JANUS

JANUS is the roman god for gates or doors. With the two faces, he is supposed to depict data and knowledge.

From FDA point of view they are swamped with data in paper format, now that is almost impossible to do anything remotely smart with paper. Out of this need came out JANUS:

Part of an agency initiative to enhance decision making through improved management of study data

• Improved access to data
  
• Standardization of data including vocabulary
  
• User friendly tools
  

Goal is to improve analysis of data From data in a single study

• to data across multiple studies in a single submission
• to data across multiple submissions

At this point JANUS is meant to be a comprehensive data model that can deal with many different types of data and meta dataJanus is meant to be a comprehensive data model that can deal with many different types of data and meta data.

JANUS is still in implementation phase and we see at as an confusion between HL7 and CDISC. We will soon discuss on this mess with HL7 and CDISC.

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