BC|CLIN has been designed to provide solutions to the biggest challenges in collecting and managing of clinical data.
| Challenge |
Solution |
| Developing custom tools for clinical data entry might become very expensive. |
BC|CLIN provides tools to custom design the questionnaires in an electronic format, enabling a direct start for online data collection. |
| Clinical data is often collected in multiple locations. Gathering data securely to one location can be difficult. |
BC|CLIN saves research data automatically into one central location, using secure internet protocols, like encryption. |
| For the PI, it can be challenging to follow, how data collection proceeds. |
With BC|CLIN, it is possible to easily get reports on the proceedings and status of the data collection. |
| Each researcher is interested in only a certain subset of the data. Filtering this information from the whole collection may be difficult. |
Based on access permissions of each user, BC|CLIN provides an interface for running complex queries to the main dataset, resulting in an always up-to-date subset of the data fulfilling search criteria. |
| Each researcher wants to analyze the clinical data using different tools. |
BC|CLIN provides data conversion tools, making it possible to export data directly to multiple statistical analysis tools and spreadsheet programs. |
| Transferring already collected clinical data to a new database might be challenging. |
BC|CLIN includes a Data Upload Wizard tool, which allows for uploading data in various formats. |
| Mistakes and typing errors may occur during data entry process. |
BC|CLIN can be customized to include various data checking functions, to minimize human error in the data collection stage. |
| Tracking data history is sometimes impossible. |
BC|CLIN comes with a full log-file functionality, making it possible to trace the change history of each entry. In addition, it is possible to add your own comments to each change made. |