ScenPro conducted knowledge acquisition across the entire spectrum of clinical trials data collection and data management and gained considerable expertise in this field. Our research enabled us to develop domain models that detail patient and researcher profiles, hierarchies of trial participant tasks, scenarios of use, and complex relationships between concepts in the clinical trials space. The domain models trace the flow of data from the data collection instrument at the patient level, to aggregation and transformation at the research institution, to analysis by statisticians, to data reporting to the sponsor, and finally to publication.
ScenPro has developed an impressive depth of experience in the field of medical metadata management. The National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Data Standards Repository (caDSR) is an ISO/IEC 11179 compliant metadata registry for healthcare data in the cancer research space. As a key player in the development and management of this metadata, ScenPro delivers tools and training for metadata curators. ScenPro analysts and software engineers have an extensive understanding of the metadata model, the business rules used with the caDSR, and the standard procedures for metadata curation and management.
The open source Common Data Element Curation Tool provides metadata curators across the nation with the primary mechanism for creating well-formed metadata compliant with NCI’s standards. ScenPro also developed the caDSR Sentinel Tool that allows curators to define events and set up alert notifications in the caDSR.
ScenPro has extended its metadata expertise to deliver web-based training to curators. We have taught hundreds of curators from the USA and other countries how to use available resources to create and re-use sound, consistent metadata.