Clinical Trials

PCORI Awards $123M to Support Clinical Effectiveness Research

March 31, 2023 - The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has announced funding awards totaling $123 million to support 15 clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies. Additionally, PCORI awarded $4 million for two implementation projects intended to accelerate uptake of strategies shown in PCORI-funded studies. One implementation project aims to...

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Health IT Vendor Veradigm Invests in Behavioral Health Data Analytics Company

by Hannah Nelson

Health IT vendor Veradigm Inc., formerly Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc., has announced an investment in Holmusk, a behavioral health data analytics company. Veradigm led Holmusk’s $45...

Electronic Informed Consenting Improves Data for Clinical Research

by Hannah Nelson

Electronic informed consenting (eIC) for clinical research via EHR patient portals could help improve the completeness of required fields compared to paper-based consenting surveys, according to a...

OSTP, ONC Seek Input on Optimizing Clinical Trial Electronic Data Capture

by Hannah Nelson

The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), in coordination with the National Security Council, issued a Request for Information (RFI) on October 26, seeking input on optimizing...

EHR Vendor Epic Releases Program for Clinical Trial Access, Matchmaking

by Hannah Nelson

EHR vendor Epic has announced the release of its Life Sciences program which aims to help providers, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device manufacturers recruit research participants and expand...

‘Point-of-Care’ Clinical Research Scalability Requires Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

Leveraging interoperability standards may provide a more flexible framework for the scalability of “point-of-care” clinical research, according to a Health Affairs article. A point-of-care...

Cerner Collaboration Targets Early Cancer Detection, Clinical Trials

by Sarai Rodriguez

EHR vendor Cerner, in a collaboration with Elligo Health Research and Freenome, will facilitate clinical trials through Cerner’s Learning Health Network (LHN) to further early...

USCF, FDA Deploy EHR Integration for Clinical Research Trials

by Hannah Nelson

UC San Francisco (UCSF), in collaboration with the Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative (QLHC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has deployed an EHR integration that aims to streamline...

RWE Alliance Commends FDA Draft Guidance for EHR Data Use

by Hannah Nelson

The RWE Alliance has submitted a comment letter in response to the FDA draft guidance on using medical claims and EHR data for real world evidence (RWE) to support regulatory decision making. The RWE...

How Regenstrief’s Privacy-Preserving EHR Linkage Fuels Clinical Research

by Hannah Nelson

Regenstrief Institute supports privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL), which protects patients’ identities while allowing researchers to access health data from EHRs and other sources for clinical research. “The...

How a Health Org Approaches EHR Data Governance, Clinical Research

by Hannah Nelson

Interdisciplinary data governance committees at UNC Health have helped steward the secure use of EHR data for clinical research, according to a study published in JAMIA. As researchers look to...

EHR Vendor Cerner Launches Clinical Research Operating Unit

by Hannah Nelson

EHR vendor Cerner has announced the launch of a new operating unit, Cerner EnvizaSM, that aims to offer data-driven solutions and research services to advance the clinical research process. Cerner...

Clinical Research Requires EHR Optimization, Data Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

EHR optimization to support data interoperability could improve the value of pragmatic clinical research, according to a study published in JAMIA. Pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs) leverage existing...

How Machine Learning Systems Help EHR Usabilty, Mitigate Burden

by Hannah Nelson

Machine learning systems can aid EHR usability and cut burden for disease phenotyping to support clinical research, according to a recent Mount Sinai study published in the journal Patterns. The...

Using Health IT Data Standards to Boost Interoperability for Clinical Research 

by Hannah Nelson

To leverage EHR data interoperability for clinical research purposes, health IT stakeholders should convert data between FHIR and CDISC data standards, according to an implementation guide from CDISC...

Health IT Vendors Partner on EHR-Based Clinical Research Network

by Hannah Nelson

Health IT vendors PRA Health Sciences, Inc. and Veradigm have partnered to create an EHR-based clinical research network that extends the clinical trial process into EHR workflows.  The network...

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