INFORMATION ACCESS, CONTROL & SECURITY | PROCESS MANAGEMENT | PURPOSE BUILT | Why Others Fall Short | |||||
Document Management | Information Tracking & Reporting | Communication | Process Management | Meeting Management | Engineered for Oversight | |||
INFORMATION ACCESS, CONTROL & SECURITY | Software design, as well as processes provide multiple layers of protection and security for unblinded data, including separate workspaces for blinded & unblinded teams & role based restrictions. | ✓ | Protection based on assignment of roles. | |||||
Document Storage via a "Smart Library" for all documents used by DMC team over life of study. Document versions easily viewed, managed, controlled & audited. | ✓ | Document management limited to single, simple, linear process of attaching documents to meetings. | ||||||
Document organization optimized for real world use with multi-functional document organization, Files can be found from tags, folders, meetings, tasks, full text search or any/all of the above combined. | ✓ | Documents are organized into folders, which can be labeled as tasks or meetings, which is problematic for updating & versioning. | ||||||
Integrations with DocuSign, My SIgnature Book for highest level complete E-signature capability | ✓ | Appears not to be available. | ||||||
Live editing, track changes, shared comments & notes, document locking, Office 365 integration. | ✓ | Appears not to be available. | ||||||
Complete auditing features cover documents, user activity and meetings | ✓ | Only document and user auditing available | ||||||
Global reporting to see status of activities across all workspaces. Study & user level activity reporting allows for management of workloads. | ✓ | Appears to be limited in functionality especially, across more than one study. | ||||||
All tasks and meetings are viewable in a global calendar. Filter by status, single study or multiple studies Syncs with other calendar software (google, office 365, apple ical, & iCAL standard ). | ✓ | Appears to be limited in functionality especially, across more than one study. | ||||||
Cross Study Smart Dashboards. Single access point to all your studies. | ✓ | Appears to be limited in functionality especially, across more than one study. | ||||||
Message with an individual, one-one, in a group chat or on a Task Channel, privately and securely within or across studies. | ✓ | Appears to be limited in functionality especially, across more than one study. | ||||||
Host video conferences inside the platform (Zoom comes free, or simply integrate another video conference platform). Easily call team members through the platform. | ✓ | Not available | ||||||
PROCESS MANAGEMENT | Easily and quickly design, control & automate any critical process without the need for vendor configured setup, or modification allows for speed to startup and respond to sponsor change requirements. | ✓ | Require vendor "customization"/"programming" for setup, etc., making it difficult & slow to change/edit for sponsor/study requirements. | |||||
Template workflows can be used as is, or modified; easily copied into studies as needed new studies for rapid startup | ✓ | Require vendor "customization"/"programming" for setup, etc., making it difficult & slow to change/edit for sponsor/study requirements. | ||||||
Workflow Designer allows you to build and modify your own workflows. | ✓ | Not available | ||||||
Test your workflows prior to rolling them out to ensure compliance, access and accuracy . | ✓ | Not available | ||||||
Workflow progress reports gives you the ability to look at a study's progress helping avoid bottlenecks. View a single study or across multiple studies. | ✓ | Not Available | ||||||
Robust notification center reminding users via text or email of communications, tasks & meetings with administrative control. | ✓ | Lack administrative control limits ability to drive process and timing. | ||||||
Integrated meeting features support seamless video conferencing, agenda templates, document attachments, voting tools, customizable surveys, recording of minutes; no need for outside platforms to handle virtual meetings & scheduling. | ✓ | Meetings are handled as folders with predefined file lists. Requires using outside platforms to handle virtual meetings & scheduling. Can also create problems with document versioning. | ||||||
Create and store your templates for future use. Easy in-app collaboration, editing, sharing, approvals. | ✓ | Handled as word document. Collaboration, sharing, and approval requires everyone downloading, editing, re-uploading. | ||||||
Flexible minutes recording options, including collaboration, editing, review, approval and signatures directly in the system;. | ✓ | Handled as word document. Collaboration, sharing, and approval requires everyone downloading, editing, re-uploading. | ||||||
Record attendance directly in meeting; automatically recorded in meeting minutes. | ✓ | Not Available | ||||||
Zoom comes free with platform, or simply integrate another platform. | ✓ | Not available | ||||||
Integrate work or personal calendar with one-way sync to all relevant studies. | ✓ | Not available | ||||||
PURPOSE BUILT | Simple, clean, intuitive user interface designed for the episodic user | ✓ | Appears to be designed for the highly technical, regular user | |||||
Efficiency, standardization & risk reduction features solves actual information access, process management and reporting challenges of independent governance bodies and their administrators. | ✓ | Limited in functionality especially across more than one study | ||||||
Built for independent oversight/governance data security, process management & reporting by experts with decades of governance, regulatory, and healthcare industry expertise. | ✓ | Other platforms are grounded in data collection and endpoint adjudication activities & processes which are focused on data collection and collaboration across less specific, less controlled groups. |