• Sandy Aronson on GeneInsight

    eCliniqua Video | Sandy Aronson, Executive Director of IT of the Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine (PCPGM), speaks with Bio-IT World Editor Kevin Davies about GeneInsight IT platform.

    Apr 26, 2013

  • BioPharm Clinical Adds Study Forecasting Feature

    eCliniqua | BioPharm Clinical has added Study Advisor forecast solution and a new user interface to its clinical trial feasibility tool. 

    Apr 25, 2013

  • Smart Patients Launches Social Trials for Cancer Patients

    Forbes | What does the architect behind Google Health do when the application is closed? Roni Zeiger started Smart Patients—a clinical trials search engine and social community that focuses on empowering cancer patients.

    Apr 25, 2013

  • EHR Challenges for Doctors and Patients

    Computerworld | Dr. Robert Walker, director of health innovation for the U.S. Army Surgeon General, is frustrated with the electronic health record (EHR) system. "It [takes] the focus away from the patient and put it all on the computer,” he says.

    Apr 25, 2013

  • John Halamka on the Future State of Care

    eCliniqua | Major changes loom on the horizon for health care. John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center shares his outlook on the future state of care with Bio-IT World Editor-in-Chief, Kevin Davies.

    Apr 24, 2013

  • Clinical Web Portal Survey Shows Need for Integration

    eCliniqua | In a survey conducted by CenterWatch, clinical trial investigator sites and study sponsors reported that most accessed many clinical portals, and an integrated solution would be welcome.

    Apr 23, 2013

  • Oracle Integrates InForm and Argus Safety

    eCliniqua News Brief | Oracle has integrated Oracle Health Sciences InForm and Oracle Argus Safety in an effort to help clinical trial sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) more cost-effectively and efficiently capture and manage information on adverse events.

    Apr 19, 2013

  • Encouraging Patient Drivers and Removing Regulatory Barriers to Personalized Medicine

    eCliniqua | Contributed Commentary | As the health care industry increasingly functions as a marketplace, now more than ever patients are playing a more active role in their care—from demanding visibility into costs of medical services to interacting with physicians in new ways to participating in preventive care measures.

    Apr 17, 2013

  • Toward Disruption: Transparency in Clinical Trials

    Xconomy | Transparency Life Sciences (TLS) is calling for transparency in clinical trials to improve study design, quality and outcomes while drastically reducing costs.

    Apr 16, 2013

  • Regulations, Genetic Workflow, and Privacy: Coming Challenges for Health-IT

    eCliniqua | The keynote session at the inaugural Medical Informatics World Conference in Boston yesterday kicked off conversations on a broad range of health-IT challenges: everything from Meaningful Use Stage 2 to the coming surge of clinical genomics.

    Apr 9, 2013

  • HP Signs Contract to Build IT System for UK Hospitals

    eWeek | HP Enterprise Services UK signed a 10-year, $210 million contract with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Bracknell, United Kingdom.

    Apr 8, 2013

  • Insight Genetics to Participate in the Clinical Assay Development Program

    eCliniqua News Brief | Insight Genetics has been selected by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to participate in the Clinical Assay Development Program (CADP), an initiative of NCI’s Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis that aims to move promising assays from the research lab into clinical trials.

    Apr 3, 2013

  • Mobile Clinical Trial Locator Launched for Global Trials

    eCliniqua News Brief | Last week, MyClinicalTrialLocator.com, a global clinical trials aggregator site launched that gives patients access to trials around the world from their mobile device. The site uses publicly available information from clinicaltrials.gov, as well as information from academic medical centers to create an easier and more accessible website for patients, parents and caregivers.

    Apr 2, 2013

  • EHR Data Not Complete Enough to Recruit Patients for Trials

    eCliniqua Brief | A study found that using EHR data to recruit for clinical trials did not work as well as hoped. A group in Germany assessed EHR data from five German university hospitals for data completeness. The group looked to see whether EHR data was complete enough to use for clinical trial recruitment.

    Mar 29, 2013

  • Site Service: New Trial Portal Puts Sites’ Needs First

    eCliniqua | When clinical trial sponsors reach out to sites, they may use a newsletter or rely on word-of-mouth messages passed from the project team to regional managers to sites. The result is like the children’s game, Telephone. Everyone gets a slightly different version of old news. PHT Corporation aims to fix that with MyStudyHome, an online social community to connect clinical trial sponsors with sites.

    Mar 26, 2013

  • ePharmaSolutions, CenterWatch Launch Referral Plus Initiative

    eCliniqua News Brief | ePharmaSolutions, CenterWatch, and a consortium of pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations have launched the 'Referral Plus' Initiative to increase opportunities for patients to find trials for which they may qualify.

    Mar 22, 2013

  • After the Trial

    In the Pipeline | Why post-trial data analysis is so important: Derek Lowe looks at the case study of one company that rushed their positive Phase III trial results.

    Mar 21, 2013

  • Role of the Caregiver in Clinical Trials

    Huffington Post | The clinical trial experience affects a wide range of stakeholders, including patients' caregivers.

    Mar 15, 2013

  • ArisGlobal Launches Clinical Trial Supply Management System

    eCliniqua Product Brief | ArisGlobal has launched agSupply, an integrated IWRS (Interactive Web Response System) and logistics management system that automates the tracking of clinical trial supplies throughout the supply chain.

    Mar 14, 2013

  • Site Accreditation Standards Initiative Names Co-Chairs

    eCliniqua | Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES) has named co-chairs for its Site Accreditation Standards Initiative (SASI). Inaugurated in December of 2012, SASI brings together prominent representatives from the multi-sector biomedical research community to promote formal standards for accreditation of clinical research sites worldwide. Linda Meyerson and Tracy Blumenfeld who will serve as Co-Chairs of the SASI Steering Committee.

    Mar 13, 2013