Data Driven Award

More exciting news! Spaulding Clinical was recently named one of five finalists for the SCDM Data Driven awards.  SCDM is the Society for Clinical Data Management, and Data Driven is their annual global award, and this year's entrants will be judged on Monday October 18th, 2010 in Minneapolis, MN. The award is described as:

... honors the year’s best advancement in clinical data management, and recognizes innovation that improves technology or processes within clinical research studies.

and the Annual Conference co-chair Charlene Dark says,

"Our finalists have addressed many areas of clinical data management and how we can contribute to the speed and accuracy of getting products to market. The entrants are expanding the reach of clinical data management to improve collaboration among cross-functional groups within clinical research. We are encouraged to see the importance of clinical data management demonstrated through these value-added concepts and strategies."

The application we're presenting on is named SCi ECG (pronounced Sky ECG :) So what is SCi ECG, and why do other people think it's important?

• From a geeky tech perspective: SCi ECG bridges the gap between an electronic data capture system (EDC) and an ECG management system. Transcription of ECG data is completely eliminated.  SCi ECG auto-imports subject demographic data from the EDC system into the ECG system.  In addition to auto-importing the demographics, time-point programming is also done automatically.  In clinical trials, the timing of events relative to dosing is very very important, and the timings must be precise.  Assuming that a study schedule has been built in the EDC system, that schedule can be automagically propagated into the ECG system.  Finally, SCi ECG handles data transcription seamlessly.   As ECGs are processed, the results of the ECG are automatically transcribed into the EDC system.  In real time :) 

• From a practical perspective, SCi ECG empowers Phase 1 organizations to also act as ECG core labs.  Traditionally, this type of data handling is entirely separate from the Phase 1 clinical conduct.  So who cares?  Pharmaceutical sponsors and investigators do!  With a highly integrated system,  sponsors, investigators, and cardiologists have access to critical ECG data as it is being collected.  An integrated model leads to higher quality data in a fraction of the time!

(it's a good thing we're not being judged on our architectural diagramming skills!)

Next Monday, we'll be judged on the following:

1. Does the project solution significantly impact the quality and/or efficiency of the clinical data manager’s work?
2. Does the project represent an innovative application of a process and/or technology?
3. Does the project demonstrate an active collaboration between a service or technology provider and a study sponsor?