Surety Joins Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium

HERNDON, VA -- November 03, 2003 – Surety, LLC, a leading provider of data integrity services, announced today that it has become the latest member of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), a group of more than 120 companies that work together to establish universally accepted data standards in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and device industries, as well as in regulatory agencies worldwide.

Through participation in CDISC’s Operational Data Modeling (ODM) and Submission Data Modeling (SDM) technical working groups, Surety looks to play an active role in shaping the vendor agnostic standards that will allow for end-to-end data flow of clinical trials from the initial acquiring source to electronic regulatory submission.

“We look forward to working with an organization whose efforts play an integral role in the research and development processes essential to achieving medical and biological breakthroughs,” said Tom Klaff, CEO of Surety. “Our experience with data integrity solutions will help to secure the intellectual property behind those breakthroughs.”

About CDISC

CDISC is an open, multidisciplinary, non-profit organization committed to the development of worldwide standards to support the electronic acquisition, exchange, submission and archiving of clinical trials data and metadata for medical and biopharmaceutical product development. The CDISC mission is to lead the development of global, vendor-neutral, platform-independent standards to improve data quality and accelerate product development in the pharmaceutical industry.

CDISC is made possible through the generous support of its members, sponsors, and volunteer participants. Additional information on CDISC and the CDISC open standards/models can be found on the CDISC website at http://www.cdisc.org.

Posted: Monday, November 3, 2003