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Investors, healthcare providers, and researchers in on a key question: Where are we in the integration of blockchain and distributed ledger technology into the healthcare space?

    Nov 8, 2018

  • Why Doctors Hate Their Computers

    The New Yorker |  Atul Gawande on the promise of digitization to make medical care easier and more efficient, and whether screens may be coming between doctors and patients.

    Nov 8, 2018

  • It’s About Time That Medicare Advantage Stops Being A Disadvantage For Clinical Research Participants

    Clinical Informatics News | It’s About Time | Norman Goldfarb discusses the problems and confusions surrounding Medicare Advantage plans and clinical trials with Kelly Willenberg, Manager of Kelly Willenberg & Associates.

    Nov 7, 2018

  • The VA Shadow Rulers' Signature Program Is "Trending Towards Red"

    ProPublica |  A $10 billion technology upgrade championed by Jared Kushner and the Mar-a-Lago trio is at risk of failing the VA's 7 million patients.

    Nov 2, 2018

  • New Head For Renamed Icahn Institute At Mount Sinai

    Clinical Informatics News | Mount Sinai has named a new head for its Icahn Institute, and renamed the effort the Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology. Adam Margolin will lead the new enterprise-wide program, whose 10-year plan includes 55 new faculty and staff, new computational infrastructure, and an educational program to train master’s students and PhDs in biomedical data science.

    Nov 2, 2018