The Atorus team had a great time at PharmaSUG 2023 in San Francisco. Mike, Ashley, Danielle, Alyssa, and Rebekah all attended — and each participated in presentations, as well. Here’s a snapshot of what our experts brought forward this year.
Evolving Analytics: The Technological Migration of Biometrics
This was Mike Stackhouse’s presentation. He looked at how:
- Change doesn’t come easily in our highly regulated industry
- Biometric service technology is evolving and migrations are underway
- Our individual roles and procedures are evolving as well
- When it comes to clinical trial data management, “the promise of today might be the process of tomorrow”
Making Multilingual Programmers: A Targeted Approach to R for Clinical Trials Training
This was the presentation that Ashley Tarasiewicz led, alongside Jagan Achi from Jazz Pharmaceuticals. They discussed:
- The gap between the wealth of open-source training but lack of clinical trial workflow specific training
- Companies are starting to realize the benefits of having a multilingual programming team
- Multilingual programmers can tap into the best parts of each programming language in order to maximize process efficiencies
- Challenges and wins in finding the right training content, format, and candidates for clinical use R programming education
- Examples of successful strategies
Real Projects, Real Transition, Really Revolutionary: Transitioning to R for Biometrics Work
Danielle Stephenson, Alyssa Wittle, and Rebekah Oster presented on this topic at this year’s PharmaSUG. Here are some high-level takeaways from what they shared:
- The challenges and benefits of adopting new technology amidst the need for keeping existing workflows on schedule
- The time to consider, examine, and understand open-source adoption for clinical environments is now
- Ups and downs of the transition from SAS to R — including quality assurance
- Softening the learning curve
- Q&A on creation of TFLs and CDISC-compliant datasets using R
- What it looks like in real time to be able to tap into a multilingual programming team
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