Secure Collaborative Portals

While the term "portal" itself is not new, it is also not clearly defined within the marketplace. In general, portals provide a personalized single point of access to applications, content, processes and services and are designed to enhance operational efficiencies and collaboration through a secure Web interface.

Adding to their complexity is the fact that nearly every e-business or Web based project needs a secure infrastructure for hosting Web-based Applications. There are several common challenges that organizations face when implementing these applications. First, the site needs to provide a means of determining who is accessing the site (authentication). Second, the site needs the capability to permit or deny access to resources based on the policies and users/groups that access the resources (authorization). Third, users desire to only log on once for access to applications to which they have been granted access (single sign-on).

Secure portals address the issues of authentication, authorization and single sign-on, which are needed when the information is of a sensitive nature. Organizations that invest in our secure portal solutions, get a proven production-ready application that can dramatically accelerate their workflow efficiencies and collaborative efforts for better decision-making and improved communications.

TII provides a secure, centralized source of information for efficient management of your clinical studies and collaborative efforts. Leveraging the TII portal architecture, TII can develop customized, branded Web portals for any size project or study, provide program management utilities, study information, status reports, document repository and a single point of access to project or study resources. Role-based access can be implemented to further customize the experience. Our developers are skilled at adding unique functionality per the needs of each project. TII supports timely and efficient management and communications for your clinical studies by combining key functional elements such as:

• Project team communications - contact information, e-mail links for project team members, instant messaging, meeting calendars, message boards
• Document repository - key project documents such as protocols, CRFs, review guidelines and relevant sections of the master action plan can be housed in one location
• Project status reports - reports from our clinical trial management system, data management reports, pharmacovigilance reports, as well as ad hoc or customized reports developed by the project team to your specifications can be accessed via the web
• Deliverables - draft electronic deliverables such as biostatistics tables and listings and medical/regulatory reports, with capability for electronic data and file transfers
• Administrative information - contracts, SOPs and other documents supporting the sponsor study
• Special features - customized capabilities, such as limited access to tools (remote data access, limited access to sites/investigators for study information or links to other relevant Web resources)