Clinovo Hosts Official CDISC Workshop on June 11th, 2012 in Palo Alto

Press Release | CDISC, Clinovo | June 5, 2012

The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Education Team announces that Clinovo is offering a Free CDISC workshop around legacy data conversion to SDTM. The training will take place on June 11th, 2012, in Palo Alto.

"We are delighted that the CDISC organization contacted us to lead this training", says Ale Gicqueau, President and CEO at Clinovo. "Clinovo has been actively promoting the benefits of CDISC standards at our free events, webinars, and through the free distribution of our open-source CDISC mapping tool. Being asked to host this workshop by the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Education Team is a great honor for us".

Clinovo will be hosting a vendor-neutral presentation to discuss common issues encountered during legacy clinical data conversion to CDISC SDTM standard, and methods for addressing these issues. The CDISC training will include demonstrations using commonly available tools.

CDISC Workshop Details:
Date: Monday, June 11, 2012
Time: 5:00-7:00 PM Pacific Time
Location: SNR Denton, 1530 Page Mill Road, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1125
Registration by e-mail to training(at)cdisc(dot)org.

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Clinovo has been active in the implementation of CDISC standards since 2007. As a CDISC Gold Member, Clinovo has continuously worked on raising awareness, education and expertise on CDISC standards throughout the industry.

Clinovo was recognized in April 2012 with the official status of CDISC Registered Solutions Provider for its valuable CDISC service offer to pharmaceutical companies. Clinovo is a registered official subject matter expert in the following CDISC standards: Clinical Data Acquisition Standards Harmonization (CDASH), Laboratory Data Model (LAB), Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM), Analysis Data Model (ADaM), Define.xml, and Terminology.

Since April 2011, Clinovo has freely distributed CDISC Express, the only open source SAS®-based system that automatically converts clinical data into CDISC SDTM, which has been downloaded by almost 600 unique users.

About cdisc.org
CDISC is a global, open, multidisciplinary, non-profit organization that has established standards to support the acquisition, exchange, submission and archive of clinical research data and metadata. The CDISC 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. CDISC standards are vendor-neutral, platform-independent and freely available via the CDISC website.

About Clinovo
Clinovo partners with life science companies to streamline their clinical trials, leveraging years of expertise in systems integration, open source technology and industry standards. Clinovo provides Staffing Solutions, eClinical Systems and Biometrics Services including Clinical Data Management, Electronic Data Capture, CDISC Mapping and SAS Programming.