“ DataFax levels the playing field for our small company in competing with the 'big companies'. Long gone are the days of the slow and labor-intensive process of physically retrieving hard copy case report forms from investigative sites, and thumbing through them for data entry and clean-up. ”

DataFax 4.0

DataFax 4.0 was released December 02, 2009.

The following client tools are available for: Windows, Apple OS X, Solaris and LINUX, and can be found at Software Downloads.

iDataFax

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- used for data and study management, includes:

  • Fax - process CRFs submitted by fax, or as email attachments
  • Data - remote data entry, CRF/data reviews, coding, etc.
  • Queries - review data queries
  • Reasons - review reasons for data values
  • Reports - run study management reports
  • Status - work flow management
  • List - spreadsheet data views, export SAS and ASCII data sets

DFsetup

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- used to create and maintain study databases, includes:

  • Plates - register unique CRF pages / data screens
  • Styles - design field property templates
  • Edit Checks - specify data consistency checks and triggers
  • Lookup Tables - create/manage coding tables
  • Centers - register clinical sites
  • Visit Map - specify patient scheduling
  • Conditional Maps - enter rules for cycles, visits, pages, terminations
  • Other Configuration Files - missing value codes, QC covers, etc.

DFsystem

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- used to define studies, study roles and user accounts, includes:

  • Studies - register new study databases
  • Roles - create/modify study roles (user permissions)
  • Users - register/manage: user logins, study access, study roles
  • Status - check system and study status
  • License - register software license, check usage statistics
  • Master - define server configuration, default printer, etc.
  • Traffic - configure fax inbound and outbound processing

DFATK

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- the Acceptance Test Kit is used to validate your DataFax installation, and includes modules for testing:

  • study setup features
  • data entry from CRFs received by fax
  • remote data entry over the internet
  • user defined tasks
  • creating and sending query reports to the sites
  • responding to queries
  • data searches and exports
  • exporting SAS job files
  • exporting CRFs and data records to PDF files

DFserveradmin

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- a new UNIX only tool which must be run on the DataFax server, includes:

  • Master - start and stop DataFax
  • SSL - request a signed SSL certificate from CDSI
  • License - update license, configure seats, check usage statistics
  • Diagnostics - run study diagnositcs
  • Permissions - check/correct study file permissions

DFbarcode

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- used to create the CRF barcodes that route CRF pages recieved by fax to the correct study database

Demo Study

The standard DataFax demo study is available to all current DataFax clients at idemo.datafax.com. If you have not already upgraded to 4.0 we urge you to try it. We welcome your feedback.

The demo study includes example roles and pre-defined tasks for:

  1. Data Entry - as it would be performed by clinical sites submitting data by EDC
  2. Data Managers - processing CRFs faxed by clinical sites, reviewing data entry, MedDRA and medication coding, running reports, etc.
  3. Site Monitors - comparing data recorded in iDataFax with data recorded in medical records
  4. View Only - for anyone who needs to see but not change or export data

To request a login account for each of these roles send a request to support@datafax.com.