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Using SDTM data directly from BioStats to draft patient narratives has several tangible and intangible benefits, not the least of which is eliminating the need for patient profiles and giving time back to BioStats teams to do more constructive work. Both Medical Writers and BioStats see this as a welcome trend; it eliminates many of the mundane and tedious steps in writing both patient profiles and patient narratives and empowers them to focus on relevance and key message development - areas where human intelligence is key.

SEND datasets have become an integral part of the review, analysis, and interpretation of nonclinical toxicology studies, and this will trend will only continue to grow. The SEND dataset creation process is challenging and often requires a combination of data integration and manual effort, making quality control a critical step to ensuring that these dataset packages are fit for use. On April 18, Senior Product Management Director Peggy Zorn delivered an information-packed presentation on best practices and recommendations for SEND dataset review and visualizations. Check out the recap!

In March 2023, the PMDA published an updated version of its Validator Rules. Pinnacle 21 Principal Consultant Chikaaki Nakao delivered an overview of the differences between newly released version 4.0 and the now legacy version 3.0.

In December 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published an updated version of its Validator Rules. Pinnacle 21 Principal Consultant Michael Beers delivered an overview of the differences between newly released version 1.6 and the now legacy March 2021 version 1.5.

P21 is proud to announce that support for CDISC Open Rules Engine (CORE) is now available in P21 Community 4.0. We have expanded CORE’s reference implementation to let you execute machine-readable CDISC Conformance Rules within the familiar P21 toolkit. This new CDISC Engine can run from the desktop GUI or command-line interface (CLI) on any platform in which you have already installed P21 Community.

As of April 25, 2022, we have released P21 Community 4.0 to general availability! Install it now from our Downloads page.

P21C 4.0 is the first major release of this application since P21's M&A with Certara in October 2021, per the commitment that P21's software applications will “continue to be supported, updated, and developed.”

On December 15th, 2021, the Japanese Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) published its long-awaited update to the validation rules for SDTM, ADAM and Define.xml. PMDA Validation Rules 3.0 introduce additional standard conformance rules from CDISC, support for ADaM-IG 1.1, and many other changes.

At Pinnacle 21, we've got you covered. We have released support for these new rules in our latest validation engine PMDA 2010.2. And in this webinar, we've shared everything you need to know about PMDA Validation Rules 3.0.

On November 29th, CDISC released updated versions of SDTM and ADaM, including standardized structures for medical devices and new non-compartmental analysis data.

Moving to new versions of standards is always a challenge and requires planning. Pinnacle 21's subject matter experts Trevor Mankus and Michael Beers summarized key changes and answered industry questions in this webinar and the discussion below, so you can better prepare to up-version your study data.

New PMDA Engine

Pinnacle 21 is happy to announce the latest Validation Engine for submissions to Japan's PMDA! 🇯🇵

P21 has spent many months developing this Engine with and for the PMDA, and now the industry—whether as users of P21 Community (P21C) or clients of P21 Enterprise (P21E)—can utilize it for expanded standards support, e.g., ADaMIG 1.1, in their eData submissions to the Japanese health agency.

In October, 2021, Pinnacle 21 was successfully acquired by Certara, Inc. (Nasdaq: CERT), a global leader in biosimulation and regulatory science. In this post, we recap P21's founding impetus, share the benefits of joining Certara, and set expectations for the great things to come.