Harlan Krumholz is not going gentle into the good night. Near the end of his tenure as the founding editor of Circulation:Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes Krumholz has delivered a fiery editorial [PDF] arguing that the current model of printed peer-reviewed journals may not, and probably should not, survive in “a new world that is flat, digital, and…
Buried Clinical Trial Data: The Dam Is About to Burst
January 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Two important new developments may mean that many more researchers will soon be able to access and analyze data from many more clinical trials. … a preliminary report from the prestigious Institute of Medicine lends strong support to the open data movement. The IOM report states that investigators should be required to establish a data-sharing plan at the…
Johnson & Johnson Will Share Clinical Trial Data
January 30, 2014 by 1 Comment
In a major victory for advocates of open access to data from clinical trials, Johnson & Johnson today announced that it will make all of its clinical trial data available to outside researchers. The company said that the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project will serve as an independent third party “to review requests from investigators and physicians seeking access to…
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