• Pipeline Progress: Predicting Drug Approvals at Every Phase

    Clinical Informatics News | Infinata’s BioPharm Insight discovered a “revolutionary” new use for its massive drugs and clinical trials database after its consultants last summer probed the data for a contract research organization (CRO) wanting to better gauge resource needs around the future portfolio makeup of a key account, says Infinata Marketing Director Kris Sarajian.

    Jun 21, 2013

  • May-June 2013 News Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | News and products from around the clinical and health-IT industry including an EHR for psychiatrists, the results of an 8-country health-IT survey, an analytics platform for health care, and more.

    Jun 21, 2013

  • Five Keys to Drug Reimbursement

    Clinical Informatics News | Getting an FDA stamp of approval is not sufficient to ensure a drug will do well on the market. The onus is on drug makers to ensure their drug is priced well and paid for, even while it’s still in the development stage. I’ve identified five steps used by drug manufacturers to ensure reimbursement:

    Jun 20, 2013

  • PatientsLikeMe, inVentiv Health Enter Patient Recruitment Partnership

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | PatientsLikeMe and inVentiv Health are partnering to more quickly connect patients to clinical trials. PatientsLikeMe has 200,000 members who share information and experiences on more than 1,500 different diseases and conditions. These members—already interested in the development of new treatments—will be able to access information on clinical trials conducted by inVentiv’s pharmaceutical customers.

    Jun 17, 2013

  • Supreme Court on Pay-to-Delay

    Forbes | The Supreme Court has ruled against pay-to-delay deals, but wasn't fully clear on which kinds of deals are off the table.

    Jun 17, 2013

  • Surgeon General to Step Down

    Healthcare IT News | The Surgeon General of the United States, Regina Benjamin, has announced her plans to step down in July.

    Jun 14, 2013

  • Insightful Site Selection: Tools of the Trade

    Clinical Informatics News | As clinical trial site feasibility assessments proved less fruitful than futile, software solutions emerged to add efficiency and visibility to the matchup process between trial and site. The tools are making feasibility surveys more targeted sends and, in some cases, eliminating the questionnaires entirely. Effortlessly identifying the best sites and investigators and more reliably predicting trial enrollment success is the common end game.

    Jun 12, 2013

  • Randy Scott on Building a Clinical Genomics A-Team

    Clinical Informatics News | Randy Scott, Chairman and CEO of InVitae will be giving the plenary keynote at for TCGC: The Clinical Genome Conference on June 25, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif. In advance of his keynote, Bio-IT World’s former editor, Kevin Davies, chatted with Scott about building a clinical genomics A-team, the advantages of large gene panels, the rationale behind a targeted sequencing strategy, its relevance to routine medical practice today and more.

    Jun 11, 2013

  • Dana-Farber, LLS Establish Network of Clinical Trial Testing Sites

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have joined forces to create a network of sites in community oncology settings across the country for clinical trial testing specifically focused in blood cancer therapies.

    Jun 7, 2013

  • Adaptive Trials Growing Among CROs, Pharma

    Outsourcing Pharma | Adaptive trials continue to gain ground, says Ken Getz, Director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. He says the industry as a whole is seeing an adoption rate of about 20%, with regulators receptive to even broader implementation.

    Jun 5, 2013

  • Continuous, Remote Patient Monitoring Poised to Advance as M2M Technologies Emerge

    Clinical Inforamtics News | Guest Commentary | The life sciences industry has been focused on improving clinical trial productivity in recent years, realizing significant data management efficiency gains over the last decade largely due to the widespread adoption of remote data capture technologies. However, we still have substantial opportunities to further reduce the cost and improve the speed and quality of data collected during clinical trials. The rapid emergence of machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies can transform how we collect clinical trial data and dramatically improve its accuracy and immediacy.

    Jun 5, 2013

  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Launches Data App Competition

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has launched an app competition aimed at improving consumer understanding and use of data that compare hospital prices.

    Jun 4, 2013

  • European Parliament Releases Clinical Trial Rules

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | The European Parliament's public health committee released new rules for clinical trials yesterday. The rules are meant to make trials quicker and more transparent and help to provide better treatment.

    May 31, 2013

  • Predicting Readmits: Big Data for Health Care

    Computerworld | Predictive analytics is on the rise, and though it's still challenging to actually make future predictions. Medalogix examines patient records and makes predictions about hospital readmits.

    May 30, 2013

  • Improved and Refined Voluntary Harmonization Procedure Benefits European Clinical Trials

    Labmate | Improving Voluntary Harmonization Procedures (VHPs) for multinational clinical trials applications expedites the creation and distribution of patient therapies.

    May 29, 2013

  • New Report Suggests Adaptive Designs of Clinical Trials are Likely to Increase Over Next Few Years

    PharmaTimes | According to a study done by Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD), roughly 20% of ongoing clinical trials are currently using adaptive designs, and usage of these methods are expected to increase in the exploratory phase of drug development.

    May 29, 2013

  • From DNA to PDF: Harnessing the Genome and Phenome to Make Better Diagnoses

    Clinical Informatics News | When doctors like Marc Williams need to analyze thousands of variants in a patient’s genome to make a diagnosis, a little help can go a long way. Williams, the director of the Genomic Medicine Institute, won a Bio-IT World Best Practices award in Informatics at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo this past month for his project testing the effectiveness of SimulConsult’s “Genome-Phenome Analyzer,” a tool to help clinicians analyze a patient’s genome. 

    May 27, 2013

  • ClinTec Expands to Middle East, North Africa

    Business Insider | CRO firm ClinTec International has opened an office in Istanbul. Now operating in 40 countries, ClinTec's Turkey office will further consolidate its presence in the Middle East and North Africa.

    May 21, 2013

  • Singapore Launches New Flu Vaccine Trial

    MedicalXpress | Singapore's A*STAR and Swiss group Cytos Biotechnology have launched a Phase 1 clinical trial for an H1N1 flu vaccine, making use of Cytos’ virus-like particle (VLP) technology.

    May 20, 2013

  • Building Enthusiasm for Clinical Trials

    PhysBizTech | Using a trial search engine and educational web videos, researchers at the Seidman Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have been looking into ways to help build enthusiasm for clinical trials from both patients and practitioners.

    May 20, 2013