REDCap Archive

2026 REDCap Fest recordings available online

Videos and slides from REDCap Fest 2026, held online March 4-6, are available for viewing by members of the Vanderbilt and Meharry Medical College community.

New support for the Department of Biostatistics

The Berry Family Foundation has pledged $1.5 million to the Department of Biostatistics to support improvements to REDCap, a web-based software platform for managing surveys and databases.

REDCapCon 2024 drew 479 attendees from 21 countries on six continents, the most ever for this annual event.

September 20, 2024

World’s research data administrators gather for REDCapCon 2024

REDCap, or Research Electronic Data Capture, is a web-based software application launched at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2004.

Paul Harris honored for achievement in translational research

Transformational scientific achievement in bench-to-bedside translational research forms the criterion for the ACTS Edward H. Ahrens Jr. Distinguished Investigator Award, given annually by the Association for Clinical and Translational Science.

2024 REDCap Fest available online

Videos and slides from 2024 REDCap Fest, held online Feb. 21 – 23, are available for viewing by members of the Vanderbilt and Meharry Medical College research community.

November 21, 2023

REDCap News You Can Use session set for Dec. 4

By VUMC News and Communications

September 21, 2023

World’s research data administrators descend on Seattle for REDCapCon 2023

Institutional research data administrators from around world got their REDCap on at REDCapCon 2023, held Sept. 10-13 in Seattle.

By Paul Govern

May 24, 2023

VUMC app used by research participants around the world

MyCap is a secure, customizable mobile computing application (for smartphone or tablet) used to collect data from research participants on a remote basis. At Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where MyCap was created and launched in 2018, some 107 projects have used the app, and by 2021, research participants in 135 countries had installed the free app.

By Paul Govern

February 16, 2023

REDCap day highlights tool’s new features, global impact

REDCap Day (Research Electronic Data Capture) is an annual event featuring presentations and workshops for the Vanderbilt and Meharry Medical College research community.

By Mia Garchitorena-Scancarelli

January 17, 2023

Virtual REDCap event set for Feb. 1-3

The third annual Virtual REDCap Day event will be held via Zoom on Feb. 1-3 from 8 a.m.-11 a.m. CST each day.

By VUMC News and Communications

November 29, 2022

REDCap News You Can Use series to present “New Survey Smart Variables and Repeating Surveys,” Dec. 5

By VUMC News and Communications

September 29, 2022

Conference highlights REDCap’s global reach

REDCap administrators from around the world recently attended the 14th edition of REDCapCon in Boston, hosted this year by Harvard Catalyst, Harvard University’s center for clinical and translational science.

By Paul Govern

June 16, 2022

Researchers add sign language videos to electronic surveys

A new external module in Vanderbilt's REDCap improves electronic survey accessibility for respondents who are deaf. The module makes it easy to embed individual sign language videos for each survey question and answer.

By Paul Govern