May 12, 2011 - 1:00pm
Presented by:
Tim Morris, Director, Research Informatics, Research and Health Sciences IT Division, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Kathryn Claypool, MPH, Research Informatics Analyst, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Title: “REDCap at Emory University: Implementation of an enterprise service for study based electronic data capture."
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Abstract:
The Research and Health Sciences IT Division (RHSIT) at Emory University supports multiple platforms and services to support research investigators across the university and the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute. RHSIT has deployed the Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) system as a hosted service and support data collection for a wide range of research studies. The division service includes initial consultation with investigators after which the investigator can choose to create and manage their own forms or utilize services provided by the division for form development. The division coordinates form-based data capture solutions with the investigator and the Biostatistics Department in the Emory Rollins School of Public Health to ensure data collection instruments meet overall study aims as well as data quality and downstream analysis requirements. RHSIT is also working on several initiatives to integrate form-based data capture with data from the Emory Healthcare Clinical Data Warehouse and a variety of clinical and research data sources.
In this seminar we will provide an overview of the Emory/RHSIT electronic data capture service and our utilization of REDCap as key tool in providing low cost services to investigators. We will also review our approach to research based data capture and management using a combination of technologies including REDCap.
Speaker Bio:
Tim Morris joined Emory University in February of 2008 as Director, Research Informatics in the Research and Health Sciences Information Technology Division after twenty years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is currently leading several initiatives that support data capture and analysis for clinical research studies across the Emory University research community and is also the lead on an enterprise laboratory information system implementation. In his previous position at the CDC, Mr. Morris served as the director of the Division of Informatics Shared Services in the National Center for Public Health Informatics and directed the implementation of standards based enterprise systems for alerting and communication, terminology services and secure reliable messaging.
Kathryn Claypool joined Emory University Research and Health Sciences IT Division after 10 years in public health at both the state and federal levels. Her expertise with epidemiology, surveillance databases, and public health data collection provides a unique perspective when working with clinical researchers to plan and design their databases at Emory. She manages the enterprise REDCap implementation for Emory University and its affiliates and applies expertise gained through years of public health service to assist researchers at Emory to better design and execute their research databases to yield more structured and validated data for analysis.