Medical research

Sharing Clinical Data

Aggregating and sharing data needs to be at the very heart of clinical research but a major barrier is the protection rightly afforded patients privacy. The question of who owns data is obvious at source, but as its aggregated that ownership becomes a lot less clear. In Preparing Raw Clinical Data for Publication Trials Journal [...]

Is Patient Consent Blocking Clinical Research

Maybe a new contract is needed between medicine and society that assumes a default position that says that everyone attending hospital should be involved in medical research, unless they specifically opt out of the process at the time of consent? This approach has already been used in some European countries for organ donation and has [...]

Scrutinizing Industry-Funded Science: The Crusade Against Conflicts of Interest – Policy and Medicine

A report was released from the American Council on Science and Health titled: Scrutinizing Industry-Funded Science: The Crusade Against Conflicts of Interest.  The seventy page report outlines the history of the conflicts of interest industry and the potential for harm that the COI crusade causes.  Below is a synopsis of the report from their website: [...]

Biomedical Informatics Research

We’re organising a consortium to conduct a new research project targeting biomedical informatics. The work will build on the success we’ve achieved with Avert-IT, extending the reach of the technology to remote monitoring and large scale computing. At the centre of the research will be our Clinical Research Hub (coming soon). We’re happy to consider [...]

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