Return on the 2012 global OpenClinica conference

Apr 26, 2012 by     1 Comment     Posted under: EDC, Event, Events, Menu, OpenClinica
On April 22nd, I flew to Boston for the OpenClinica Global conference with Hendra, our lead OpenClinica developer. This was my third consecutive attendance to the OpenClinica conference. Despite the fact that Boston is over 3,000 miles away, and the weather often cold and rainy, the conference offers good value as we get to meet the active and vibrant open source EDC community, learn about their recent innovations and listen about OpenClinica roadmap.
This year, we presented our generic SAS module to easily export SAS datasets in a CRF format in a single macro call. The 40 attendees were very receptive our SAS export module as it works with OpenClinica community edition that is freely available. In addition, OpenClinica gave us a demo booth for CDISC Express, our Open Source technology to easily convert OpenClinica data to CDISC SDTM. We were glad for the visibility and the OpenClinica team is always receptive on suggestions to make the conference as effective as possible for all attendees.
Here are my main takeaways from this year conference:
  • OpenClinica has committed to a quicker turn-around on fixing bugs
  • OpenClinica is gaining very strong momentum in Academia to the point that many universities IT department are forced to drop their home-grown EDC applications to standardize on OpenClinica
  • I have met a number of individuals and companies that have run over 20 studies with open source EDC
  • OpenClinica can work and go through formal software validation on the Cloud
  • Companies are starting to build Android interface that uses OpenClinica in the back-end

I have also noticed that the attendees from the OpenClinica conference are even more friendly than most other conferences. I guess open technologies are adopted by open people :-)  Hats off to Ben Baumann and his team on a very successful 2012 conference! If they are able to speed-up the development of new features while minimizing software bugs, I have no doubt they will be the dominant EDC player within a few years.

 

Ale Gicqueau,

President & CEO at Clinovo

ale.gicqueau@clinovo.com

 

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