OpenClinica Enterprise Selected for the Abuja Heart Study

(Cambridge, MA) April 29, 2009 - OpenClinica Enterprise has been selected as the clinical data capture and management solution for the Abuja Heart Study, a long-term cardiovascular study involving up to 10,000 patients from multiple sites across Nigeria.

Collaborators on the study include the Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Byrne Healthcare, Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria, and Healthsystem Plus.

Recent statistics have shown that cardiovascular diseases will become the leading cause of death in developing countries within the next 10 to 15 years. However, data is not yet available to determine the magnitude and social burden of the disease or the distribution within the population of many countries, including Nigeria.

In many ways analogous to the well-known Framingham Heart Study, the Abuja Heart Study will help scientists understand the role socio-cultural and hereditary factors play in a specific population in order to adopt targeted policies for prevention and control.

"This study has some specific requirements for its electronic data capture and data management needs," said Study Director, Uchenna Onyeachom. "We require a lightweight, standards-based, and regulatory compliant system that can function well in resource constrained settings and is intuitive to remote users with minimal training. The flexible OpenClinica technology and professional open source approach from Akaza provide us with these benefits and give us the necessary assurance that many years from now our study will still be run with robust and well-supported software."

Fore more information about The Abuja Heart Study, see http://abujaheartstudy.org.

About OpenClinica®

OpenClinica is open source, web-based clinical trials software for electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM). OpenClinica facilitates data collection via electronic case report forms (eCRFs), and provides tools for data management and productive monitoring of clinical trials. OpenClinica supports leading CDISC standards and is designed to be compliant with industry and government regulations and guidelines such as 21 CFR Part 11, GCP, and HIPAA. OpenClinica is professionally supported by Akaza Research and has a worldwide open source community of over 6,000 users and developers. All versions of OpenClinica are freely available for download and use from http://www.openclinica.org.

About Healthsystem Plus®

Healthsystem Plus is a private non-profit international health organization. The organization focuses on developing programs that strengthen health systems and close gaps in healthcare disparities. Healthsystem Plus collaborates with policy makers academic institutions around the world for an effective and sustainable health programs. For more information see http://www.healthsystemplus.org.

About Akaza Research

Akaza Research provides professional open source software for clinical trials. The company's flagship product, OpenClinica, provides electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM) capabilities for clinical research. By bringing open source software into the mainstream of clinical research, Akaza is able to provide a cost effective technology solution that is more flexible and transparent than proprietary, closed systems. Akaza Research provides a full spectrum of OpenClinica-related products and services to a worldwide customer base through its OpenClinica Enterprise solution. For more information about Akaza Research, see http://www.akazaresearch.com.

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