Octave Community

Achieving Excellence in Clinical and Translational Research Operations

Leveraging the success of the Onsemble® community, which caters to the cancer clinical research community, the new Octave community will offer the same sorts of resources to its members from multi-disciplinary research organizations. The OnCore people provide these resources with a focus on networking, advocacy, and learning opportunities for people interested in operational excellence in clinical research.

The Octave Community

oc•tave: an harmonic combination.

Octave™ is a community of people who are committed to excellence in clinical and translational research operations in the multidisciplinary setting. Octave members share best practices, contribute to an ever-growing knowledge base, and provide input into OnCore's evolution.

ODEAN - The Oncore Developer & Adopter Network

This group of innovators are working together and with The OnCore People to extend and improve the informatics infrastructures of their organizations. Early work has focused on the desire to be able to share resources for OnCore. Projects in this area include sharing electronic case report forms and custom reports.

Additionally, this collaborative spirit is being carried over into complementary technologies. Examples of this include research centers addressing their local needs by adopting home-grown or third-party tools to leverage information from the OnCore database. The OnCore Developer and Adopter Network (ODEAN) provides a formal environment for developers to share their innovations with their colleagues at other institutions.

In support of ODEAN initiatives, a ListServ and other resources are available.

ODEAN is pronounced (O•day•on). It is a play on "Odeon," a building used for musical performances in ancient Greece.