November, 2009 McDougall Scientific is the First CRO to Join Safe-BioPharma Association

McDougall Scientific Ltd., a Toronto-based pharmaceutical contract research organization (CRO) providing the compliant technical backbone for clinical research (i.e. statistics, data management, and document management), has joined SAFE-BioPharma Association, the non-profit association that created and manages the global SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and signature standard for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. McDougall is the first CRO and the first Canadian company to join SAFE-BioPharma.
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June 15, 2009 HITSP Begins Harmonization Process for Use of Electronic Health Records in Clinical Research

The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors that works to ensure the interoperability of electronic health records (EHRs) in the United States, has begun work to identify global standards to support "core research data element exchange", specifically, a common set of information that can readily be exchanged between EHRs and clinical research systems.
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