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USDA-APHIS National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) experts and representatives from other Federal research laboratories in northern Colorado will host a free technology transfer fair for individuals interested in learning more about northern Colorado’s Federal research laboratories, their expertise, and potential products, tools and techniques available for transfer to the private sector.

The event will be held from 9:00am-4:30pm MST on August 7 at the Drake Centre in Fort Collins, Colorado.

To learn more, visit the event’s website at www.aphis.usda.gov/2012TechTransferFair.

The Scientist published an opinion on the dangers of reflexively associating financial relationships between researchers and industry with research bias and misconduct.  This subject was previously raised in an InfoEdge article, and touches on a <a href="http://sites viagra bestellen rezeptfrei.nationalacademies.org/PGA/uidp/PGA_062192″>project undertaken by the University Industry Demonstration Partnership to clarify references to financial interest and conflict of interest.

ALBANY, NY  Today InfoEd Global announced the dates for its Annual User Group Meeting. Scheduled for May 20-23, 2012, the event will be held at the Gideon Putnam Resort and Spa in Historic Saratoga Springs, New York. In addition to the three-day event, the company plans a fourth day dedicated to more intensive educational workshops.

The 2012 User Group Meeting (UGM) dubbed, “Share the Knowledge”, will be the 15^th consecutive UGM held for the benefit of InfoEd Global clients. Customer attendees traveling from as far as Africa and Eurasia, as well as every corner of the United States, will participate in sessions ranging from technical and user-based training, to previews of new products and product enhancements. Attendees will also participate in workshops, forums and round table discussions and deliberate forward-looking initiatives with key InfoEd Global staff.

Online registration for InfoEd Global clients, colleagues and invited guests, is scheduled to begin in Mid-February, 2012.

ALBANY, New York – InfoEd Global, the leading provider of integrated research administration solutions, announced today a partnership with Forte Research Systems to provide seamless integration with their clinical research solutions. As recognized software innovators with a significant shared customer base within the clinical research community, the partnership will offer exponential gains for current and future clients of both organizations.

“One of the many strengths of the InfoEd Solution is its capacity to reduce data redundancy, eliminate errors, and improve compliance for Sponsored Programs staff and offices,” said InfoEd Global President, Edward Johnson, Jr. “Partnerships like this and the others that we support make sense for our shared clients, for future clients that will benefit from the relationship, and moreover, are in step with our goal to provide best-in-class services to the world’s top research institutions.”

The InfoEd® Human Studies/ IRB Ethics Solution and the OnCore® clinical research management system from Forte already share countless data points. Developing a common Web Service to leverage these commonalities will provide researchers, administrators and other key clinical staff with far greater efficiencies by eliminating the redundancies inherent in maintaining two disparate systems.

“Eliminating data silos and opening communication between systems improves clinical research operations across the industry, for everyone,” said Srini Kalluri, President, CEO, and Chief Customer Experience Officer at Forte Research Systems. “This partnership leverages InfoEd’s domain expertise to expand the value we can offer our common customers while allowing us to stay focused on our core competencies.”

Specific technical details are not yet available, but enhanced capability to share information across departments and systems, faster communication of review outcomes, and greater transparency throughout the review process are all obvious advantages that the integration may provide to users of the systems.

Engineers from both organizations are collaborating on technical development to provide seamless integration between the OnCore system and the InfoEd Human Studies/ IRB Ethics Solution. No date has been announced for when the Web Services will be available, but the companies’ joint statements indicate that the collaboration is a high priority.

InfoEd Global and Maximus Announce Agreement for Integrated Research Administration Solution

New MAXIMUS Effort Reporting System (ERS) Integration to Deliver Industry Standard for Interoperability

In an effort to deliver the optimum software solution for Research Administration compliance and reporting, and to support greater interoperability and technology choice for clients, InfoEd International, Inc. today announced new integrations that will enable MAXIMUS software solution – including Effort Reporting System (ERS) Certification and Committed Effort Modules – to be accessed seamlessly within InfoEd’s research administration software suite.

