Huron consulting group’s click™ ctms to automate clinical trials
business processes for the ohio state university medical center
Chicago--(business wire)--huron consulting group (nasdaq: hurn), a leading provider of business consulting services, today announced that the ohio state university medical center (osumc) has selected its click™ portal software to automate clinical trials processes including budgeting, participant enrollment, visit scheduling, participant tracking, reporting, and sponsor billing. by standardizing approved clinical trial data on the click platform, osumc will eliminate duplicate data entry in downstream systems, such as the university’s institutional review board (irb), while ensuring that research charges will be billed accurately to study sponsors. the click clinical trials management system (ctms) will also re-use clinical system charge code data coming from the university’s epic system, further improving productivity. the university will roll out the new click ctms in two phases: an initial phase focusing on study startup administrative, compliance and financing processes and a second phase focusing on processes which occur once the trial begins. the second phase also targets integration with irb and epic electronic health records. “we are pleased to play a strategic role in streamlining clinical trials administration and compliance at the ohio state university medical center,” said nick stier, managing director, huron education. “with fully distributed collaboration, coding and billing processes will have greater efficiency, while centralized storage of results will provide reporting transparency for researchers and administrators alike. we hope these improvements to the business of research will speed the delivery of new therapies.” the ohio state university and many other leading research institutions use huron’s click portal platform to automate a wide range of administrative and compliance processes, including those associated with irb, institutional animal care and use committee (iacuc), conflict of interest (coi), grants, and clinical trials. about the ohio state university medical center located in columbus, ohio, the ohio state university medical center is one of the largest and most diverse academic medical centers in the country and the only academic medical center in central ohio. ohio state's medical center includes a top-30 college of medicine, six hospitals, a unified physician practice, a network of primary and specialty care practices, more than a dozen research centers and institutes and 20 core laboratories. this powerful enterprise is driven by a mission to improve people’s lives through innovation in research, education and patient care. about click, a huron solution click portal software is installed at leading academic medical centers and research institutions throughout north america. huron consulting group acquired click commerce in november of 2010 to expand the company’s solutions for the business of research within its huron education practice. huron education’s professionals have worked with 90 of the top 100 research universities in the u.s. more information can be found at www.clickcommerce.com. about huron consulting group huron consulting group helps clients in diverse industries improve performance, comply with complex regulations, reduce costs, recover from distress, leverage technology and stimulate growth. the company teams with its clients to deliver sustainable and measurable results. huron provides services to a wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations, including healthcare organizations, fortune 500 companies, leading academic institutions, medium-sized businesses and the law firms that represent these various organizations. learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.
