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ISTO Welcomes New Members
In November, IEEE-ISTO announced the formation of its newest member program, the IMPALA Consortium. The Inter coMPany quALity Analytics (IMPALA) Consortium’s mission is to transform the Biopharmaceutical Clinical Quality Assurance (QA) process in the Good Clinical Practice and Good Pharmacovigilance Practice areas, by using advanced analytics and promoting the adoption of this new approach and associated methodologies by key industry stakeholders (e.g. pharma quality professionals, Health Authorities) to assure safe use, therefore building patient trust, accelerating approvals and ultimately benefiting patients globally.
The IMPALA Consortium provides the strategic focus for working across the Biopharmaceutical ecosystem to develop and gain industry-wide consensus for the adoption of improved QA using advanced analytics and best practices to be used across the industry; ultimately improving patient outcomes and quality care at greater efficiency and greater speed.
IMPALA work products involve the following areas of focus:
- Clinical Safety Reporting
- Audit Scheduling
- Data Integrity
- Anomaly Detection in Audit Trail
Industry workshops are also being worked on. Learn more
Sponsored by the Space Systems Command (SSC) under the United States Space Force (USSF), the Space Systems MOSA Interface Standards Alliance is a Government-guided collaboration with IEEE-ISTO for the development of Modular Open System Approach (MOSA) interface standards that enable interoperability at key space system interfaces. Learn more
Alliance Program Highlights
Webinar Recording Now Available: “Mind the Data Sharing Gap: Navigating Sponsor Policies and Data Protection Methodologies”
This webinar explores the CRDSA Technology and Innovation Work Group's data-sharing technology assessment framework and how it supports stakeholders in their evaluation of technologies and approaches that advance their data-sharing initiatives. The webinar features the framework, designed to assist
stakeholders in determining the requirements and use cases important to their organization. The resulting assessment scores can be used to compare how different technology approaches or project scopes meet organizational objectives.
Speakers include:
- Peter Mesenbrink, Executive Director of Biostatistics, Novartis
- Dave Alonso, Senior Data Product Manager, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
- Alain Nijmoluh Anyouzoa, Director of Data Services Analytics, Takeda
- Aaron Mann, CEO, Clinical Research Data Sharing Alliance
Digital IF Interoperability Consortium (DIFI) Completes Successful Workshop at MILCOM 2022
The Digital Transformation of SATCOM Workshop at MILCOM 2022, held November 28, 2022, was very well received with over 70 attendees. Approximately 20 posters, including demonstrations, were presented. The workshop began with a poster session and technology demonstrations showcasing digital IF and virtualization in SATCOM. The workshop ended with a panel session titled "When will the digital transformation begin breaking ground?".
RQA Workshop on Data Analytics Write-Up Now Available
The write-up on the recent RQA Workshop on Data Analytics is now available. The workshop took place at the RQA Conference in Brighton in November 2022, and was facilitated by Jennifer Emerson (Boehringer Ingelheim), Joanne North (BMS), Paula Walker (Roche), Joanne Donald (Roche), with MHRA comments by Jason Wakelin Smith (MHRA).
The objective of the workshop was to develop ideas where Data Analytics can be used in the present and in the future, across industry. The session resulted in lively discussion and wide-ranging ideas.
Register for Next Month's MIPI CSI-2 Security Forum
Join the co-chairs of the MIPI Security Working Group at 2 p.m. (PST), on 18 January 2023, for the MIPI CSI-2 Security Forum, in-depth look at the unique approach MIPI Alliance is undertaking to protect data streams between MIPI CSI-2®-based sensors and their related ECUs from the perspectives of authentication, integrity and confidentiality.
MIPI Automotive Workshop Sessions Now On Demand
All session presentations and recordings from last month's MIPI Automotive Workshop are available for developers and implementers to review key information and share these resources with colleagues. The workshop included technical sessions on MIPI A-PHY®, MIPI Automotive SerDes Solutions (MASS℠) and MIPI Alliance security efforts, presented by the leaders of the A-PHY and Security working groups.
MIPI Alliance Releases Four New Specifications
In the fourth quarter of 2022, MIPI added a publicly available specification to its I3C portfolio, and released updated member versions of two camera-related specifications and one debug specification:
● MIPI I3C Transfer Command Response Interface (TCRI℠ ) v1.0 defines standard Transfer Command and Transfer Response structures that I3C controller implementations can use as part of an interface for any application. (Available for download without a MIPI membership.)
