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DrugDev, a leading provider of technology driven solutions that help investigators, sponsors and CROs do more trials together, announced today the establishment of the DrugDev Innovation Lab, a technology incubator designed to accelerate emerging solutions in clinical trial automation. Led by DrugDev Executive Chairman Hugo Stephenson, MD, the DrugDev Innovation Lab will provide the expert guidance, capital resources and ecosystem necessary for smaller companies to scale their novel products into industry gold standard solutions.

Applied Informatics OneLogin submission enables users to login to different open source systems like Drupal, Virtuoso, Onto-wiki using the Web ID protocol.

Clinical trials are a clear area where mobile engagement and big data have serious potential, but it’s still a largely untapped use case. There have been a lot of stories recently about the opportunities in that space, but also on the challenges companies have encountered in implementing them. At least one abandoned study and one failed company can attest to those.

Services such as TrialX use Twitter to help patients connect with clinical trials

In a release, Wil Yu, Special Assistant for Innovations at ONC, said, “We are very excited about the winning applications. The popHealth tool is a cutting-edge technology that was able to support a highly technical competition. The winning teams displayed impressive levels of understanding in the areas of meaningful use and provider-patient interaction, which resulted in unique and useful solutions. We look forward to seeing advancements to the teams’ solutions in the future.”

The Ask Dory! application helps patients locate nearby clinical trials, integrate data from www.ClinicalTrials.gov and uses an entropy-based decision tree algorithm.

Congratulations to these innovators who are working to use the latest technology to make cancer more understandable and personalized!