Churchill, the FDA and a Fall
“When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.” According to the web this quote is from Robert M. Hutchins (1899 –1977) and according to Wikipedia, he was an educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, and president and chancellor of the University of Chicago.
Mad March and the FDA
It has been a busy few weeks for both work and personal reasons. For those who know us, it is lovely to announce that Amanda (AJ) and I got married on the first day of March. Some pictures from a friend can be found here and many thanks from us both to those who have sent [...]
Communicating the Value of Standards
To me the need for standards in clinical research seems well, quite frankly, obvious but perhaps that comes of working with CDISC for 5 years. In the past few months, I have come to understand that there are many reasons why companies struggle to implement standards and what interests me most, is that it is [...]
eClinical Plug and Play
If you have ever owned a mobile (cell) phone have a look in the draw at home, you know the one, the one filled with all the old chargers that only worked with one phone. I know I have one. Shortly, in Europe, this will be a thing of the past with the introduction of [...]
Ten Commandments for Effective Standards
About six months ago, I bought an Amazon Kindle. For those unfamiliar with this piece of technology it is an electronic book reader. About a week later, I bought a second Kindle for AJ who was taken with mine and complained that she did not have one herself! There are many discussions about Kindles and [...]
Reflections from DIA: CDISC or HL7?
During a session at the DIA Euro Meeting in Geneva last week, one of the speakers uttered the words “CDISC or HL7”. This is one of those statements that rather grates with me, as it demonstrates a lack of understanding of something that is very important when looking at standards and trying to build better [...]
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