OpenClinica Integration with caAERS, a caBIG Application for Adverse Event Reporting

First, here’s a quick summary of caBIG. caBIG is an NCI sponsored initiative which makes essential tools and data accessible to the cancer research community worldwide. The infrastructure developed by caBIG primarily enables the collecting, analyzing, integrating, and disseminating information associated with cancer research and care. This cutting-edge technology will help scientists and practitioners develop find better [...]

CDASH: A new way to standardize data elements

Many people who work with EDC systems have heard of or been impacted by CDISC, Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium.  CDISC’s mission is to develop and support global, platform-independent data standards that enable information system interoperability to improve medical research and related areas of healthcare.  They have many different initiatives, but one of their newest [...]

Portability: the next frontier in electronic data capture?

Recently, the company Clinical Ink announced their upcoming software release.  Using tablet PCs with proprietary software, they will allow EDC to take place on digital tablets “that retain the look and feel of traditional paper data collection forms.”  This sounds familiar, as we’ve been working on the same thing with our CRF templates to load [...]