Velos, a leader in clinical trial management information systems for large investigator sites, recently announced the release of Velos eResearch Version 7, bringing a host of advanced features and functions to its customers. The company’s news release said: “With Version 7, some customers moved from test environment to production use in as little as one week. More than 60 functional and system enhancements were incorporated in the release.”

HealthInfoNet, Maine’s health information exchange (HIE), has selected 3M Health Information Systems Division to provide the interoperability solution needed to build one of the nation’s first statewide health information-sharing networks that will permit rapid access to patient-specific health care data at the point of care and across networks, hospital systems and state lines.

Nurses at the Dudley Hospitals in the West Midlands, U.K., are using Siemens’ embedded workflow engine, Soarian, to sort their nursing documentation and their work lists electronically.

etrials announced two independent agreements with Europe-based pharmaceutical companies to distribute its diary and electronic data capture (EDC) solutions.

The FDA is giving contract research organizations (CROs) an opportunity to take part in a pilot. It’s being run by the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) and aimed at testing a new way of entering patient data into electronic media, which allows real-time data validation checks instead of currently used paper-based CRFs.

For the first time, against conventional wisdom, a double-blind clinical trial has shown that the computer training in MindFit cognitive skill assessment and training software, created by CogniFit, improves short-term memory, spatial relations and attention focus—all skills used in driving and other daily activities that maintain our independence as we age.