Gerhard B. Holt, our senior fellow with a special interest in health policy and Joseph Bernstein, our co-founder published a recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the need for transparency in medical […]

Google co-founder Larry Page made a rare appearance at the TED conference and expounded on a few ideas he thinks will change the world. “Wouldn’t it be amazing to have anonymous medical records available to all […]

The Annals of Internal Medicine heralds a historic moment in the emerging era of open science as it features 2 systematic reviews on rhBMP-2 that are based on patient-level data from all clinical trials conducted […]

A NY Times article discusses the issues with opening up clinical trials data. More researchers are insisting on seeing all the data behind all clinical trials for drugs, not just the rosy reports that companies […]

There’s no shortage of great minds using big data techniques to improve the quality of our medical treatments, but sometimes they can’t get access to the data they need most. Improving access to genetic data, for […]

Shannon Bohle provides an excellent overview of the value of open data and evaluates new and suggested open data tools when it comes to making the most of the open access and open data.

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Each day, patients and their physicians make treatment decisions with access to only a fraction of the relevant clinical research data. Many clinical studies, including randomized clinical trials, are never […]