COG Announcement Archives

2018

October

• COG Member Web Site Maintenance – Wednesday, October 24, 2018, between 4:00 pm and 6:30 pm PST
  On Wednesday, October 24, 2018, between 4:00 pm and 6:30 pm (PST), the COG IT department will be conducting system maintenance on the COG Member Web site. During this time period, the COG Member Web site and all functions and services, including eRDES reservations, study enrollment and study data entry will be unavailable for use. Please note that the COG Patient registry and enrollments in OPEN and data entry in iMedidata, Rave are NOT affected.

  Please plan accordingly to ensure business continuity during this time period.

July

• COG Member Web Site Maintenance - Saturday, July 7, 2018, between 8:00 am and 12:00 pm (PST)
  The Children’s Oncology Group (COG) is conducting important maintenance on COG systems on Saturday, July 7, 2018, between 8:00 am and 12:00 pm (PST). During this time the following systems and services are unavailable:
  • COG Member Web site
  • COG Patient registration, enrollment, callback, manual treatment assignment and study data entry in OPEN (Note: Data entry in iMedidata Rave is not impacted)

Please plan accordingly to ensure business continuity during this time period.

April

• The Children’s Oncology Group (COG) is conducting important maintenance on COG systems on April 7, from 9:00 am until 10:00 am (PST). During this time, the following services will be intermittently unavailable:
  • COG Member Web site
  • COG patient registration and services in OPEN, eRDES and RDE1 systems, including but not limited to enrollment, callback, manual treatment assignment and study data entry. (Note: iMedidata Rave is NOT affected.)
  
  Please plan accordingly to ensure business continuity during this time period. If you have questions or concerns, contact the COG Helpdesk at Helpdesk@childrensoncologygroup.org.

2017

May

• COG Request for Proposals: Certified Meeting Planner

March

• On Thursday, March 16, 2017, between 8:00am - 2:00pm(PST) the COG Member web site (members.childrensoncologygroup.org) and related applications will be down as we conduct system maintenance. The following applications and services will be unavailable for use. Please plan accordingly to ensure business continuity:
  • COG Member Web site and all functions and services, including eRDES reservations, study enrollment and study data entry. (Please note that the COG Patient registry and enrollments in OPEN and iMedidata, Rave are NOT affected.)
  • DSMC Review
  • Manuscript Review
  • Fellows Approval
  • GOCIQ
  • WPP

2016

December

• COG Request for Proposals: Storage Area Network (SAN)

November

• On Saturday, November 5th between 6:00am and 2:00pm (PST), the COG IT department will conduct an IT Disaster Recovery test to ensure that COG systems can reliably and effectively support critical business operations in the event of a disaster affecting the COG Operations/Statistics and Data Center. During this testing period, all COG systems will be unavailable for use by COG Members and COG staff. This includes, but is not limited to, the following systems and services:
  • Patient registration, reservation, enrollment, callback, manual treatment assignments, study transfers and study data entry in eRDES/OPEN/RDE1 (Data entry in Medidata Rave is not affected)
  • All COG Web and desktop applications (e.g., COG Member Web site, Manuscript Review, etc.)
  • All COG network related systems and services (e.g., email, VPN, helpdesk, etc.)
  
  Please plan accordingly to ensure business continuity during this time period.

September

• Major League Soccer WORKS has partnered with Children’s Oncology Group to focus efforts on Childhood Cancer Awareness - 09/01/2016

June

• On Thursday, June 2nd between 10am and 12:30pm (PST), the Children’s Oncology Group is conducting important maintenance. During this time period, the following systems and services will be unavailable for use:
  • Patient registration, enrollment, callback, manual treatment assignments and study data entry in eRDES/OPEN/RDE1 (data entry in OPEN and iMedidata, Rave will not be affected)

  Please plan accordingly to ensure business continuity during this time period.
  
  

May

• On Sunday, May 8th between 10am and 11am (PST), the Children’s Oncology Group is conducting important maintenance. During this time period, the following systems and services will be unavailable for use:
  • Patient registration, enrollment, callback, manual treatment assignments and study data entry in eRDES/OPEN/RDE1 (data entry in iMedidata, Rave will not be affected)
  • All COG Web applications (e.g., COG Member Web site, Manuscript Review, COG Reports (SSRS) etc.)

  Please plan accordingly to ensure business continuity during this time period.

April

• COG Chair Peter Adamson, M.D., appointed to Blue Ribbon Panel of Vice President Joe Biden’s National Cancer Moonshot Initiative

March

• On Sunday, March 27th between 10am and 12pm (PST), the COG IT department will conduct important maintenance on COG systems. During this time period, all COG Web applications will be unavailable for use by COG members and staff.
  