This initiative will bring together the robust capabilities of InfoEd’s Enterprise Research Administration Software with MAXIMUS ERS, a solution to help central and academic departments comply with increasingly complex federal regulations surrounding effort reporting and managing effort commitments. The combination will enhance ease of use for researchers, staff and administrative users of the MAXIMUS and InfoEd product suites.

“Our goal is to increase the impact of research by transforming the research administration process. This partnership takes advantage of each company’s clear areas of expertise to improve the grant and effort reporting process for researchers and administrators,” said Edward Johnson, Jr., President of InfoEd. “This step provides a best-of-breed solution for institutions to manage the complete Effort Reporting process, and to ensure that our current and future customers are well positioned for the future.”

The integration with MAXIMUS will create seamless access within the InfoEd product suite to MAXIMUS Effort Reporting System for managing, planning, tracking and reporting effort commitments from pre-award to close out of the project. Additional integration efforts will be focused on delivering committed effort details on sponsored projects from InfoEd’s Grants software in support of the Effort Tracking and Reporting Process. The synergies will streamline effort in the Effort Tracking and Reporting process reducing the work required to aggregate information from disparate systems, increase data integrity in the process, enable institutions to be proactive rather than reactive, and facilitate compliance with Federal Regulations.

“By effectively combining the energy and ingenuity of our firms and our large client bases, this extraordinary partnership will revolutionize grant management and effort reporting for the entire research administration community,” said Harold Horton, Senior Vice President of MAXIMUS. “We will collectively provide institutions with the industry’s most comprehensive and mature ‘end to end’ solution. This partnership will serve the community as a critical facility for the generation and implementation of client ideas to improve business processes through transformative solutions and consulting services.”

InfoEd and MAXIMUS are working with their joint clients to pilot various integration methods. For institutions that would like to participate in the pilot integration initiatives, please contact either Kelsey Rosell at InfoEd Global, krosell@infoedglobal.com, or Anne Feuerborn at MAXIMUS, annefeuerborn@maximus.com.

For more information about the MAXIMUS Effort Reporting solutions, please visit www.maximus.com.

InfoEd grows in 2011 as The Business Review unveils 2011 list of hottest performing companies

ALBANY, New York — InfoEd International, Inc., the leading provider of electronic Research Administration (eRA) software solutions, announced today that, according to the newly published Book of Lists, a publication of The Business Review in Albany, NY, InfoEd International is the third largest commercial software development firm in the Capital District. Based upon the data contained in the report, InfoEd is also the second largest employer in their category of “Technical Professionals” in the Capital Region.

“InfoEd has enjoyed steady growth now since our reorganization in 2009,” said Edward Johnson Jr., President of InfoEd. “Given the current economic climate, I am proud of what we have been able to accomplish. Further, we are fortunate to be headquartered in Albany – an area that has invested heavily in attracting and retaining some of the best technical talent in the country.”

Johnson Jr. went on to say the company continues to track on the current growth path; sales are the highest in the companies twenty-year history, the company has added twelve additional technical and professional staff so far in 2011, and it plans to hire still more this year.

The Book of Lists contains lists of top companies in the Albany, NY and surrounding area, arranged by industry. It provides business professionals with intelligence on the local market and an overall picture of the local area and industry. It is a resource for businesses both locally and nation-wide to use for developing strategic plans, competitive analysis, as well as a resource for other activities including relocation planning, networking and B2B transactions.

11 New courses covering Human Subjects, Lab Animals, and Batch Communications

InfoEd International announced the arrival of new educational courses on their Human Subjects and Lab Animals modules at the InfoEd Online Training University – launched in April of 2011.

This second release from InfoEd University includes 11 new courses, providing all InfoEd clients, from investigators to module administrators, valuable insight into the use of InfoEd’s Human Subjects and Lab Animals modules. Rigorously reviewed for accuracy by InfoEd senior product managers, the courses represent a compilation of best practices that will serve InfoEd clients well into the future.

