Standards in Biomedical Research

November 4, 2010 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Standards in Biomedical Research

November 4, 2010 – The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is working with the US National Cancer Institute’s Enterprise Vocabulary Services (NCI-EVS) on a new electronic library designed to help define and standardize data elements for use in biomedical research and healthcare.

This news was found on PharmaTimes in their article, “CDISC, NCI-EVS collaborate on clinical metadata standards.” As you can imagine, standards make us happy.

The goal of the collaboration with NCI-EVS is to develop multi-dimensional machine-readable clinical study metadata based on International Organization for Standardization (ISO) data standards and the Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group (BRIDG) Model.

The NCI-EVS has been working with CDISC since 2004 on developing and publishing CDISC-controlled terminology for the entire suite of the Consortium’s standards, such as the Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM) and the Clinical Data Acquisition Standards Harmonization (CDASH) standard.

It is nice to see a focus on standards in any industry, let alone one that affects our healthcare. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.