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Standards and the Patient - Dr Kush comments on the new stream at the North American Interchange

The second session on Thursday 4 November of the CDISC Interchange was comprised of four speakers who brought a true patient perspective and patient-oriented value to the picture of developing standards.  This session was chaired by David Handelsman of SAS, CDISC Advisory Board Representative to the Board Strategy Committee. 

Dr Rebecca Kush - Reflections on an excellent Interchange

Reflecting on the recent European CDISC Interchange, the phrase that reverberates in my mind is “Standards Everywhere”.  This is a credit to Dr. Paul Avillach, who asked to use my camera on Friday evening as half a dozen of us (who stayed through the bitter end to teach or participate in the CDISC Healthcare Link Course and the CDISC-HL7 Tutorial) ...

Landen Bain - Healthcare Link, More than Learning ...

Fifteen attendees and presenters spend Friday the 13th teaching, learning, and sharing concepts around CDISC’s healthcare link project.  This is the second time that CDISC has presented a training session on healthcare link, the first being at the Japan Interchange in July of this year ...

Landen Bain - Awards, Phenotypes and EHRs, all in a day's work.

The NIH sponsored symposium "Widening the use of EHR data for Clinical Research" took place on October 30, at the end of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) face-to-face meeting on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD.  NIH manages forty-six awards in this program, and the CTSA sites represent a cross-section of the high-end academic medical centers in the US. So a face-to-face meeting of CTSA sites brings together a broad spectrum of academic medical center informatics types ...

Landen Bain - Reports from Under the Deliverables Mountain!

Poor Landen is in over his head this month with three deliverables hitting at the same time: HITSP IS 158, CCHIT clinical research criteria, and IHE Redaction Services proposal all due the last week of October.  That’s this week!  So what do these deliverables mean for CDISC?  Here’s a sketch, with more to follow ...