• Building and Filling Patient-Centered Trials

    Clinical Informatics News | As drug discovery moves toward more personalized treatments, patient recruitment and patient-centered trial design is paramount. Well-enrolled, successful, cost-effective trials turn on the patients. An upcoming two-part event will delve into solutions for these issues. 

    Sep 4, 2013

  • Moffitt Appoints Director for Personalized Medicine Institute

    Tampa Bay Business Journal | Moffitt Cancer Center has appointed Howard McLeod as the director of the new DeBartolo Family Personalized Medicine Institute.

    Sep 4, 2013

  • Clinical Conductor Site CTMS Deployed at Over 1,600 Sites

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Bio-Optronics, developer of the Clinical Conductor Site CTMS, has launched the product at over 1,600 clinical research sites around the world, making it the most widely used clinical trial management system, the company said in a statement.

    Sep 3, 2013

  • Informed Consent Goes Digital

    Clinical Informatics News | Electronic solutions have become a mainstay in clinical trials, yet one critical aspect, the informed consent process, has stubbornly remained paper-based. And that’s about to change.

    Aug 29, 2013

  • Detroit Cancer Institute Launches Clinical Trial App for Doctors

    Crain's Detroit Business | The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit has released its own cancer-specific iPhone and iPad applications. The apps are designed for physicians who are searching for clinical trials for their own patients.

    Aug 28, 2013

  • PPD Acquires Acurian

    Triangle Business Journal | CRO PPD has acquired Acurian--the clinical trial patient-enrollment firm.

    Aug 28, 2013

  • Combination of Therapies Create Viable Treatment Strategy for Breast Cancer that has Spread to the Patient’s Brain

    Oncology Nurse Advisor | The blood brain barrier prevents many anticancer drugs from reaching areas of the brain to which cancer has spread, but cellular therapy in combination with genetic therapy show reduction of in metastatic brain tumor size. 

    Aug 26, 2013

  • The Open Source Future for Clinical Trials

    OpenSource.com | Clinovo, a Clinical Research Organization (CRO) that partners with life science companies to streamline their clinical trials, believes healthcare needs open source.

    Aug 26, 2013

  • How Hospitals Use Social Media

    Wall Street Journal | A hospital in Delaware is reaching out for patient feedback through social media. The children's hospital is surveying parents about their care preferences via a private social network.

    Aug 23, 2013

  • What Big Data Means for Pay-for-Performance

    InformationWeek | Some doctors are concerned about big data in their practices. The topic of a recent Wall Street Journal article, some clinicians fear that big data will mean metrics to meet.

    Aug 22, 2013

  • Chemoresponse Assays Help Clinicians Determine Treatment

    OncLive | Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of the ChemoFx assay by testing patients’ tumor samples for sensitivity and resistance to various chemotherapeutic agents.

    Aug 22, 2013

  • Greenphire Fuels Compliance With the Sunshine Act

    Clinical Informatics News | The life sciences sector has taken a giant step toward transparency with the August 1, 2013 launch of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. But now physicians and hospitals must learn to comply.

    Aug 20, 2013

  • Competing Drug Companies May Combine Late-Stage Trials of Drug Candidates

    Boston Business Journal | TranCelerate Biopharma reports that it has signed agreements facilitating head to head drug trials. The agreements allow drug makers to buy a competitor’s product for use in comparative clinical trials.

    Aug 20, 2013

  • Patient Recruitment Tool Targets Physicians

    PharmaTimes | MD On-Line (MDOL) has released a new patient recruitment tool. ID Recruit is designed to help doctors and the pharmaceutical industry identify the best candidates for clinical trials.

    Aug 20, 2013

  • Quintiles Acquires Novella

    News and Observer | Quintiles has acquired Novella Clinical of Morrisville, North Carolina. Novella is a CRO focusing on supporting companies developing cancer treatments.

    Aug 15, 2013

  • Clinical Trial App Partners with CenterWatch

    Clinical Informatics News | Study Scavenger and CenterWatch are partnering to provide sponsors, contract research organizations (CROs), research centers and patients a mobile solution to their clinical trial needs.

    Aug 14, 2013

  • 82% of Clinicians to be 'Digital Omnivores' Next Year

    MobiHealthNews | According to a survey conducted by athenahealth subsidiary Epocrates, almost 50% of all clinicians in the US are using smartphones, tablets, and desktops—all three of these devices—in professional capacities throughout their workday.

    Aug 12, 2013

  • Updates to FDAs Clinical Trial Imaging Standards

    Bioclinica Blog | In 2011, the FDA issued a guidance entitled 'Standards for Clinical Trial Imaging Endpoints,' designed to aid sponsors in the use of imaging endpoints in clinical trials.

    Aug 12, 2013

  • The Thirteen Year Trial Results Delay

    Forbes | A 13-year delay in trial results publication has garnered criticism. The PRAISE-2 trial was a cardiac trial following up on a surprising finding from the 1995 PRAISE trial, which had results published in 1996 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The follow-up trial was completed in 2000, but the results were neutral. They were just published in JACC: Heart Failure.

    Aug 6, 2013

  • JAMA Waives Academic Review of Industry-Sponsored Trials

    American Medical News | The Journal of the American Medical Association has ended its policy of requiring clinical trials sponsored by industry to be reviewed by outside experts.

    Aug 6, 2013