Research Compliance Software
Institutional Review Board Software
Customizable, Turnkey research ethics and compliance software solutions that work out of the box while also providing you the flexibility to configure the system to meet your own unique needs for a complete research administration and compliance solution.
Research Ethics and Compliance Software
Are you prepared for an onsite audit on research compliance? Is that site visit simply routine, or are federal agencies and other monitoring entities a concern? Are you ready for your next committee review? We have research administrative software solutions for the compliance review process.
InfoEd Research Compliance guarantees your efforts are to assure the ethical conduct of research is rewarded by easily managing compliance with federal, state and institutional governing bodies, as well as the facilitation of timely and accurate approvals from the appropriate committees and institutional governing bodies.
The InfoEd Research Compliance Suite of research administration software was specifically designed to assure your dedication to remaining compliant isn’t held back by administrative hurdles, errors, and hard to follow paper trails.
Research Management Software by InfoEd Global is the world-leader in research administration software and institutional research software suite products that solve problems with research compliance, management, and administration.
InfoEd’ s routing and workflow tools have been imperative to the flow of our business processes. The Research Administrators, College and Department Administrators, and Investigators have all benefited from the ease of being able to create and submit proposals and protocols in a timely manner. Also, our vast suite of modules has enabled us to create data integrations between Grants, Compliance and COI records.
Cris Boggs
Database Administrator
Clemson University
Research Software Compliance Solutions for:
Research Software Solutions Benefits At A Glance
- Support 100% electronic paperless processes
- Fully integrated data flow
- Connects researchers, committees and administrators in a single collaborative environment
- Full development, tracking and reporting of:
- Conflict of Interest disclosures
- Conflict of Interest Software Applications
- Human and Animal Subjects approvals
- Export Controls
- Reduce redundant data entry
- Track across all points of human, animal, and environmental safety research
Research Compliance & Training
Research Compliance Services
Fully integrated and inclusive of all touch-points, research software solutions, InfoEd Research Compliance empowers your team to collaboratively and transparently support and strengthen both research compliance and your research compliance and training or research monitoring programs for ethics compliance.
Human Studies IRB – Institutional Review Board / Ethics
Get On With The Research Ethics & Compliance Applications
Researchers, IRB/Ethics Administrators, and research admins are facing mounting research compliance pressures. Manual and paper-based methodologies and ill-suited applications are simply too cumbersome, time consuming, and need ethical considerations, and prone to error. IRB Software can solve that!
InfoEd Human Studies / IRB & Ethics is the one Institutional Review Board Software solution that allows all stakeholders access to the complete protocol and all reviews, while providing a perfectly suited and individualized perspective for each stake-holder. Nothing slips and nothing falls-through, because everyone is operating on the same Institutional Review Board platform for managing compliance with federal, state and institutional governing bodies with our Electronic Research Administration Software.
The Compliance Review Process Less is More
More than simplifying the entire compliance review process, InfoEd Human Studies provides full data integration into the comprehensive InfoEd eRA Suite. More data integration means less data entry, less paperwork, and less time spent on managing multiple software applications.
- Web-based and accessible from anywhere – ready when you are
- Individual, customized stakeholder views – everyone has the information they need when they need it
- Keeps you focused on creating protocols, not creating more paperwork
- Animal Studies (IACUC/Animal Care), Human Studies (IRB/Ethics), and Environmental Safety protocols are linked – reduces duplicated effort
- Simple version control accelerates approvals
- eRA Solutions for every step.
- The complete SPIN Global Suite Software
Researchers And Principal Investigators
- Designed to eliminate missed information or incomplete questions
- eForms are submitted electronically for signoffs or directly to the IRB office
- eForms can include mandatory questions and uploads
- Protocols submitted to multiple committees can be linked and statuses of each protocol can be easily managed and viewed
- Intuitive and very easy to use
Research Administrators
- Data flows seamlessly from other InfoEd Solutions
- A single system with protocol tracing, conditional alerts, reporting, and electronic letters to manage your paperless office
- Supports multiple routes including passing the protocol through various signoffs and information-only alerts
Committees And Reviewers
- Automated agenda and minutes – no retyping
- Empowers your primary concerns managing research ethics and protecting the rights, safety, and wellbeing of research participants
- Evaluate the risk-benefit ratio of research and document rationale for approval
- Easily monitor/audit ongoing research
InfoEd Human Studies / IRB & Ethics Core Functions
Protocol Development
Investigators create their own submissions and route them electronically to the IRB/EC office, minimizing redundant data entry
All administrative and protocol details associated with a submission can be coded and tracked
Templates can be developed and reused to accelerate the process for future protocols
Committee Review
Compliance workflow supports multiple reviews and levels of oversight for each submission, from intake to full committee review
All aspects of committee and meeting management can be handled within the system, from agenda generation to distribution of meeting minutes and notifications to investigators
Reviewer comments are captured electronically, forming the basis for meeting minutes and related correspondence.
