Clinical Trials
Stevenson D. electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 6(2)
When developing a “smart healthcare” application that takes the participants beyond their experience of the conventional analogue of that application, a challenge is to gather the requirements for the application and to map those requirements onto a successful design. Some requirements will come from the conventional way of delivering the healthcare service. Some will come from the domains of the technologies that have been used to create the smart healthcare application. Some requirements, however, particularly for point-of-care applications, will emerge from the interplay of the actual clinical situation and the novelty of the smart healthcare application.
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5 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Australia | Tag(s): Applications, Clinical Trials, Design, Evaluation, Telehealth, Telemedicine
Guy Boulton, Journal Sentinel
“What is the maximum dose of a drug that will limit side effects to an acceptable level? How many patients would benefit from a treatment and how many would be harmed? Would the potential benefit of screening everyone for a disease outweigh the potential harm to people who receive unneeded care because of inaccurate results?
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4 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Effectiveness, Research
Healthcare IT News
“Social media can be used to increase enrollment and reduce clinical trial delays, according to a new survey.
Blue Chip Patient Recruitment, a division of global, full-service marketing agency Blue Chip Marketing Worldwide, has authored a white paper advising patient recruitment specialists on how to effectively implement social media into their recruitment strategies. The white paper, titled, “Patient Recruitment and the E-patient: A Survey Analysis,” is available at here.
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28 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Social Media
Gene Ostrovsky, MedGadget
“PatientsLikeMe, the social network for people with medical conditions, has unveiled a new online tool for discovering clinical trials that may be relevant to an individual’s unique situation.
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10 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Online Communities
Jennifer Corbett Dooren, Wall Street Journal
“Pfizer Inc. is conducting a drug trial in which patients participate from their homes using computers and smartphones rather than visiting a clinic.
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7 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical, Research, Website
Schmickl CN et al, Respiratory Medicine, 2011
Participant recruitment is an important process in successful conduct of randomized controlled trials. To facilitate enrollment into a National Institutes of Health–sponsored clinical trial involving patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), we developed and prospectively validated an automated electronic screening tool based on boolean free-text search of admission notes in electronic medical records. During a 2-week validation period, all patients admitted to prespecified general medical services were screened for eligibility by both the electronic screening tool and a COPD nurse. Group discussion was the gold standard for confirmation of true-positive results.
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15 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Accuracy, Clinical Trials, COPD, Efficiency, emr, Free text, Screening, Search
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“A new whitepaper has demonstrated that the use of interoperable digital identities, digital signatures and cloud computing helps accelerate the initiation of a clinical trial while lowering costs.
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16 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Cloud, Digital signature
William Tobia, iMedicalApps
“Clinical trials are an integral part of the drug development pipeline, with profound effects for our sickest patients. Anyone who has been involved in clinical trials and had to attract potential subjects for participation knows how difficult this process can be. And patients, particularly those with major illnesses, often struggle to find the trials that could offer lifesaving treatment.
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2 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Applications, Clinical Trials, mHealth
Jennifer Corbett Dooren, WSJ Health Blog
“For developers of new drugs and treatments, one of the toughest hurdles has nothing to do with medicine. It’s recruiting patients for clinical trials. And when it comes to recruiting minority patients, the challenge is even greater.
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28 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Drugs
Dissent, PHIprivacy.net
“Patients who participate in clinical trials expect that their personal information will remain confidential, but a recent study led by Dr. Khaled El-Emam, Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the CHEO Research Institute, found that the security practices used to transfer and share sensitive files were inadequate.
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17 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Data Protection, Personal Health Information
Miller DM et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 17(1)
Objective:
No studies have addressed the use of electronic personal health records (e-PHRs) for self-management in complex neurological disorders. We assessed and tested an Internet-based self-management system that utilized the e-PHR and determined its impact on self-assessed well-being, clinician-assessed well-being, and healthcare utilization in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).
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7 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, phr, Self Management
Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“Saturday’s New York Times portends more trouble for big Pharma. The headline is wrapped up in an examination of foreign corrupt practices, but the bigger issue is that clinical trials have hidden serious adverse events.
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16 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Health 2.0, Pharmaceutical
Shawn Rhea, ModernHealthcare
“Before electronic health-record systems can realize their potential to transform clinical-trial recruitment, important patient privacy concerns need to be addressed, industry analysts say.
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23 June 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Privacy
Dorsey ER et al, Movement Disorders, 2010
We conducted a randomized, controlled pilot trial to evaluate the feasibility of providing subspecialty care via telemedicine for patients with Parkinson’s disease residing in a remote community located approximately 130 miles from an academic movement disorders clinic. Study participants were randomized to receive telemedicine care with a movement disorder specialist at the University of Rochester or to receive their usual care. Participants in the telemedicine group received three telemedicine visits over six months. Feasibility, as measured by the completion of telemedicine visits, was the primary outcome measure.
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13 June 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, parkinson, Telemedicine
Chris Thorman, Physicians News
“As we wait for the federal government to finalize important sections of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), there is a lot of talk about the financial incentives for implementing electronic health records (EHR). Practices that implement an EHR under the federal government’s guidelines stand to gain over $60,000 in incentives over the next five years.
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15 May 2010 | 1 Comment »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Implementation, Incentives
Aniko Lecoultre, Insightful clinical trials search
“Someone who wants to search for clinical trials will frequently discover the clinicaltrials.gov website, the registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the US and around the world. Should he then use it? It is not sure.
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10 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Search, Website
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“I read a pretty convincing blog on how clinical trial participation could be the tipping point for physicians to implement EHRs. It’s not apparent how many physician offices will deploy EHRs as a result of the federal incentives. It’s probably safe to say that the numbers could be higher, given the concerns that have been voiced about existing barriers to EHR adoption.
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22 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Implementation
Chris Thorman, Software Advice
“A topic that hasn’t been as hotly discussed is using information gleaned from EHR software to participate in clinical trials. We think this should play a larger role in deciding whether or not a practice should purchase EHR software. Why? Participation in clinical trials has the potential to net a profit of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Now that’s an incentive to purchase an EHR.
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20 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Clinical Trials
Hope Leman, Significant Science
“Before we begin, Dr. Sands, I’d like to give readers a bit of background. You are already well known to those of us who follow the movements Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, the e-Patient movement, Participatory Medicine, Connected Health and to those who work in the fields of health information management, medical informatics and health IT via your incredible range of activities as a physician (notably to the well-known e-Patient Dave), as a technologist and for your contributions to the fields of academic medicine via your position on the staff at Harvard Medical School.
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3 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, e-patient, participatory, Patient
UPI
“Canadian health officials found 41 percent of clinical trials have moved away from managing trial data using only paper records.
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24 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Electronic Data Capture
