Good Programming Practice Project Team

Welcome
This page describes the scope and remit of the Good Programming Practices project team in health and life sciences.

Mission

To promote, develop and share Good Programming Practice within Healthcare and Life Sciences software development
To develop formal guidelines for Good Programming Practice that can be used for

A basis for code development and code reviews within Healthcare programming. Supporting development (providing standards for development) of central code repositories. A standard for exchange of code between organisations (Contracted code or between Sponsors and regulators)

Maintain awareness of Good Programming Practice in the programming community.

Objectives
Present and promote Good Programming Practice work at conferences Drive discussion of 4 Good Programming Practice topics through discussion forums etc. in order to raise awareness of Good Programming Practice and to improve available documentation of Good Programming Practice Establish the project as an active and integral part of PHUSE Maintain an active team of members

Activity

Study on Good Programming Practices

A lot of organisations have Good Programming Practice guidelines and many programmers promote them, but what happens in practice? We are developing a study to find out to what extent Good Programming Practice is used and if any specific guidelines have more importance than others. Study on Good Programming Practices in Health and Life Sciences

Conference presentations

Publications

PHUSE 2009 Industry Standard Good Programming Practice for Clinical Trials

(Using SAS)

PharmaSUG 2011 Good Programming Practices in Healthcare Creating Robust Programs

Project Members

Mark Foxwell Chair, PRA, UK

Shafi Chowdhury Shafi Consultancy

Beate Hientzsch HMS analytical, Germany

Maria Dalton GSK, US

Gayathri Kolandaivelu Janssen Research & Development, US

Jane Marrer MSD, US

Ninan Luke Pfizer, India