CDISC Announces Call for New Members; Leading Companies in Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Device Industries and Regulatory Work Together to Establish Global Data Standards.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers/High-Tech Writers BIOWIRE2K AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2003 The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is a non-profit organization, whose mission is "to develop and support global, platform-independent data standards that enable information system interoperability to improve medical research and related areas of (CDISC CDISC Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium ) recently announced a call for new members, as well as an opportunity for current members to upgrade their membership category. CDISC currently has more than 90 members, including the majority of the major global pharmaceutical companies. Companies that join or upgrade by April 18, 2003, will get back 10 percent of their first year dues in education credits for their organization. These credits can be used to attend any CDISC-sponsored public or in-house In-house In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. courses during the next 12 months. There are four levels of membership available: Corporate Benefactor ben·e·fac·tor n. One that gives aid, especially financial aid. [Middle English, from Late Latin, from Latin benefacere, to do a service; see benefaction. , Corporate Sponsor, Corporate Member and Associate Member. Dues vary based on the size of the company. Among other benefits are reduced cost for education and CDISC-sponsored meetings. In addition, Benefactors and Sponsors are voting members with representation on the CDISC Industry Advisory Board, which advises CDISC on strategy. Interested parties should contact Shirley Williams, CDISC director of operations, via e-mail at swilliams@cdisc.org or by phone at 512/341-9885 to join. Details on membership levels and benefits are available on the CDISC Web site at http://www.cdisc.org/membership/index.html. CDISC members work together to establish universally accepted data standards in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and device industries, as well as in regulatory agencies regulatory agency 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. worldwide. "CDISC continues to gain momentum toward achieving industry standards," said Steve Ruberg, CDISC board chairman and director, Clinical Data Technology and Services, Eli Lilly Eli Lilly can refer to:
"On behalf of CDISC, I'd like to sincerely thank all of our current members and volunteers. They're the ones who have made CDISC such a success," said Frank Newby, vice president, Education and Member Relations for CDISC. "This is an ideal time for those considering joining CDISC to do so. By joining on or before April 18, they can take advantage of the `education credit' offer." CDISC is an open, multidisciplinary mul·ti·dis·ci·pli·nar·y adj. Of, relating to, or making use of several disciplines at once: a multidisciplinary approach to teaching. , non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. committed to the development of worldwide standards to support the electronic acquisition, exchange, submission and archiving of clinical trials data and metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. for medical and biopharmaceutical product development. The CDISC mission is to lead the development of global, vendor-neutral, platform-independent standards to improve data quality and accelerate product development in the pharmaceutical industry. For more information about CDISC, visit the Web site at http://www.cdisc.org. |
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