BRIDG 1.1 is Released!

The Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group (BRIDG) Technical Harmonization Committee (THC) is pleased to announce the Release 1.1 of the BRIDG Model. BRIDG is a domain analysis model representing protocol-driven biomedical/clinical research. It provides an overarching model that can readily be understood by domain experts and provides the basis for harmonization among standards within the clinical research domain and between biomedical/clinical research and healthcare.

The latest release adds significant new content and robustness to R1.0 and includes the following topics:

• CDISC Trial Design Model (TDM)
  
• CDISC Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM)  (Section 5)
• Preliminary BRIDG Representation of a Document Model based on the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
• Augmentation of the Activity Hierarchy
• Phases of a Trial and BRIDG Model 'Integration': the DEFINED, PLANNED, SCHEDULED, and PERFORMED 'pillars'
• The Study Relationship Stereotype: Representing Rules in the BRIDG Model
• Increased Support for Complex Data Types
• Strategy for BRIDG Model Version Management (Section 3)
  

By employing BRIDG as the means by which its clinical trials application modules exchange information and functionality, the NCI's caBIG™ program has now accumulated considerable experience about the use of "BRIDG in context", in terms of the use of the BRIDG model to enable computable semantic interoperability. BRIDG is central to caBIG™'s clinical trials informatics strategy. However the strength of the BRIDG model has always been collaboration between diverse stakeholder organizations - the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Level Seven (HL7) and the National Cancer Institute's caBIG™ program - in the pursuit of a common goal. The release of BRIDG 1.1, building on the foundation of BRIDG's first production release, marks another quarter of successful collaboration.

For more information, visit http://www.bridgmodel.org/; for inquiries please contact: bridg@mail.nih.gov.