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CTDataHub: An Empowering Solution for Health Data Workers in Oncology Clinical Trials

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Clinical Research Coordinators (CRC) are the backbone of clinical trials, conducting extensive data work to support the clinical research team. Existing clinical systems, optimized for document management rather than clinical research, offer limited capabilities to support the CRCs’ workflow, making data retrieval laborious and error-prone. CTDataHub is an information system designed through participatory design with the CRCs at a large academic medical center to address these challenges and empower them as data workers. This study discusses the impact that CTDataHub had on the CRCs’ data management experience based on the preliminary findings from surveys and group interviews.

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  2. clinical trial
  3. data work
  4. electronic health records
  5. future of work
  6. health
  7. health information system
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