Having one integrated system Streamlined the Research Administration process and gave our investigators a higher level of support to everyone involved
Krunal M Cholera, MS
Office of the Vice President for Research
Electronic Research Administration (ERA)
Temple University
Animal Studies / IACUC
Get The Research Started
Why spend more time than you have to getting the research started? The InfoEd Animal Studies / IACUC Solution was developed specifically to solve the real issues you told us you face:
- You didn’t get into research to do paper work
- You want your animal studies protocol to be in compliance
- You want the reviews to go smoothly and without delays
- You want to get started on the research
Simple enough. With InfoEd Animal Studies / IACUC, all stakeholders have access to the complete protocol and all reviews, while providing a perfectly suited and individualized perspective for each stake-holder. Nothing slips and nothing falls-through, because everyone is operating on the same page.
Researchers And Principal Investigators
- Designed to eliminate missed information or incomplete questions
- eForms are submitted electronically for signoffs or directly to the IACUC offices
- eForms can include mandatory questions and uploads
- Protocols submitted to multiple committees can be linked and statuses of each protocol can be easily managed and viewed
- Intuitive and very easy to use
Compliance Administrator
- Data flows seamlessly from other InfoEd Solutions
- A single system with protocol tracing, conditional alerts, reporting, and electronic letters to manage your paperless office
- Supports multiple routes including passing the protocol through various signoffs and information-only alerts
Committees And Reviewers
- Automated agenda and minutes – no retyping
- Manage animal research facilities inspections
- Track and report on animal care and use programs
- Detailed tracking of research methods
- Easily track personnel qualifications
- Integration with InfoEd COI
Less Frustration. Full Integration.
More than simplifying the entire compliance review process, InfoEd Animal Studies / IACUC provide full data integration into the comprehensive InfoEd eRA Suite. More data integration means less data entry, less paperwork, and less time spent on managing multiple software applications.
- Web-based and accessible from anywhere – ready when you are
- Individual, customized stakeholder views – everyone has the information they need when they need it
- Keeps you focused on creating protocols, not creating more paperwork
- Animal (IACUC/EC), Human (IRB/EC), and Environmental Safety protocols are linked – reduces duplicated effort
- Simple version control accelerates approvals
InfoEd Animal Studies / IACUC Core Functions
Protocol Development
Create your own submissions and route them electronically to the IACUC office, minimizing redundant data entry
All administrative and protocol details associated with a submission can be coded and tracked
Templates can be developed and reused to accelerate the process for future protocols
Committee Review
Compliance workflow supports multiple reviews and levels of oversight for each submission, from intake to full committee review
All aspects of committee and meeting management can be handled within the system, from agenda generation to distribution of meeting minutes and notifications to investigators
Reviewer comments are captured electronically, forming the basis for meeting minutes and related correspondence
Environmental Safety
Safety First
InfoEd Environmental Safety will help you confidently manage compliance with federal, local, and institutional requirements for use of potentially harmful biological, chemical, and radioactive substances in your research.
Researchers benefit from a fully electronic development and management system that:
- Simplifies preparing, submitting and tracking safety plans
- Eliminates redundant data entry and errors
- Easily manage routing and versions
- Provides a single collaborate environment with individually customizable views and permissions for all stakeholders, Researchers, Administrators, Reviewers, Safety Boards
InfoEd Environmental Safety Core Functions
Environmental Safety Development
Environmental Safety Development provides researchers with a web-based solution for preparing, submitting, and tracking safety plans. The easy to use software streamlines the administrative effort involved in submissions and offers useful new functionality for organizing research projects.
- Supports studies involving Radiation Safety, Biological Agents, Hazardous Chemicals; Genome Studies and RDNA
- Design and maintain application form templates
- Auto-Fill utility conveniently loads standard personnel and organizational details
- User-friendly interface with field level help
- Upload any supporting materials
- Record Auto-Checking
- Paperless electronic routing and approval mechanism for departmental reviews
- Manage complete submission history
- Easily clone safety plan amendments and modifications from the previous submission
- Easily compare and contrast a new submissions against currently approved versions
- Automatically copy new safety plans from existing records
Environmental Safety Management
Environmental Safety Management provides comprehensive support for tracking safety plan applications and organizing the operations of Safety Boards. The intuitive web-based solution puts information at the fingertips of busy research administrators so they can keep up with increasing submission activity and proactively monitor regulatory compliance.
