Canadian Stroke Network Partners with Trialstat to Create Specialized Web-Based Registry of Stroke Patients
Registry to Collect and Manage Data on Canadian Stroke Patients. Ottowa, ON (PRWEB) May 30, 2007 -- TrialStat Corporation, a clinical data management on demand company, today announced that the Ottawa-based Canadian Stroke Network (CSN) is using ClinicalAnalytics 4.0™ (CA), the company's on demand electronic data capture (EDC) platform, for a Web-based registry of Canadian stroke patients. CSN selected TrialStat's CA because of its ability to evolve with the changing research requirements of the national registry. In addition, CA provides research staff with an easy-to-use interface that allows users to extract and enter data simply and quickly. Called SPIRIT (Stroke Performance Indicators for Reporting, Improvement & Translation Project), the online registry enables healthcare professionals at different research sites to collect data on stroke to help improve the prevention, treatment and recovery for 50,000 Canadians who suffer a stroke every year. Largely preventable and treatable, stroke is one of the country's biggest public health issues and a leading cause of adult disability. The collected data will also allow clinicians and hospital administrators to have a better understanding of the diagnosis and the management of stroke and to improve care and education for future stroke patients and their families. "CA provides us with a platform from which to expand and enhance the registry of the Canadian Stroke Network," said Dr. Kevin Willis, Acting Executive Director of the Canadian Stroke Network. "The feedback we have received from research staff has been positive. CA provides an easy-to-use interface that pulls information in a variety of different statistical and graphical formats." "Our partnership with the Canadian Stroke Network will accelerate the collection and management of important research data for the organization's registry," said Jonathan Barker, President and CEO, TrialStat. "We are tremendously pleased to be supporting a national registry that will benefit research professionals and ultimately stroke patients themselves." Dr. Patrice Lindsay, Performance and Standards specialist with the Canadian Stroke Network, said that TrialStat allowed CSN to be actively involved in the ongoing development of the registry tool and, in the end, created "something that we can easily build on. The tool easily adapts and grows with us without being overly complicated," she said. Chelsea Hellings, SPIRIT project manager, said the response from healthcare sites using SPIRIT has been extremely positive. "A lot of the feedback I have received has been that the Web-based registry is clear and easy to use." ClinicalAnalytics (CA) 4.0, TrialStat's on demand EDC solution, delivers speed, performance and a host of industry-leading capabilities to give customers the power and flexibility they need to get their clinical trials started quickly and cost effectively. CA 4.0 integrates the web and flexible data capture technologies, including image-based forms and handheld devices. It is the first EDC platform to allow all aspects of the study to be configured, deployed and managed through a browser-based interface, which enables customers to deploy studies faster than traditional EDC software. About Trialstat:
TrialStat Corporation is a privately held company that delivers clinical data management on demand by combining the company's software as a service products for electronic data capture and systematic reviews with its full suite of data management services. CA 4.0 is a robust and scaleable clinical EDC on demand solution used by leading clinical research organizations. SRS 4.0™ automates systematic reviews using real-time collaboration and management tools to achieve transparent, auditable and reproducible results quickly and cost-effectively. ESRNexus™ (www.esrnexus.com) is the most comprehensive Web-based search engine for evidence-based reference literature. For more information, please visit us at www.trialstat.com. About The Canadian Stroke Network:
The Canadian Stroke Network includes more than 100 of Canada's leading scientists and clinicians from 24 universities who work collaboratively on various aspects of stroke. The Network, which is headquartered at the University of Ottawa, also includes partners from industry, the non-profit sector, provincial and federal governments. The Canadian Stroke Network, one of Canada's Networks of Centres of Excellence, is committed to reducing the physical, social and economic impact of stroke on the lives of individual Canadians and on society as a whole. ClinicalAnalytics 4.0, SRS 4.0 and ESRNexus are registered trademarks of TrialStat Corporation. For media inquiries, please contact:
Erin Fitzgerald
TrialStat Corporation
613-741-9909 ext 165
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