NIH is launching a series of initiatives that are rolling out in 2017-2018 to enhance the accountability and transparency of clinical research. These initiatives target key points along the whole clinical trial lifecycle from concept to results reporting. Among these changes is the NIH Definition of a Clinical Trial: A research study in which one or more human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions (which may include placebo or other control) to evaluate the effects of those interventions on health-related biomedical or behavioral outcomes. For application due dates on/after January 25, 2018, identifying whether your study is a clinical trial will be important for:

 

To learn more, click here: https://grants.nih.gov/policy/clinical-trials.htm

On July 11th, Intel hosted its global launch of its new processor architecture at New Lab (a tech incubator in Brooklyn with nearly 100 startups). Dr. Andrew Racine gave the keynote address which featured Montefiore as a leading healthcare institution that is at the forefront of big data innovations and technologies that are transforming medicine. Dr. Racine’s talk featured the NIH funded clinical trial, PROOFcheck ( Dr. Michelle Gong and Dr. Parsa Mirhaji) and focused on how the team is using innovative EHR-based early prediction models to prevent prolonged ventilation and identify patients in the hospital who are at high risk for developing acute respiratory failure, requiring mechanical ventilation. To learn more about how the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Health Data Innovations (CHDI) is working with Intel and using the data analytics platform, Semantic Data Lake, to advance patient care, click here. 

The NYC RING (New York City Research and Improvement Networking Group) will be holding its annual Convocation of Practices on Thursday, October 26th from 5-8pm in Grand Hall, Tishman Learning Center. Clinicians, researchers, and residents who are part of the NYC RING Community are welcome to attend. Speakers Drs. Christine and Thomas Sinsky will be the Keynote Speakers. For more information click here.

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) will introduce its new, centralized online resource portal to help patient support organizations along the translational spectrum. This Toolkit for Patient-Focused Therapy Development: Demonstration and Dissemination will have a meeting on September 8th in Bethesda to promote this toolkit and how it can help streamline the search therapeutic development resources from working with the NIH and FDA, establish a patient registry, and more. To learn more about the launch of this new toolkit, click here.