Research Spotlight: The REDCap Consortium

Recently BIC, on behalf of UK, joined Vanderbilt University and other collaborating institutions in the REDCap consortium project. REDCap – Research Electronic Data Capture – is a software toolset and workflow methodology to manage research data for research studies.

The consortium, initiated in August 2006, has shared the software and methodology with the larger research community of CTSA-, GCRC- and RCMI-participating institutions. The consortium is open to any academic institution, and members are provided with software and support at no charge, with the expectation that participants will contribute back to the overall project.

The product is a secure, Web-based application that is flexible enough to be used for any type of research. It provides an intuitive interface for users to enter validated data, and an export mechanism for end-of-study export of data to common statistical packages (SPSS, SAS, Stata, R/S-Plus). The CCTS Clinical Research Development and Operations Center will utilize REDCap.