  This includes, but is not limited to, the following systems and services:
  • Patient registration, enrollment, callback and study data entry in eRDES /RDE1 (OPEN and Medidata Rave will not be affected)
  • All COG Web applications (e.g., COG Member Web site, Manuscript Review, Individual Membership application, etc.)

  Please plan accordingly to ensure business continuity during this time period.

February

• On Sunday, February 28th between 10am and 12pm (PST), the COG IT department will conduct important maintenance on COG systems. During this time period, all COG Web applications will be unavailable for use by COG members and staff..
  
  This includes, but is not limited to, the following systems and services:
  • Patient registration, enrollment, callback and study data entry in eRDES /RDE1 (OPEN and Medidata Rave will not be affected)
  • All COG Web applications (e.g., COG Member Web site, Manuscript Review, Individual Membership application, etc.)
  
  Please plan accordingly to ensure business continuity during this time period.
• On Sunday, February 21st between 9am and 2pm (PST), the Children’s Oncology Group is conducting important maintenance on COG systems. During this time period, all COG systems will be unavailable for use by COG Members and COG staff.
  
  This includes, but is not limited to, the following systems and services:
  • Patient registration, enrollment, callback, manual treatment assignments and study data entry in eRDES/OPEN/RDE1 (Data entry in iMedidata, Rave will not be affected)
  • All COG Web and desktop applications (e.g., COG Member Web site, Manuscript Review, COG Reports (SSRS), etc.)
  • The BPC Kit Management Web application.
  
  Please plan accordingly to ensure business continuity during this time period.

2015

October

• On Sunday November 22nd, between the hours of 10:00 am and 12:00 pm (PST), the COG Member Web site (including eRDES) will be down for approximately 2 hours for system maintenance. All COG Member Web site services, including eRDES reservations, study enrollment and study data entry will be unavailable during this time. Please plan accordingly.

September

• COG Request for Proposals: Data Center - 09/24/2015
• Major League Soccer WORKS has partnered with Children’s Oncology Group to focus efforts on Childhood Cancer Awareness - 09/01/2015

August

• Planned COG Member Web Site Downtime - Disaster Recovery Testing - 08/10/2015

June

• Updates for the Pediatric Cancer Community from the White House- Dr. Peter Adamson named by President Obama to the National Cancer Advisory Board Updates for the Pediatric Cancer Community from the White House- Dr. Peter Adamson named by President Obama to the National Cancer Advisory Board - 06/19/2015

May

• Children’s Oncology Group Family Handbook is now available for E-Readers - 05/27/2015
• COG Member Web Site Maintenance Sunday May 17th - 05/13/2015
• The Children’s Oncology Group, a member of the Alliance for Childhood Cancer, is pleased to announce that this year's Childhood Cancer Action Days in Washington, DC is scheduled for June 15-16, 2015. - 05/11/2015

March

• New Drug Approved for Children with High-Risk Neuroblastoma - 03/15/2015

• Maintenance Window for all COG Systems and Web Sites – April 5th, 10am to 2pm (PST)Maintenance Window for all COG Systems and Web Sites – April 5th, 10am to 2pm (PST) - 03/30/2015

February

• Two Return of Results lay summaries are now posted on the COG Return of Results webpages - 02/25/2015

January

• COG Maintenance Window - Sunday January 18th from 10am until 2pm PST - 01/13/2015
• Climbing Kilimanaro to Promote - and Fund - Cancer Clinical Trials - 01/05/2015

2014

December

• COG Maintenance Window - Sunday December 14th from 10am until 11am PST - 12/11/2014

November

• COG Request for Proposals: Meeting Planner - 11/20/2014

October

• COG and NCI announce development of a Pediatric MATCH Trial - 10/23/2014

April

• Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation among early funders of Children’s Oncology Group’s Project:EveryChild- 4/23/2014
• Special announcement: Publication of a correction to a scientific article -- Long term follow-up in high risk neuroblastoma patients (Study CCG-3891)- 4/18/2014
• Hyundai Hope On Wheels Awards $2 Million Research Grant to The Children's Oncology Group To Fund Project:EveryChild - 4/8/2014

February

• COG Member’s Website Scheduled Outage, Monday, February 24th starting at 3 pm PST - 2/19/2014
• The Illinois Secretary of State's Office is now offering a Curing Childhood Cancer Specialty License Plate to support childhood cancer research - 2/07/2014

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