EDC Connections

Hi Bloggers out there!

Dan and I wanted to write to let you know that the CDASH New User Guide (UG) Version 1.0 will be released for public consumption by May 2010. This is an exciting accomplishment for the entire team.

Some highlights of the document:

Dawn and Dan are here to blog again! We just finished a great Webinar series with SCDM that focused on trends for EDC today and into the future. One of the most interesting parts of the Webinar (to both speak and write about) was the use of reports to monitor clinical data.

Hello again to all of our faithful blog readers! Dan and I are sorry we have not been active bloggers for a while-we have been crazy busy with upgrades and enhancements to ViewPoint FUSE.

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season!

Well, here we are again, trying to get the last blog in before we go back to school!

Hope everyone had a wonderful summer….the Octagon team here has been hard at work trying to perfect our current ViewPoint FUSE system while planning for our next major release at the end of the 4th Quarter. With all the excitement surrounding this next release, it got us thinking of how exciting EDC really is! I mean, to be able to have data at your fingertips once entered and for it to be so clean because edit checks fire upon entry is amazing.

My name is Dan Crawford and I’m the Director of Clinical Data Strategies here at Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. Along with Dawn Kaminski (who you’ll be introduced to shortly), I will be blogging on the topic of EDC, Data Management and CDISC. Before we begin, we’d like to tell you a little bit about ourselves.

When I began my career in Data Management, gas cost $1.16/gallon, I was watching Goodfellas and listening to The Cure and Guns N’ Roses. The year was 1990.