We’re interested in tracking patient contact hours. Specifically, the General Clinical Research
Center (GCRC) facilitates clinical research by providing investigators with
necessary resources such as – lab, technology, personnel, etc. Because GCRC’s
are NIH funded we must report our activities to NIH each year. The NIH will competitively renew our
grant provided we demonstrate to them sufficient need for a GCRC on the OUHSC
campus. In effect, the GCRC’s long-term survival is dependant on active
clinical research with patient contact hours and publications of course.
I’m currently using TimeLogger in a “beta”
effort. There are a couple of
nurses at the GCRC who have tracked their time to protocols, patient contact,
and other related research activities with the TimeLogger software using HandEra PDA’s.
The TimeLogger software has an intuitive interface and even allows for
billing a person’s time. Although we’re not interested
in the billing aspect it could prove useful in demonstrating ‘resources commited’ to a protocol. The Timelogger
software syncs to MS Access and other readily available DBMS’s.
I’d be most interested in learning of other’s efforts
to track project/user time.
John Eckmann
Informatics Core
General Clinical
405.271.4272, 42711