Links

The internet is full of useful information on various subjects, and here I have listed websites that I have found valuable to my work. They can be divided into several categories:

• Websites related to Healthcare Industry
  • Regulatory Agencies and Standards
  • Professional Associations
  • Portals / Journals / Magazines
• Websites (General - non-healthcare specific)
  • Professional Associations
  • Portals / Journals / Magazines
• Computer Software related to statistics, data management and management science
• Other Businesses / Professional Services you may find useful
• Useful Websites for Small Businesses

Regulatory Agencies and Standards for Healthcare Industry

• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• FDA Guidance Documents from Center of Drug CDER
• European Medicines Agency (EMEA)
• International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH)
• Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA)
• National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE)
• Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
• 21 CFR Part 11

Professional Associations Related to Healthcare Industry

• Association of Clinical Data Management (ACDM)
• Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)
• Drug Information Association (DIA)
• Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI)
• British Oncology Data Managers Association (BODMA)

Professional Associations (General)

• Data Management Association (DAMA)
• Royal Statistical Society (RSS)

Portals / Journals / Magazines Related to Healthcare Industry

• Applied Clinical Trials
• Bio-IT World
• British Medical Journal
• Free Medical Journals
• Inpharm
• MediLexicon - Online database of pharmaceutical and medical abbreviations

Portals / Journals / Magazines (General)

• AllStat - UK-based Statistics Discussion List
• DM Review
• SAS-L - Discussion List for SAS users
• - Tek-Tips.com is a discussion forum for various softwares, programming languages as well as computer hardwares

Computer Software

• SAS
• SPSS
• R - Free software for statistical computing and graphics
• The Performance Dashboard - An excellent "dashboard" software for monitoring performance measures
• Winchart - Easy-to-use Windows-based Statistical Process Control software

• Virginia McFeeley - Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Expert / Life Coaching

Useful Sites For Small Businesses

• Business Balls - Free online articles, materials, and resources for the development of people, business and organizations.
• Business Link - Advice from start-up to maintaining and growing your business, website is run by the UK government
• Komplett - Good place to buy computer equipment and accessories
• Staples - A good place to get your office supplies and furnitures. Business account holders often get discounts and other deals too.
• Skype - Internet Telephony that allows you to talk free on the computer to other Skype users through the internet (broadband connection required), plus very cheap calls to landlines and mobile phones around the world.
• Freeparking - Good site for registering domain names.
• Expedia - For all your travel needs. We book nearly all our flights and hotels via this site.