During the course of growing the Consortium, we occasionally received requests from research groups at institutions that lacked local capacity to support REDCap installation and provide ongoing support for the technical infrastructure. In order to respond to this need, we established the Vanderbilt Data Coordinating Center Core (VDCC). The Core model enabled us to provide hosting services to users outside of Vanderbilt whose needs went beyond standard REDCap infrastructure, allowed diversification of our financial support model, and introduced the REDCap platform to more diverse users (including industry based research teams). Hosting fees from the Core model allowed us to expand our REDCap team to include a dedicated community-facing support person for training and Consortium support.
