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
Research Center
405.271.4272,
42711