VISTA Studies Features
Security and Privacy
VISTA Studies meets your IRBs requirements for
security and privacy by using safeguards such as unique
identification of authorized users, password-controlled
access to data, data transmission via a secure website
link (HTTPS/SSL) and audit controls of data. A
professionally managed Internet Service provider hosts
VISTA Studies and provides firewall protection,
antivirus software, automatic backups, and secured,
restricted access to facilities. VISTA Studies complies
with HIPAA privacy rules and the principles of the
EU-US Safe Harbor Program.
Protocol Scheduler for Multi-Questionnaire, Multi-Year Studies
VISTA Studies handles your multi-user, multi-site,
multi-year study protocols with ease. VISTA Studies
incorporates your study protocol and will determine the
timing, display duration and administrative frequency
for each questionnaire of your study. Each time a
subject logs into VISTA Studies a list of
questionnaires that are currently due for completion
are presented. VISTA Studies updates these
questionnaires based on the study timeline or other
conditions in the study protocol. You can make
adjustments to a particular subject’s
questionnaire schedule if there is a variable wash out
period from drug dosing or to accommodate a
subject’s vacation. VISTA Studies reports to the
study coordinator the subjects and questionnaires that
are past due according to the study protocol.
Multi-User, Multi-Site Study Portal
VISTA Studies allows you to host multiple studies or
collect data from multiple centers from a single study
portal. The study portal serves as a centralized,
single point of access for you and your research staff
to gain access to study information. You can assign
role-based access by study or by research site/center
assuring that only authorized users gain access to the
subject data and reports for a particular study or
site.
Automatic Data Validation
VISTA Studies improves data validity by
automatically detecting illegal/out-of-range data
entry, or unanswered questions. Upon submitting a
questionnaire the screen displays all data that is
incomplete, missing, or out of range and prompts the
subjects to correct responses and complete
questions.
Communication Management System
VISTA Studies communication management system allows
you to stay in touch with your subjects from start to
finish of the research study. Use FAQs to answers
subjects’ questions and keep them informed. Use
online forums to foster collaboration between you and
your subjects. You can easily set up customized emails
that are sent at set schedules to subjects based on
where they are in the study protocol, e.g. send
scheduled emails to your subjects to invite them to
participate in a study, to remind them to fill out
scheduled questionnaires and to inform them that
they’ve completed the study.
Recruitment
VISTA Studies improves the efficiency of your
research subject recruitment process. As you advertise
for subjects via newspaper ads, TV announcements or
email campaigns direct prospective subjects to your
customized recruitment website where you can provide
study information, eligibility screening
questionnaires, HIPAA information and on-line consent
forms.
Real-Time Data Access
View your study data in real-time as soon as
subjects submit their questionnaires. Easily drill down
to the individual response level to see the details of
particular subject’s response. Create filters
based on multiple criteria to see patterns or trends in
your data.
On-Demand Reports
With the click of a button you can view on-demand
reports giving you up-to-the-minute information on your
study. View reports of subject’s login activity.
Quickly see reports on what questionnaires subjects
have completed or not completed.
Data Export
With the click of a button you can download data in
multiple formats, including Excel and XML. You can
export data for all questionnaires and all users over
the entire study or by individual questionnaire,
individual subject, over a duration of time.
SmartPhone Survey Forms
VISTA Studies SmartPhone forms are ideal for
attitudinal, behavioral, or other research studies
where you need subjects to enter data at a specific
time or as an event occurs. Eliminate subject
recall bias and get the most accurate real-time
data possible by using VISTA Studies SmartPhone forms.
Additionally, VISTA Studies SmartPhone forms keeps
your data coming in if subjects are on vacation or
away from their computers. Don’t make your subjects
be dependant on accessing a computer to enter their
data. VISTA Studies SmartPhone forms is a convenient,
quick and easy way for them to enter their data anytime,
anywhere.