munging metadata

Lots of new initiatives showed promise at the CDISC 2015 Interchange conference in Chicago on November 9-13.  The EHR2CDASH (E2C) project demonstrated the potential of healthcare link technologies used with the CDISC standards. The E2C XPath statements used to grab HL7 C-CDA/CCD document content will be stored in SHARE to support the implementation of CDASH forms that can be pre-populated with EHR content. A group of CFAST TA standards development stakeholders reviewed the new processes and tools that will be used for developing the Prostate Cancer standard. BiomedicalConcepts continue to garner attention as a key element of the semantic layer in the CDISC standards model. The growing CDISC standards model so important to the SHARE work was on display during the poster session. Use of the ODM standard was highlighted, including an extension to support its use in modern hand-held devices. There was quite a bit of enthusiasm and interest in SHARE activities, as evidenced by the cr...

SHARE wasn't only the theme of this year’s International Interchange, it was also a launch of sorts. CDISC has certainly talked about SHARE at past Interchanges, but this year’s dialogue had a different quality to it. This was largely driven by the fact that the wrappers were taken off the SHARE software, and attendees actually got a preview of what’s coming. We’re still talking about the vision for SHARE, maybe more than ever, but we’re also talking specific features and functions, as well as when we’ll begin using the application. During the SHARE session on Thursday the SHARE Road Map was presented, the version of SHARE currently under development was demonstrated, and we saw how SHARE and CFAST fit together.  The release of SHARE R1 is planned for the first quarter of 2014. After initiating the project in 2007, and following a longish gestation period, the implementation is on target to deliver in a period of just under 6 months. We have a long way to go to fully realize t...