*ASTER

ASTER spawns Microsoft HUG 2010 Innovation Award – please see "Claricode Recognized as Winner of Microsoft HUG 2010 Innovation Award" 

Here’s a recent presentation given at the Annual Drug Information Association Meeting in Boston

Here’s a one-page-description of the *ASTER pilot

Here's a Wall Street Journal article about the *ASTER pilot

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The Collaborators

Partners HealthCare was founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Partners is an integrated health care system that offers patients a continuum of coordinated high-quality care. The system includes primary care and specialty physicians, community hospitals, the two founding academic medical centers, specialty facilities, community health centers, and other health-related entities. Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization.

CDISC is a global, open, multidisciplinary, non-profit organization that has established standards to support the acquisition, exchange, submission and archive of clinical research data and metadata. The CDISC mission is to develop and support global, platform-independent data standards that enable information system interoperability to improve medical research and related areas of healthcare. CDISC standards are vendor-neutral, platform-independent and freely available via the CDISC website.

CRIX (Clinical Research Information eXchange) International was founded in December 2006 to develop products and services that would accelerate and streamline the interaction between sponsors of new drug products, their business partners, research institutions, academia, and health authorities involved in bringing new therapies to patients throughout the world. It is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA. For more information, please visit http://www.crixinternational.org or email Jennifer Whinnem at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Pfizer discovers and develops innovative medicines to treat and help prevent disease for both people and animals. We also partner with healthcare providers, governments and local communities around the world to expand access to our medicines and to provide better quality healthcare and health system support.