● MIPI A-PHY Protocol Adaptation Layer for MIPI CSI-2 (PAL℠/CSI-2®) v1.1 extends support to the latest MIPI A-PHY® (v1.1) and MIPI PAL℠/GPIO (v1.0) specifications, and adds support for new features.
● MIPI Camera Serial Interface 2 (MIPI CSI-2®) v4.0.1 includes minor editorial clarifications and replaces MIPI deprecated terms.
● MIPI System Software – Trace (SyS-T℠) v1.1 defines an additional MIPI SyS-T packet type to support sending pure binary data packets.
PROGRAM NEWS & EVENTS
Recent News
Clinical Research Data Sharing Alliance (CRDSA)
- 26 September 2022: Podcast: Unlocking the True Potential of Clinical Research Data
- 14 September 2022: CRDSA’s Data Protection Work Group whitepaper “A Review of BioPharma Sponsor Data Sharing Policies and Protection Methodologies” is now available
Digital Illumination Interface Alliance
- 24 November 2022: Tridonic compares NEMA and Zhaga-D4i sockets for outdoor lighting
- 31 October 2022: LCA and DALI Alliance announce MOU
Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability Consortium (DIFI)
- 10 October 2022: DIFI Announces Workshop at MILCOM 2022
LaSAR Alliance
MIPI Alliance
- 27 September 2023: MIPI I3C Interop Workshop Helps Ensure Seamless Interoperability of Broad Array of Multi-Vendor Devices
PWG
- 5 November 2022: PWG Last Call: IPP Driver Replacement Extensions v2.0 (NODRIVER) (concluded)
- 5 November 2022: PWG Last Call: IPP Production Printing Extensions v2.0 (PPX) (concluded)
TALQ
- 26 October 2022: 46 TALQ-certified Products Ease Investment Decisions in Smart Cities
Zhaga
- 6 December 2022: Zhaga Smart City Sensor Awards submission date extended
Upcoming Events
Digital Illumination Interface Alliance
- 17-19 January 2023: Light Middle East
- 7-8 March 2023: LEDucation
Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability Consortium (DIFI)
- 28-29 December 2022: MILCOM 2022 Military Communications Conference
MIPI Alliance
- 18 January 2023: 2023 MIPI CSI-2 Security Forum
- 6-10 March 2023: MIPI Member Meeting Europe #62
Wireless Power Consortium
- 4-8 January 2023: Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas
- 26 Feb-1 March 2023: MWC 2023 Barcelona
ITEMS OF INTEREST
What Does Metaverse Mean?
We increasingly hear the term “metaverse,” but what does it really mean, and how will it be used?
Some say it refers to an expanded set of digital worlds that will grow out of the digital environments with which we are already familiar, such as those used for online gaming. In this view, the metaverse will be an enhanced extended reality (XR) experience. It will offer new features and capabilities that will accelerate the digital transformation of society and enhance sustainability, by reducing the need for people to travel and perform resource-intensive activities in the physical world.
Inspiring and Accelerating Open Source Innovation
IEEE SA Open Offers a Free and Flexible Open Source Platform for Organizations, Developers, and Standards Projects
Open source – software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance – has changed the landscape of technology development, helping to accelerate innovation and enabling significant advancements in the way we live, work, and communicate.
Is AI Good for Health Care?
Industry experts weigh in on inequities and predictive analytics in a new podcast
With the rush toward using tools such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning technologies to analyze health data for insights, questions are being raised about how good a job the technologies are doing to improve outcomes.
WEBINARS ON HOT TOPICS
AgeTek Innovation: Bringing Robots Home to Support the Aging, Healthy, and Assisted Living
Upcoming Webinar: 18 January 2022
This four-part webinar mini-series will bring global multi-disciplinary experts to discuss the pragmatic applications of using robotic caregivers and companions to support this aging population.
Transmissibility-based Health Monitoring of the Future Connected Autonomous Vehicles Networks
This webinar focuses on fault detection, localization, and mitigation of CAV platoons considering time-delay, unknown disturbances, and human driven vehicles using transmissibility operators. Transmissibility operators are mathematical models that relates a subset of a system's outputs to another subset of outputs of the same system without knowledge of the external excitation or the dynamics of the system.
Cyber security challenges and advances in emerging technology areas webinar
This webinar is organized by the IEEE SA Connectivity & Telecom Practice, where innovators collaborate to realize robust, responsible, and affordable connectivity to meet the ever-increasing data, innovation, and economic aims across different regions around the world.
Register for this 4 part series
SAMPLING OF ISTO PROGRAMS
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