University of Alberta Selects OpenClinica Enterprise for Women and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI)

(Cambridge, Massachusetts) December 6th, 2007 — Akaza Research announces it has contracted with the University of Alberta to provide OpenClinica implementation and support to the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI). WCHRI is a joint effort between the University of Alberta and Canada’s Capital Health to create a collaborative research environment to advance the discovery of new knowledge in women and children's health.

Dr. Lawrence Richer, MD, a University of Alberta clinical researcher in pediatric neurology, sums up of the benefits of OpenClinica this way: "OpenClinica gives WCHRI a proven, 'out-of-the-box' technology foundation upon which to develop additional modules and features. The combination of open source software plus targeted custom software development offers us the opportunity to meet the unique needs of collaborative clinical research in Canada without the risk, expense, and time of developing a system from scratch. The open source licensing approach will ensure that our enhancements will be freely available to disseminate to other researchers within Canada and worldwide."

OpenClinica Enterprise provides a fully supported version of OpenClinica, the popular clinical research management software. With OpenClinica Enterprise, a research institution can maintain its independence from a software vendor while obtaining full support for a modern, robust clinical research technology platform.

About the Women and Children's Health Research Institute

The Women and Children's Health Research Institute (WCHRI) is a collaboration between the University of Alberta and Capital Health. WCHRI provides a research environment to encourage and stimulate innovative world-class interdisciplinary research with the sincere belief that women and children present distinct and unique research challenges. The WCHRI strives to provide excellence in translational, clinical, population health, health service, and community-based research to ultimately improve health and quality of life of women and children. For more information about WCHRI see http://www.wchri.med.ualberta.ca/Home/index.cfm.

About OpenClinica®

OpenClinica is open source web-based electronic data capture software for clinical research. It facilitates protocol configuration, design of case report forms, clinical data capture, and study/data management. OpenClinica supports HIPAA and 21 CFR Part 11 guidelines and is designed as a lightweight, standards-based, extensible, and modular platform. The current production release of OpenClinica is version 2.0.1. All versions of OpenClinica are available for download at www.OpenClinica.org.

About Akaza Research®

Akaza Research, the leading provider of open source clinical trial software, is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Akaza has developed and commercialized OpenClinica, the preeminent open source clinical trial data capture and management software platform. Akaza brings Open Source Software (OSS) into the mainstream of the clinical research enterprise by making robust, flexible, standards-based systems accessible for private and public research. Akaza Research provides OpenClinica support, training, and consulting services to its customers worldwide. See www.akazaresearch.com.

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