“mPower”-ing Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

Ray Dorsey, M.D., one of 3000 researchers at URMC working on cures, discusses his research involving a smartphone application that helps assess symptoms of Parkinson’s disease patients from the comfort of their own homes.

REDCap Tip of the Month: Leveraging the Codebook

REDCap projects often have multiple stakeholders, each with a different area of interest for the project and with varying REDCap proficiencies. Read on to find out how to leverage REDCap's Codebook to allow stakeholders to quickly view and follow a variable name, field label, branching logic, and field attributes for each and every variable in your project.

RocHackHealth: A Path Toward New Solutions to Health Care Issues

The University of Rochester CTSI hosted a health care data hackathon, called RocHackHealth, April 8-10. Teams of “hactivists” competed to come up with innovative big data solutions to three issues currently facing the US health care system.

REDCap Tip of the Month: Adding Confirmation Emails in REDCap

Have you ever wished REDCap could automatically send a confirmation email whenever a respondent completes your survey?  A recent upgrade to REDCap now allows you to do just that. Read on to find out how!

Get More Out of Your CTSI Grant Applications

The CTSI is implementing a new forum this May to help junior investigators become independently funded. In addition, several “funding pathways” will be introduced that set a framework for investigators to revise their scientific proposals for KL2 Mentored Career Development and CTSI Pilot awards into proposals for K or R21 awards from the National Institutes of Health.