About REDCap

What is REDCap?

REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure web application for building and managing surveys and databases online. While REDCap can be used to collect virtually any type of data, it was designed to support research.

REDCap allows you to collect, store, organize, report, clean, and export data for analysis.

If you are not familiar with REDCap you may be interested in the following short videos:

Brief Overview of REDCap (5 mins) Detailed Overview of REDCap (14 mins)
Portrait of Handsome Dan with REDCap
REDCap Consortium

News & Highlights 

REDCap at Yale/YNHH

There are several REDCap systems available to you.  There are 4 servers, two at Yale University and two at Yale New Haven Health (YNHH), which serve different purposes.  

 

Server 

Location

System

Name

URL

Regulatory 

Compliance

Specialization

Yale

 REDCap I

redcap.med.yale.edu 

(redirect- poa-redcap)

HIPAA, GDPR

International 

University research

Yale

 REDCap II redcap.research.yale.edu 

HIPAA, GDPR

  

YNHH

 Standard REDCap redcapynh.ynhh.org

HIPAA

 EPIC/CDIS Integration

YNHH

 21 Part 11 Validated REDCap redcapynh-p11.ynhh.org 

HIPAA,    21 Part 11

 Research under an IND/IDE

Yale University Servers: To access and use REDCap on the Yale Servers, you need a valid Yale NetID.   The Principal Investigator, i.e. the Project-Owner, must be a Yale University faculty, staff, or student.

Yale New Haven Health (YNHH) Servers:  To access and use YNHH servers,  you need a Yale NetID or a YNHH User ID.  The Principal Investigator, i.e. the Project-Owner, must be a Yale faculty, staff, or student or YNHH employee. 

Vanderbilt Consortium

Developed at Vanderbilt in 2004 by Paul A. Harris and colleagues, and later supported by the National Center for the Advancement of Translational Sciences (NCATS) Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program, REDCap was initially built to support research studies and operations.  REDCap is currently used by millions of people at non-profit and academic centers around the world for research, quality improvement, clinical applications, health services management, training, education and more.

REDCap is accessible through an internet connection with data stored on a secure server within the Yale or Yale New Haven Health (YNHH) environment. You can work on it using a desktop, laptop or mobile device.

Data can be collected through direct data entry, a survey function, or automated data import. Data can be exported in common formats including statistical packages (SPSS, SAS, Stata and R), CSV, Excel, and CDISC ODM.

In situations where the internet is not available, you can collect data using the REDCap Mobile App.* The REDCap Mobile App allows you to collect and temporarily store data offline on an iOS (iPhone/iPad) or Android device and upload it onto the server once an internet connection is available.

*Note: REDCap Mobile App not available on all Yale/YNHH servers.

REDCap features continue to evolve with each new upgrade.  Please note that the features below may not be available in all Yale/YNHH systems.  The Data System Triage team can help determine which is best suited to your study design.

  • Data Access Groups 
  • Customizable dashboards with dynamic content
  • Field validation 
  • eConsent
  • Contact list for survey respondents including:
    • automatic survey invitation 
    • survey-specific email invitation fieldsREDCap Mobile App tool to capture data offline
  • Import data collection forms from a library of validated instruments including PROMIS© and Neuro-QoT Computerized Adaptive Tests (CAT)
  • Audit trails with field-level tracking 
  • Automated export procedures to Excel/CSV, PDF, and common statistical packages (SPSS, SAS, R)
  • File upload fields
  • Action tags to perform functions 
  •  Ontologies for data field choices
  • Built-in project calendar
  • A randomization module 
  • A scheduling module 
  • Integration with Mosio for text messaging
  •  Special characters and foreign language options (e.g. Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese)
  • Ad hoc reporting tools