Services
Collection web applications
BioGrid has the capability to enable both clinician entered and patient reported data to be collected, ingested, accessed and analysed to provide data insights that will inform clinicians and researchers.
Clinical and research web applications
BioGrid has significant experience in developing web based clinical data collection applications for use in hospitals and clinics. BioGrid facilitates integration of data from hospital systems such as patient administration and pathology systems to ensure data entry efficiency. In addition, BioGrid facilitates integration of completed data into hospital electronic medical records.
BioGrid software development is underpinned by working closely with clinicians to ensure data collection applications match the clinic workflow for ease of use.
These clinical data collection applications can accommodate patient reported outcomes data, e.g. quality of life surveys, submitted online by patients directly into the application database.
BioGrid has developed a number of web-based applications for the collection and management of health information to support clinical care and facilitate clinical research. These applications are available for use by all BioGrid Members and Collaborators.
BioGrid has developed a number of web-based applications
Designed in partnership with oncology healthcare professionals, ACCORD (the Australian Comprehensive Cancer Outcomes and Research Database) is a web-based application for the collection and management of information relating to cancer patients diagnosis, treatment and outcomes. Through a simple user interface, ACCORD enables clinicians to review and update patient information at any time, including within clinics.
The Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Thoracic Clinical Quality Registry (ANZTHOR) has recently been established by the Australian & New Zealand Society of Cardiac & Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) as part of its efforts to provide a clinical quality registry for the routine collection and monitoring of surgical procedure data on all Thoracic Surgery performed in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Designed in partnership with dermatologists, the BioGrid Dermatology Clinical and Research Database is a web-based application that enables the management of patients’ dermatology condition diagnosis, treatment and follow-up information. Designed to operate within clinics, with clinicians reviewing and updating patient information during consultations, the application produces patient summary reports and letters to facilitate multi-disciplinary care.
Designed in partnership with endocrinologists, the BioGrid Diabetes Clinical and Research Database is a web-based application that enables the management of patients’ diabetes diagnosis, treatment and follow-up information. Designed to operate within clinics, with clinicians reviewing and updating patient information during consultations, the application produces patient summary reports and letters to facilitate multi-disciplinary care.
Designed in partnership with oncology healthcare professionals, the electronic Prostate Cancer Australian Database (ePAD) Clinical Registry is a web-based application designed to support the collection and management of information relating to patients with advanced prostate cancer. The clinical registry is being used to support research into the treatment and management of patients with prostate cancer.
Designed in partnership with endocrinologists, the BioGrid Pituitary Tumour Database is a web-based application that enables the management of patients’ pituitary tumour diagnosis, treatment and follow-up information. Designed to operate within clinics, with clinicians reviewing and updating patient information during consultations, the application produces patient summary reports and letters to facilitate multi-disciplinary care.
Designed in partnership with oncology healthcare professionals, the TABITHA Clinical Registry is a web based application designed for the collection and management of information relating to the diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of patients with HER2+ metastatic breast cancer. This clinical registry is being used to support research into the Treatment of Advanced Breast Cancer in the HER2 Positive Australian Patient (TABITHA).
Designed in partnership with oncology healthcare professionals, the TRACC Clinical Registry is a web based application designed for the collection and management of information relating to the diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of patients with advanced colorectal cancer. This clinical registry is used to support research into the Treatment of Recurrent and Advanced Colorectal Cancer (TRACC). The TRACC project commenced in 2009 and has since collected data from over 1800 patients from 16 participating institutions across Australia.
REDCap
BioGrid can assist with designing and configuring a dataset to your requirements utilising the REDCap software. REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases or research. The REDCap software is free to use if your site has a REDCap license and if your use is for non-commercial purposes.
REDCap can be configured more quickly than bespoke software can be developed, and for some research applications, such as patient questionnaires, it is ideal.
BioGrid has configured REDCap for use by clinicians working with rare cancers to provide an international dataset and collection tool that can be used across the world to facilitate consistent collection of data for rare cancers.
REDCap can be used to capture research study specific information that would not normally be collected in a clinical management system. BioGrid can facilitate custom solutions for sites that enables integration of other data to and from REDCap.
Using REDCap, the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Thoracic Clinical Quality Registry (ANZTHOR) has recently been established by the Australian & New Zealand Society of Cardiac & Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) as part of its efforts to provide a clinical quality registry for the routine collection and monitoring of surgical procedure data on all thoracic surgery performed in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
BioGrid assists with on-boarding hospitals to ANZTHOR. This includes managing the ethics, governance and contracting required to on-board a centre, as well as working with each centre on solutions for the integration of data from other data sources into the Registry.
Contact us to discuss your research data collection requirements and how BioGrid can assist.
Patient Reported Outcomes
BioGrid has developed, with ethics approval, online patient questionnaires or surveys for several disease areas. This includes development and management of web applications and databases.
These patient reported outcomes data (if consent is provided) can be made available through the BioGrid platform to connect to other hospital based clinical and administration datasets.
BioGrid can facilitate the comparison of patient reported outcomes data with clinician entered data due to BioGrid’s capability to connect hospital-based clinical data sets with patient reported outcomes data sets.
Contact us to discuss your research patient reported outcomes requirements and how BioGrid can assist.
Other services
Analytics and reporting
Expertise with data analytics and reporting to perform analysis and visualisation on behalf of researchers.
Collection web applications
Enable both clinician entered and patient reported data to be collected, ingested, accessed and analysed.
Grant application assistance
Provide you with a quotation and description of BioGrid services and benefits to include in your application.
SAS user training
Complimentary training sessions in the use of SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Visual Analytics.