Chunk #6 — Building and Supporting the REDCap Consortium: A Phased Approach — Phase 1: Developing REDCap at Vanderbilt University (1 site: ~ 2004–2005)
export module, user rights functionality, and extensive data and operations logging necessary for HIPAA compliance. The REDCap system data architecture was originally flat, using a set of five replicable database tables for each project as previously described (for scalability, we later moved to an entity-attribute-value data model utilizing global tables in a single MySQL database) [26]. Local support at the time included only the primary faculty lead who served as part-time developer and part-time end-user trainer. Funding support for initial development came from institutional sources as well as the NIH supported General Clinical Research Center (GCRC)[50].
