Chunk #30 — Building and Supporting the REDCap Consortium: A Phased Approach — Phase 5: Building a Diverse Community (~ 500 sites; ~ 2009–2012) — Benefits:
Increased growth and visibility of the REDCap Consortium stimulated additional interest in the software platform among non-profit institutions, government stakeholders, and international research centers. By the end of 2012, we were supporting more than 500 Consortium partners. As always, new partners brought greater numbers of end users, and more users brought additional use cases which ultimately helped us further evolve the program. Enhanced API functionality prompted research informatics teams to begin building interoperable systems leveraging “REDCap as a Platform.” Numbers of publications referencing REDCap grew each year, providing an important metric for evaluating scientific impact (Figure 3). The addition of a yearly in-person REDCap Conference enabled the REDCap Consortium to become a professional home for many applied informatics experts.
