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University of Louisville and Clinical Trials Unit
● Large, public institution
● Complex research environment
● ~40 staff members
● Three functional teams
● ~150 enrolling studies
● All disciplines
● Internally-designed CTMS
Bringing novel treatment options to patients in our community as fast as we can
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• Paper reduction initiatives
• Folder structure on server
• DocuSign for signatures
• CTMS system
• Flash drives
A Band Aid Approach
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No More Paper
The operations team tried it all:
• Reviewing policies
• Scanning
• Shredding
• Boxing/unboxing
• Archiving
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eRegulatory Decision – Acceptance Criteria
Ease of use
Cloud-based platform
Process standardization
Autonomy
Increasing efficiencies
Attractive to sponsors
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Site Perspective on Implementation Challenges
Configuration
decisions
Security
constraints
New
terminology
Lack of
standardizationDedicated
time
Hybrid and
eRegulatory
system maintenance
The unknown
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Optimistic about the Future
• Process standardization
• Cloud-based platform
• Autonomy
• Ease of use
• Increase efficiencies
• Reduction in monitoring time and costs
~ 7,000 faculty and staff
Clinical and research environment
Existing hospital operating in Louisville
Multiple research affiliations with local hospital systems
Large affiliated physician practice
Purchasing a healthcare system in Louisville (November 1st)
World renowned researchers
First hand transplant
First artificial heart
Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center
We didn’t have a platform which would force them to do something in an order
Faced lack of standardization in our organization
We had been going through to become digital in many aspects
Clinical function is not in same area as regulatory and finance – four different locations on campus. Not shared platform for all groups to have access to information
Too expensive to develop our own CTMS capabilities for e-regulatory – our system not designed to do things like certify copies, signature, workflows
Past experience with commercial systems where we didn’t have good experiences – we were serving the system rather than it serving our needs
We had too many hurdles to do it ourselves
Expectations were very high and this was a barrier to finding a new system we wanted to adopt
Knew our staff would resist a new system too
With the things we tried, we solved some problems, but created others. I.e: no chasing signatures, but cannot find the right docs
Flash drive: saved paper/cost saving but still not as secure as we wanted, had limitations (no certification of docs, no sensitive information, no encryption)
CTMS only allows us to post only the most current docs. No structure for a complex folder structure
Monitors on site
After one year of digitization, we started an unboxing initiative
We had to create acceptance criteria for the solution if moving to eregulatory system
- Culture – collaborative approach, speaking same language, felt supported from day one
We had to make a lot of decisions while trying to gain deep understanding of how the system works.