This specialized team supports the University of Miami community by providing systems, facilities and resources to facilitate the conduct and administration of research, including:
Providing process improvement assistance for research administration and related areas
Configuring research application infrastructure to support administrative operations
Capturing process and information requirements from end-users and stakeholders
Developing training materials and end-user training on deployed functionality
Offering end-user support as needed
Tracking outcomes to improvement efforts
Maintaining quality assurance and data integrity
The Research IT unit is responsible for:
Strategic planning, involving technology to achieve research enterprise goals
Process/Systems Analysis, Requirements Gathering, and Technology Evaluation
Information management including optimization of the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information
Research and Clinical Informatics
Software Development, Maintenance, Configuration, Documentation, QA, and Testing
Research system-to-system interfacing, integration, and workflows
End-user support
For Research IT help: The help desk is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The expansion of IBISResearch includes a new UDisclose system, which is live as of January, 2022. The UDisclose system is also known as the IBISResearch - COI system.
The Velos eResarch Clinical Trials Management Software provides clinical researchers and study staff with user-friendly technology infrastructure for managing studies, tracking subjects, and facilitating analysis, while maintaining the privacy and safety of participants.
The Employee Compensation Compliance (ECC) system is designed to help comply with the provisions of the University of Miami's Effort Reporting policy, federal policy and other relevant agency policies that govern charging an individual's effort to sponsored projects.
The StafaCT System is used to manage the processing and storage of blood, cellular therapy , tissue and organ products and is governed by the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISTB) and follows the ISBT 128 Standard.