Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Awards Finalists Announced

NEEDHAM, MA--(Marketwired - February 04, 2016) - Clinical Informatics News today announced ten finalists in its 2016 Best Practices Awards. Three of the finalists will be named winners at SCOPE, the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives in Miami, Florida, on February 24.

The Clinical Informatics News Best Practices awards recognizes outstanding examples of applied strategic innovation -- partnerships, deployments, and collaborations that manifestly improve the clinical trial process. An expert panel of judges assesses entries looking for solutions that are innovative, and needed in the industry.

2016 Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Finalists:

• Clincierge -- Patient Recruitment, Support and Retention for Rare Disease Trial
• Covance-Xcellerate Monitoring -- Covance's Risk-Based Monitoring Platform
• DaVita Clinical Research -- Expediting Clinical Trial Enrollment: Use of electronic health record to data to inform feasibility, site selection and enrollment, resulting in significant time reduction and cost savings in a late phase clinical trial of a rare condition
• ICON Firecrest -- Financial Disclosure Form Process
• MANA Consulting with PaxVax -- Implementing Risk-Based Monitoring and Remote Trial Management Technologies and Processes to enable a Small Biotech to run a 1000 subject Phase IV study with a Clinical/DM staff of Four
• Neurological Clinical Research Institute @ Massachusetts General Hospital and Prize4Life -- The Pooled Resource Open-access ALS Clinical Trials (PRO-ACT) platform -- Using Big Data to drive innovation in ALS Research
• PPD -- Visualization Tools for Safety Observations in a Clinical Trial
• PRA Health Sciences -- PRA Collaborates with a Top 10 Biotech Company on Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Patient Trend Monitoring
• Science 37 with LA BioMed-PEMPHIX Trial -- Science 37 technology powering the LA Biomed telemedicine substudy site
• Synchrogenix, a Certara company -- Artificial Intelligence Technology: The Most Effective and Efficient Approach to Mitigate Risk For Meeting Data Transparency Requirements

The Summit for Clinical Ops Executives is produced by Cambridge Healthtech Institute and is taking place February 23-25 in Miami, FL. Additional information on this event, can be found at www.ScopeSummit.com

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Part of the Cambridge Healthtech Publishing (www.HealthtechPublishing.com), Clinical Informatics News reports on innovative technologies from clinical trials to medical informatics. Technology continues to permeate all aspects of clinical trials and the patient experience, and the tools to support these efforts are maturing rapidly. ClinicalInformaticsNews.com, the Clinical Informatics News Newsletter and News Bulletins provide authoritative news, views and insights on the vast landscape of innovation between clinical trial management and delivery of care.

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