REDCap: consortium survey and database software with FHIR hooks

REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is described as a secure web application for online surveys and databases. Projects can be designed online or offline via a Microsoft Excel data dictionary template uploaded later. The software is available at no cost to Consortium Partners and supports authenticated, logged access over a secure connection from multiple sites, with research groups controlling their own users.

Feature claims include audit trails for data and user activity; exports to Excel, PDF, SPSS, SAS, Stata, and R; calendars, scheduling, ad hoc reporting; branching logic, file upload, and calculated fields; and installation said to reach production quickly. Regulatory framing covers environments for HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11, FISMA levels, and international standards under local control of security policy. Interoperability uses FHIR inside an EHR with OAuth2 to pull structured data, documented under Clinical Data Interoperability Services. Multiple language translations are listed as available or anticipated.

For teams that care about shared meaning, the Excel data dictionary and structured EHR ingest are the concrete bridges: field definitions travel as a template, and FHIR supplies a standard shape for clinical attributes. Audit trails and compliance-oriented installs matter for governed research content operations, while exports hand the same captured fields to statistical and reporting stacks without rewriting the capture model.