Much like the previously released Grants and eForms courses, the Human Subjects and Lab Animals courses take advantage of software simulations that engage and interact with users in a way that allows them to learn how to use InfoEd most efficiently and effectively.

In addition, the new release includes a course on Batch Communications. This course educates InfoEd clients on how to create, setup, and run Batch Communications, which can be used across several InfoEd modules.

InfoEd also announced that the University team will launch new eForms Tools and Grants Budgeting Model courses within the coming months. Designed to help ease the transition for clients hoping to make use of these new tools, these courses will help ensure clients remain up to date on the latest software enhancements from InfoEd.

Yale University selects InfoEd’s Software Solution to Improve Research Administrative Systems and Processes

University Successfully Implements Proposal Tracking, Conflict of Interest, and eRA Portal Solutions

ALBANY, New York — InfoEd International, Inc., the leading provider of electronic Research Administration (eRA) software solutions, announced today that Yale University has successfully implemented InfoEd’s Proposal Tracking module as part of their grant management and submission process. The University also has implemented InfoEd’s Conflict of Interest (COI) solution software, enabling the University to auto-detect potential conflicts arising from participants on particular grants, protocols, trials and disclosures. In addition, Yale University utilizes InfoEd’s web service, which provides real time integration with existing systems improving Yale’s administrative systems and processes.

Edward Johnson Jr., President of InfoEd commented: “We are proud to add Yale, another Ivy League school, to the InfoEd family. From the very beginning, I have been impressed with Yale’s software implementation process. They have shown, and continue to show, great vision for not only their research endeavors but also the software systems needed to support them. These latest systems leverage leading-edge technologies and is very much in-line with the Universities world-leading research programs. I applaud everyone on the Yale and InfoEd teams in achieving this remarkable milestone in software implementation.”

InfoEd International Collaborates with Thomson Reuters Enhancing the Research Administration Process

End Users Will Be Able To Utilize Specific Thomson Reuters Services Enabling Integration of Content in Systems and Workflow

ALBANY, New York — InfoEd International, Inc., the leading provider of software solutions for electronic Research Administration (eRA), announces a strategic collaboration with Thomson Reuters, whereby Thomson Reuters science, arts and humanities, and social sciences data will be available within InfoEd’s Research Outputs module. This new endeavor will provide end users the opportunity to search and access information gathered from scholarly journals in these areas, enabling integration of critical content into existing systems and workflow.

This collaboration with Thomson Reuters will provide quick, powerful access to bibliographic and citation information needed to find research data, and analyze trends, journals, and researchers, and will enable end users to share their findings.

InfoEd is also developing an interface with Thomson Reuters that would utilize Thomson Reuters EndNote enabling end users who do not use the InfoEd Research Output module but use other eRA modules, to access publication information as well. EndNote is used by millions of researchers, scholarly writers, students, and librarians to search online bibliographic databases, organize references and related files, and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly. In addition, EndNote Web is included with EndNote so collaboration with others is easy. This integrated writing solution saves users countless hours of typing and interpreting style requirements for publications, making EndNote an essential tool for research, writing and publishing.

Additionally, the interface will offer end users the ability to utilize Thomson Reuters InCites, a customized citation-based research evaluation tool, which provides objective analysis of your people, programs and peers. InCites enables an end user to analyze institutional productivity and benchmark output against peers worldwide. This comprehensive resource supplies all the data and tools needed to easily produce targeted, customized reports, allowing in-depth analyses of the institution’s role in research, as well as produce focused snapshots that showcase particular aspects of research performance.

Edward Johnson, Jr. President of InfoEd International commented: “We are excited to offer our clients innovative services through our software modules that will enable greater outcomes while utilizing state-of-the-art products. We are the world’s leader in integrated software solutions for Research Administrators and we feel that partnering with companies such as Thomson Reuters enables our software suite to continue being the leader in this fast and ever changing industry.”