StudyManager Improves Clinical Operations at a Major Academic Medical Center - Sponsored Whitepaper

Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) is on a critical path to doubling the size of its research enterprise by 2012. For this massive institution with more than three dozen research institutes, six hospitals, and the nation’s second largest medical school with twenty-six academic departments and facilities on nine campuses, achieving this goal demands an infrastructure, a comprehensive approach for staying on course, and measuring success along the way.

To launch the initiative, a Strategic Task Force was assembled in 2004 to evaluate how research was being conducted in various departments and to determine what resources were needed to reach the institution’s target. Out of that effort, the Office of Clinical Research (OCR) was created in July 2005 as a critical driving force toward the institution’s research objectives.