Overview of IT development at the
Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility
PURPOSE OF TALK for MVM:
“We hope this will provide an opportunity to
discover different approaches to solving
problems, and to help the University
understand what compute facilities MVM
requires”
Elizabeth McDowell
CRF IT Manager
Dickon Jackson
CRF IT Developer
Overview
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What is the Clinical Research Facility (CRF)?
Our systems development
Problems & solutions
Other projects
What is the Clinical Research Facility (CRF)
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We provide state-of-the-art facilities for investigators
undertaking Clinical Research studies
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Includes clinical, laboratory and specialised technical
support.
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www.wtcrf.ed.ac.uk
IT Development Overview
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The WTCRF IT area develops administration
software required to support the CRF processes.
To date, systems development include:
– Study Manager
– Course Manager
– Scheduling system
ASP.NET, C# and MS SQL server.
Examples
Problems & Solutions
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Database hosting – used university service for
approx. 3 years but needed to upgrade to SQL 2005
and have greater access
Certificates – purchased from SSL247 rather than
via JANET. Fast and cost effective.
Web application hosting – used university service
but required full access to configure sites so
purchased own server.
Other Projects
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CRISP project
Document Management – Sharepoint
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Transferring website
Training SOPs
Study documents, sharing with NHS R&D
Clinical Research Imaging Centre (CRIC)
Data storage
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Large amount of off-site storage required –
Purchased 2TB from MVM, very successful
CRIC requirements – Approximately 40 TB. Costing
and looking at options.
Working with the NHS
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Linking to patient data
Server out of date, software out of date
Network speed 100MB/s upgrading to 1GB in
December 2008
Adverse to change in Lothian, but differs by region