Institutional research data administrators from around the world got their REDCap on at REDCapCon 2024, held Sept. 8-11 in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
REDCap, or Research Electronic Data Capture, is a web-based software application launched at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2004 by Paul Harris, PhD, professor of Biomedical Informatics and vice president for Research Informatics at VUMC. It’s now maintained for users around the world by Harris’ team at the Office of Clinical Research Informatics at the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR), where Rob Taylor serves as manager of application development.
Hosted this year by Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and Johns Hopkins University, the conference drew 479 attendees from 21 countries on six continents, the most ever for this annual event.
“From my perspective, the meeting was highly productive, and everyone I spoke with during and after had high praise for the conference, the platform and our REDCap team at Vanderbilt,” Harris said.
At last count, REDCap had users at 7,488 institutions in 159 countries.
The conference, which began in 2009, is organized each year by members of the REDCap team at VICTR. For months of planning, Harris credits Brenda Minor, Michelle Fernandez, Natalie Stanley, Kristen Dhanekula, Teresa Bosler, Theresa Baker, Amanda Miller, Adam Lewis and Rob Taylor.
