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CDISC and HL7: aBRIDGed
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Applied Clinical Trials
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May 1, 2008
- Author:
- Nelen, Kerri
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Copyright informationCopyright Advanstar Communications, Inc. May 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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In October 2003, former FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan told an audience in Bethesda, Maryland: "The kinds of information bottlenecks created by poorly accessible paper records is dangerous, inefficient, and expensive, whether it's our own evaluation of a new drug application or a doctor's evaluation of her patient."
McClellan's criticism came during the keynote presentation he gave at Interchange 2003, the inaugural industry-wide meeting of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), which develops and supports global, platform-independent data standards that enable information system interoperability in research and related areas of health care. Since that keynote address, ...