- Workflow Manager allows immediate view of status of all safety plans
- Electronic workflow eliminates correctness checking and rekeying
- Ad hoc Reporting provides customizable views of all fields in all records
- Detailed board administration controls
- Automated monitoring of renewal dates
- System-wide renewal date tracking
- Automatically generates communications
- Tracks personnel development programs to ensure compliance with institutional training requirements.
- Track and manage Incident Reports
- Track current audits and past audit history
Conflict Of Interest
No Delays. No Worries For Research Compliance
Conflict of Interest disclosures need not significantly impact your research activities. Regardless of the complexities, InfoEd Conflict of Interest helps you collect researcher and staff disclosures, establish management plans, and fulfill your policy requirements.
Researchers And Principal Investigators
- Minimize administrative interruptions to your research activities
- Fulfill institutional policy requirements quickly and easily – on campus, at home, or while traveling
- Transparency tools help you minimize project approval delays by alerting you to incomplete personnel certifications
- Receive automatic notifications when updates are required
Compliance Administrators
- Ensure compliance with federal and/or state regulations regarding disclosure
- Easily and quickly identify relationships with external organizations in different contexts that might pose potential conflict of interest
- Reduce the time and effort spent on disclosures that have no external interests, allowing greater allocation to actual potential conflicts
- Easily able to access related disclosure, project, and management plan information with minimal effort and demonstrate integrity for your audit
InfoEd Conflict Of Interest Core Functions
InfoEd Conflict of Interest serves as a convenient online solution for individuals to disclose relevant relationships and holdings. Integration of the disclosure and review process with the approval and management of research activity helps to maintain the integrity of the process.
Flexible Data Collection
Document Management
Institutions can design and configure their own user interfaces for data entry using the InfoEd Solution integrated eForm tool, which allows for automatic population of data from standardized sources, as well as branching logic to guide the user through institution requirements
All administrative and protocol actions support document storage, allowing the institution to maintain electronic versions of committee review, communications, management plans, etc.
Document storage can be selectively integrated with institution repositories, which allows the system to act as a source or controlled access point to materials
Reporting
Research Integration
The reporting tools provide access to all fields, enabling configurable views of the data on demand, to quantify financials, track performance, and support diligence in the completion of action items
Institutions can model the interwoven relationships between conflict of interest management and the approval of research funding, research protocols and contracts
Event triggers and communications can flow between offices to strengthen research integrity
Contact Management
Committee Review
Leverages a central contact management system, providing visibility into the relationships with external organizations across research efforts
Track committee results and subsequent action from disclosure or certification
Track ongoing review to ensure compliance with management plans
Disclosure And Certification
Electronically disclose statements of external interests
Automatically triage submissions for review based on the responses provided
Identify external interests that relate to research activity
Conflict Management
Create management plans that are referenced appropriately against the relevant disclosure and research activities
Electronic management systems are crucial for the accessibility and governance of research information in today’s age. InfoEd Global has given the University of the Free State (UFS) the platform and flexibility to manage the entire research value chain through a single interface, from funding opportunities to project compliance, research outputs, intellectual property and research agreements management. InfoEd has made the development and management of research more efficient and it also streamlined the processes and procedures for our researchers and administrators.
Maricél van Rooyen
Research Information Management Systems
Project Manager and Research Ethics Advisor
Republic of South Africa
InfoEd GENIUS® Expertise Management Solution
GENIUS® is an integral piece of the InfoEd eRA Solutions Suite. It maintains all faculty CV and profile data and allows that data to be appropriately shared across other relevant InfoEd Solutions such as InfoEd Conflict of Interest and InfoEd Research Outputs.
Within GENIUS®, faculty have the ability to customize Biosketch templates and publish profiles globally. Data entered is also utilized in daily funding opportunity notifications from the InfoEd SPIN Funding Opportunities database.
- Easily maintain your entire profile online
- Collaborative with configurable privileges for both Researcher and Administrator access
- Configurable automatic update reminders
- Time-saving, pre-formed bio-sketches
- Upload and display any file type including photos, audio and video publications
