OncoreR Receives caBIGTM Bronze Compatibility Certification

PercipEnz Technologies, Inc., creators of the most widely adopted clinical trials management software system among cancer clinical research centers, has received notice that their flagship product, Oncore, has been awarded the coveted caBIG Bronze Compatibility Certification.

The certification is based on compliance with guidelines set by the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (NCI's caBIG) program. caBIG is an NCI sponsored, voluntary network of biomedical informaticists who are working to creating interoperable software and data sets. The objective of caBIG is to provide a framework to both access and use data from remote data resources with the ultimate goal of creating greater transparency and efficiency for cancer clinical research operations.

"Oncore's certification as caBIG compatible is good news for the 20 cancer centers that use the system," says Srini Kalluri, President and CEO of PercipEnz. "It will also be of great interest to others in the research community because Oncore can play a key role in the adoption and adaption of caBIG standards and technology."

Currently, Bronze is the only certification available for software developed outside of the caBIG program. "Of course we will be among the first to pursue Silver-level compatibility as soon as the certification process becomes available," says Kalluri.

Achieving this certification reflects that Oncore complies with the caBIG guidelines in each of four areas: (1) Programmatic access to data; (2) Use of controlled vocabularies; (3) Proper use and accessibility of data elements and metadata; and (4) The availability of a diagrammatic representation of the information model used.

PercipEnz has been an active participant in caBIG since its inception. In addition to the company's direct participation in caBIG special interest group activities and conferences, many members of the Oncore community have provided leadership in various caBIG initiatives, committees and advisory panels.

As part of its commitment to working with caBIG, PercipEnz hosts a collaborative initiative for cancer centers participating in the "Getting Connected with caBIG" program. This initiative allows the participating cancer centers to leverage their collective expertise and common informatics infrastructure to achieve the goals outlined by caBIG. Bi-weekly teleconferences provide a forum for plan development, identification of opportunities to integrate with caBIG technologies, and discussion of issues related to the centers' progress.

"We're committed to providing research institutions unfettered access to secure electronic data exchange with each other, NCI, and their local environments," says Dr. Tony O'Hare, chief scientific officer at PercipEnz. "We believe that caBIG and the caDSR repository have a critical role to play in this."

caDSR is a repository of harmonized data elements and electronic case report forms that was created by caBIG.

"We took a big step toward making caBIG semantic interoperability easy for our users by interfacing with caDSR in version 8.0," says O'Hare.

The interface allows Oncore users to seamlessly import and begin using Common Data Elements (CDEs), controlled vocabularies, entire electronic case report forms, and other objects maintained in caDSR. Adds O'Hare, "And, they can do all of this from within one screen within the Oncore system."

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, PercipEnz Technologies, Inc. (http://www.percipenz.com) develops and markets, enterprise-class clinical and translational research management systems for academic research organizations. By adopting a highly collaborative product development process, PercipEnz gathers, distills and fine-tunes the best ideas from world-class research institutions to deliver solutions addressing key operational challenges.

The company is host to Onsemble (http://onsemble.net)(R), a community comprised of research staff from centers around the country. Semi-annual Onsemble conferences provide important networking and educational opportunities for people concerned with excellence in clinical research operations. Starting as a consortium of cancer centers that use Oncore software to manage their clinical research operations, the community now boasts more than 500 members.

For more information, see the Bronze Compatibility Certification page at the caBIG website: https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/guidelines_documentation/bronze/#bronze

OncoreR Receives caBIGTM Bronze Compatibility Certification

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