The OnCore Integration Framework

Over the last decade, the amount of data generated through the conduct of clinical trials has exponentially increased. Also, during this time, electronic medical record and laboratory systems have proliferated. This means that increasingly more data is being handled by research centers and that more data exists in electronic format at their associated hospitals. However, many of these systems remain isolated or only nominally linked to other systems.

Today, there remains ample opportunity for organizations to leverage their existing investments in technology to the benefit of their research centers by integrating these diverse systems. Through integration, centers eliminate costs associated with duplicate data entry, errors associated with manual transcription, and the inherent latency of a manual process.

However, the typical integration project of today leaves much to be desired. With customized integration projects, each link created between two systems is hand-crafted at considerable cost. Customized solutions are time and effort intensive. And, when they are complete, they cannot be leveraged to create the next link.