Training of field staff involved in data collection, and office staff handling data entry, checking, and cleaning, has become an established part of our work.
Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) have been implemented for handling data entry from robotic systems and tracking samples as well as data management systems for processed data including microarrays, proteomics data, and microscopy data.
The original products were HSForms (which handled data-entry by converting hand-written forms to digital), HSFreeForm (which did a similar function for hand-written emails or other non-form content) and HSEvaluate (which could parse through complex data on a form to help insurance companies approve or deny claims by pulling out all the relevant info).
MOPEN has been implemented under a Windows environment; thus, it is easy to build and handle the data entry files and the result layout files.
SGA is the Principle Investigator and grant holder and was involved in planning, coordinating the research, sample collection and handling, supervising data entry and analysis, writing and editing of the manuscript.
Gestures handle everything from data entry, to deleting and adding new items, to switching views and updating information.
This proved totally inadequate; handling forms, tracking data entry, writing SAS code, producing follow-up and error reports, and applying the appropriate edits occupied approximately 1.5 FTEs.
We identified several user groups for CHES leading to specific requirements on the availability of certain features for each of them: The patient completes questionnaires on the tablet-PC requiring easy handling of the data entry interface (see Figure 1).
They can handle tasks like research, data entry and e-mail replies.
