Medidata API
Rave Web Services is a REST API exchanging CDISC ODM 1.3 XML for study metadata, clinical data extraction, and import. Access routes through Developer Central, approval-gated with members barred from advertising membership. Auth is HTTP Basic with study-scoped credentials plus a custom HMAC scheme.
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Medidata scores F on the API Report Card. Rave Web Services is a REST API exchanging CDISC ODM 1.3 XML for study metadata, clinical data extraction, and import. Access routes through Developer Central, approval-gated with members barred from advertising membership. Auth is HTTP Basic with study-scoped credentials plus a custom HMAC scheme.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Medidata Solutions is the world's largest clinical-trial technology platform, headquartered in New York City and owned by Dassault Systemes since the $5.8B acquisition in October 2019.
Vertical: Healthcare / Clinical Trial EDC / eClinical (Airtable bucket: Healthcare; closest Sanity vertical: Healthcare/EHR). Electronic data capture (EDC) of case report form (CRF) data at investigator sites, including source data verification (SDV), edit checks, and query management.
9/10 within clinical trials. Medidata Rave is the most widely deployed EDC platform globally and has been used in roughly half of all FDA-approved drug submissions over the past decade.
Founded 1999 by Tarek Sherif and Glen de Vries in New York City. IPO 2009 (NASDAQ: MDSO); acquired by Dassault Systemes October 2019 for $5.8B; now operates as a Dassault Systemes brand on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Founded 1999, IPO 2009 (NASDAQ: MDSO), acquired by Dassault Systemes in October 2019 for $5.8B.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.