REDCap

This is about s- being supportive, sharing clinical burden." Or you can say, "Here are the things that we think as the researchers," or, "Here are things that the previous bodies of research have suggested we should see in the literature, and these are the ones that we're going to go with." It's a lot braver and a lot potentially more organic to do open coding.

I think if you were to do this on a large scale, you would say, "These are the themes that we're looking for." Redcap is what they used.

A lot of people use Qualtrics.

Both Red- Redcap and Qualtrics both now have a generative AI scraper.

I'm not suggesting-

Ooh, I was just gonna ask you about that [laughs]

if that's good or bad.

But you can say, uh...

They have invested a lot actually in research infrastructure.

So we have access to HIPAA compliant database development programs, such as REDCap, for example.

and the medical school that the hospital is associated with.

So the hospital, the administration, what's called the sponsoring institution, as per ACGME, they have invested in research.

But yeah, I think we're going to, I think data people have an opportunity right now to move into spaces and solve problems that they used to leave for other teams, which in a large organization like you is going to cause problems, right? Because we had the natural IT boundary give me a server give me a service and then we have data people doing on top of it um it's a bit like devops when the software engineers used to start deploying their own containers right their own ecosystems and they got value out of that in terms of reducing the value stream reducing the friction of that work i think we're going to see data people do that what do you think

oh this is like coming up so much right now at the hospital um there are so many processes where someone is entering something into a form there's a research form database tool called REDCap.

Somehow it's funded by the government.

It relates to healthcare research, but it has become at our hospital also a place that people can, you can create a form so easily and it creates a little database.

So that was a big thing that was called out to us.

And then number two was just dealing with REDCap broadly.

You know, RedCap is a free tool and, you know, powers a lot of research, but there are limitations.

There's a lack of support there, you know, no live support where you can go ask questions to.

We have a very low lift, high leverage foundation, tech stack, I guess I'll call it.

And then our EDC technology.

It's just superior to REDCap, certainly, and then checks all the boxes of functionality that you would expect with a mature EDC that's been around 20 years or so.

And I'll just add on the EDC front that we do have a few bells and whistles, we'll call it, for StudyHub users.