Data Collection

University of Hawaii/Harvard University

The MacArthur Foundation funded a national model program for adolescent mental health in 2005, whose primary focus is on using clinical trials to determine which of 3 competing approaches to behavior health therapy is most efficacious and reliable. This program is based at the University of Hawaii and Harvard University.

Key Business Challenge:

• Develop a Web-based information system for a clinical trials program
• Rapidly deliver a new clinical trials application by leveraging Web survey tools
• Develop a custom solution using tolls TWJ had previously developed
• Protect the sensitive nature of the collected data

The Solution

Using TWJ’s Web-based survey tool as its foundation, a comprehensive behavioral health clinical trials application was delivered to the MacArthur Clinical Treatment Program within 6 months. This application is now the core operational software for the program, handling data instrument creation, data collection and validation, operational work flow, and clinical reporting and analysis. It includes a sophisticated data privileging system to insure that confidential and otherwise sensitive clinical data can only be viewed by the appropriate program participants.