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CHICAGO -- (Business Wire)
Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business
consulting services, today announced that Sanford Health, the nation’s
largest rural non-profit healthcare system, has deployed its Click®
Portal software to automate conflict of interest disclosures
required for research. Sanford chose the new Click software solution in
part to help comply with the new federal rules governing conflict of
interest (COI).
“To meet the new rules while growing our research programs across
multiple campuses in several states, we needed to facilitate the
submission of accurate, complete disclosures,” said Arlyn Broekhuis,
chief information officer, Sanford Health. “Working with Huron’s Click
Portal implementation team, we were able to fully automate COI
reporting and management processes in two and a half months.”
The new federal COI rules issued by the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services and administered by the National Institutes of Health
went into effect in August 2012. The rules cover a wide range of areas
which are directly addressed by Huron’s Click Portal software.
For example, the new rules require that:
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Institutions must take full responsibility for monitoring
sub-recipients of research grants,
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Disclosures should be posted to a public website or available in
writing within five days of the request,
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COI training occurs prior to research and every four years after, and
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Management plans for those reporting financial COI are mandatory, if
the interest is significant and related to their research.
“In each of these examples, our software eliminates process roadblocks
such as lengthy turnaround times, interoffice delays, duplicate data
entry, and information loss,” said Nick
Stier, managing director, Huron
Education. “Sub-recipient and management plan monitoring
capabilities are also built into the solution. The speed with which we
were able to launch the Sanford system is a testament to the clarity of
their stated needs, outstanding teamwork demonstrated throughout the
project, and a flexible product that has been employed on more than 35
different COI implementations.”
Sanford Health and many other leading research institutions use Huron’s
Click Portal platform to automate a wide range of administrative and
compliance processes, including those associated with Institutional
Review Board (IRB), Institutional
Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), Institutional Biosafety
Committee (IBC), COI,
Grants,
and Clinical
Trials.
About Sanford Health
Sanford Health is an integrated health system headquartered in the
Dakotas and is now the largest, rural, not-for-profit health care system
in the nation with locations in 126 communities in eight states. In
addition, Sanford Health is in the process of developing international
clinics in Ireland, Ghana, Israel and Mexico. Sanford Health includes 35
hospitals, 140 clinic locations and 1,200 physicians in 70 specialty
areas of medicine. With more than 25,000 employees, Sanford Health is
the largest employer in North and South Dakota. For more information,
please visit sanfordhealth.org.
About Click, a Huron Solution
Huron's Click®
Portal software has been developed to meet the needs of leading
academic medical centers and research institutions throughout North
America. Click solutions are deployed by consulting experts from Huron
Education working in conjunction with local client teams.
Configurable applications for grants administration, research
compliance, and clinical trials efficiently manage the business of
research by combining information technology with industry best
practices. Huron Education’s professionals have worked with more than 90
of the top 100 research universities in the U.S. More information can be
found at www.huronconsultinggroup.com/click
or follow us on Twitter: @Huron.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve
performance, comply with complex regulations, reduce costs, recover from
distress, leverage technology and stimulate growth. The Company teams
with its clients to deliver sustainable and measurable results. Huron
provides services to a wide variety of both financially sound and
distressed organizations, including healthcare organizations, Fortune
500 companies, leading academic institutions, medium-sized businesses
and the law firms that represent these various organizations. Learn more
at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.
Contacts:
Huron Consulting Group
Jennifer Frost Hennagir
312-880-3260
jfrost-hennagir@huronconsultinggroup.com
Source: Huron Consulting Group