Articles by Ian Sparks

Standards Compliance for Study Builders

In my last post I explained some of the standards compliance and comparison features in TrialGrid. Being able to determine compliance in a report is very useful but what about the Study Builder? How does a Study Builder know, during the setup of a Form, what the Standard allows to …

Standards Compliance

Standard Libraries. The concept is straightforward; A Standard Library is a set of Forms, Data Dictionaries, Edit Checks and other study design elements which can be used as building-blocks to assemble an EDC study design. Using a Standard Library should increase efficiency, eliminate variation, reduce study build times and therefore …

Unicode

If you haven't heard of Unicode you have certainly seen it. You are seeing it now since Unicode is the standard for the encoding of characters viewable in Web Browsers and on computers in general. As of this writing, version 10 of the standard includes more then 136,000 characters …