University of Connecticut Health Center Adopts OpenClinica Open Source Clinical Trials Management Software

October 25 2006

The General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) at the University of Connecticut Health Center has chosen to adopt OpenClinica Enterprise to power its clinical research studies. OpenClinica is an open source software platform that enhances the productivity of managing clinical trails.

The GCRC at the University of Connecticut supports numerous research studies that cover a wide variety of medical domains. «We anticipate substantial gains in productivity as we roll OpenClinica out across our studies,» said Khamis Abu-Hasaballah, Director of Informatics at the GCRC. «OpenClinica should also allow the GCRC to support a larger number of studies than we have been able to before, with the same resources.»

The University has contracted with Akaza Research, LLC, to manage the implementation and provide ongoing enterprise-level services.

About the University of Connecticut Health Center

The University of Connecticut Health Center is a vibrant organization composed of the School of Medicine, School of Dental Medicine, John Dempsey Hospital, the UConn Medical Group, UConn Health Partners and University Dentists. Founded in 1961, the Health Center pursues a mission of providing outstanding health care education in an environment of exemplary patient care, research and public service.

About OpenClinica

OpenClinica is an open source web-based software platform that enables sponsors and investigators to manage clinical research data in multi-site studies. It facilitates protocol configuration, design of case report forms, electronic data capture, and study/data management. OpenClinica supports HIPAA and 21 CFR Part 11 guidelines and is designed as a strictly standards-based, extensible, and modular platform. OpenClinica v1.0 was released in late October 2005 under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). See http://www.OpenClinica.org.

About Akaza Research

Akaza research, a leading provider of open source clinical trial software, is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Akaza has developed and commercialized OpenClinica, the preeminent open source clinical trial data collection and management software. Akaza is bringing Open Source Software solutions into the mainstream of the clinical research enterprise by making high quality, standards-based solutions accessible for private and public research. Akaza Research provides support, training, and consulting services to its customers worldwide. See http://www.akazaresearch.com.