Product Overview
REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. It has many features, including:
- Online or offline project design
Online using the Online Designer or offline using a “data dictionary” template in Microsoft Excel that can be uploaded later into REDCap. - Availability
Software is available at no cost for REDCap Consortium Partners. - Secure and web-based
Input data or build an online survey or database from anywhere in the world over a secure web connection with authentication and data logging. - Fast and flexible
Conception to production-level database or survey in less than one day.
Deployment
- Web based
- Cloud Hosted
Pricing
- Subscription
- License Fee
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Multi-site access
REDCap databases/surveys can be used by researchers from multiple sites and institutions.
Autonomous utilization
Research groups have complete autonomy and control to add new users.
Fully customizable
You are in total control of shaping your database or survey.
Audit trails
For tracking data manipulation and user activity.
Automated export procedures
For seamless data downloads to Excel, PDF, and common statistical packages (SPSS, SAS, Stata, R).
About the company
REDCap was created in 2004 at Vanderbilt University. It originally supported a small group of clinical researchers who needed a secure data collection tool that met HIPAA compliance standards. REDCap quickly became their go-to method for supporting both single and multi-site research studies.
REDCap’s developers firmly believed that nobody could know the research as well as the researcher. So a user-friendly web-based interface was introduced to put the researchers in total control of their work. No background knowledge or technical experience was needed to use REDCap; researchers could directly manage their own projects whenever and however they wished, through any browser on any device.