Research IT Tools
Research IT at UW Medicine delivers innovative, custom-built tools that streamline research workflows and empower investigators and support staff to work more efficiently and effectively.
Tools for Researchers and Research Support Staff
We are committed to enabling excellence in research through technology. From data collection to project management, Research IT supports the entire research lifecycle with tools that improve efficiency, reduce burden, and promote collaboration.
REDCap
Research IT hosts and administers the Institute of Translation Health Sciences (ITHS) REDCap instance, which is part of University of Washington’s NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Science Award supporting research within the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho (WWAMI) Region. Researchers use REDCap for a variety of different purposes, including:
Administrating multi-site studies
Creating longitudinal studies with automatic follow-up surveys
Collecting data for low-budget clinical trials
Administering simple recruitment surveys
Supporting operational activities such as class registration or evaluation
Eliminating double data entry
REDCap Stats
Users
Projects
Leaf
Leaf is a powerful, fun, lightweight web application for querying clinical data. Leaf helps query clinical databases of nearly any data model for cohort estimation and data extraction, and seamlessly integrates with existing enterprise authentication systems to unleash the potential of translational biomedical research.
UW Cohort Discovery
UW Statistics
Chart Abstractions
Hosting leaf at your institution
LEAF is now in use by over 18 Institutions Nationwide
RISE
RISE is an activity tracking system for institutions supporting medical researchers and staff. Administrators and Providers can track activities in the form of Projects, notes, events and services as well as maintain a record of the regulatory and reporting information specific to medical research.
Ensure the consistent capture of data and reporting of it.
Prevent the use of shadow systems which fragment ITHS data and increase risk of data loss.
Create efficiencies and data richness when storing all ITHS program activity in a single database.
LEAF, RISE and TRU Scheduler were built in house to support research.
TRU Scheduler
The TRU (Translational Research Unit) calendar is a web based application built to meet the specific calendaring and scheduling requirements of an organization providing Clinical Resources to researchers such as Labs, Beds and Nurse activities such as the services provided by the ITHS.
Schedule Patients into, Rooms and Beds for Particular Study Visits.
Assign and track nursing time and services provided during each protocol visit.
Calculate Room Use charges for both inpatient and outpatient visits.
Reports for billing study teams for services provided.
