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University of Florida Shands Cancer Center Achieves Goal and Goes Live with OnCore in Under Four Months

MADISON, Wis. (October 1, 2009) — The University of Florida Shands Cancer Center (UFSCC) set an aggressive timeline for their implementation of a new clinical research management system and, in just over three months, they met it. Back in June, the cancer clinical trials office began migrating data from their legacy system and rolling-out the OnCore system for clinical research management (OnCore-CRM). On Wednesday, September 23rd, the new OnCore users celebrated the go live of the new system with cake.

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"This was the best experience in bringing a database up so quickly and smoothly," wrote Tracy Lynn, from the UFSCC Clinical Trials Office who was on the implementation team for the project.

In PercipEnz's 10-year history, this project represented the second-fastest implementation among those involving data migration, which, in this case, required moving data out of a Velos eResearch database into the OnCore system.

Leading the project to implement the new system, Giselle Moore-Higgs, Assistant Director of Clinical Trials at UFSCC, arranged resources to make the transition a priority throughout the summer in order to meet their September deadline. The assembled team, headed by Joe Stokes, RN, manager of Bone Marrow Transplant at Shands, included Crissy Greene, Manager of Information Services, and Tracy Lynn, Manager of the CTO Regulatory Office.

"Definitely, the teamwork and focus on the Shands side was critical to the success of this project" said Gopi Potnuru, Director of Software Development at PercipEnz." It was a pleasure to work with Joe and his team."

"We were very fortunate to have three staff members who had the clinical, regulatory, and computer knowledge needed to make this happen. Their dedication to this huge project along with the professionalism and team effort from PercipEnz helped us meet our tight deadline," said Moore-Higgs.

Now that the Clinical Trials Office has rolled-out the system, the cancer center will begin reaching-out to other research departments doing oncology trials throughout the university.

"We hope that OnCore will help us to expand the clinical trials program by allowing us to collaborate across the UF campus," said Moore-Higgs.

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