ADVISORY/ Phase Forward's Paul Bleicher to Moderate Discussion At Data Standards for Clinical Development Conference.Business/Technology Editors and Healthcare/Pharmaceutical Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday Tuesday: see week. (May 22) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
Who: Phase Forward Incorporated, the Pioneer in Proven E-Process
Solutions for Accelerating Global Pharmaceutical Development
What: Dr. Paul Bleicher, founder, chairman and chief scientific
officer of Phase Forward, to Participate in Program
Committee and Present as Part of a Seminar on, "Vocabularies
and Content Standards."
Where: Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, D.C.
When: Conference: Tuesday, May 22 through Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Presentation: Wednesday, May 23 at 1:15 p.m. EDT
Hosted by the Drug Information Organization, the Data Standards for Clinical Development Conference will educate attendees on advancements toward achieving industry standards for data interchange An interchange is a location where two things meet, usually perform some kind of exchange, and possibly go on their ways again. It is most commonly used in four contexts:
Independent government commission charged by the legislature with setting and enforcing standards for specific industries in the private sector. The concept was invented by the U.S. . With the convergence of the biopharmaceutical drug and device industries, common standards for clinical data are needed to improve the clinical development process. Dr. Bleicher will participate as a member of the program committee and moderate a panel designed to introduce standard dictionaries and vocabularies for clinical research. Attendees will gain single points of reference when addressing clinical, technical and regulatory terminology as it relates to clinical research. Dr. Bleicher brings to Phase Forward more than 11 years of experience in the design, implementation and analysis of clinical trials from both the sponsor and clinical investigator A clinical investigator involved in a clinical trial is responsible for ensuring that an investigation is conducted according to the signed investigator statement, the investigational plan, and applicable regulations; for protecting the rights, safety, and welfare of subjects under perspective. Before founding Phase Forward, Dr. Bleicher was vice president, Clinical Affairs at Alpha-Beta
About Phase Forward Phase Forward Incorporated is the pioneer in proven e-process solutions for accelerating global pharmaceutical development. Phase Forward's InForm(TM) software product uses Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the technologies to conduct and manage clinical trials efficiently and effectively. The InForm software product has been used in over 133 clinical trials worldwide. Its software and service solutions allow sponsors of clinical trials to eliminate the need to transcribe To copy data from one medium to another; for example, from one source document to another, or from a source document to the computer. It often implies a change of format or codes. and process traditional paper data forms, to access global clinical trial data in real time, and to begin data analysis almost immediately after the last patient has visited the clinic. Phase Forward believes that use of its InForm software product by clinical trial sponsors has the potential to cut one to two years off the current seven to nine years it takes to bring new drugs to market, enabling them to increase their revenue potential. Phase Forward Incorporated, a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , is headquartered in Waltham Waltham (wôl`thăm, –thəm), city (1990 pop. 57,878), Middlesex co., E Mass., a suburb of Boston, on the Charles River; settled c.1634, set off from Watertown 1738, inc. as a city 1884. , Mass. Additional information about Phase Forward is available at http://www.phaseforward.com. Phase Forward, InForm and InForm Unplugged are trademarks or registered trademarks of Phase Forward Incorporated. All other trademarks may be the property of their respective owners. |
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