New support site to track and manage enhancement requests and changes. Allows members from the development committees to submit requests and for the dev meeting to use the agenda and minutes functionality in iStar.
Enhanced IBC section of iStar to support submissions from CHLA.
IRB Changes
New COI questions added for conflicted investigator to answer - modeled after the questions currently sent via email
Study Form Changes
Page 5: Link to protocol help for USC
Page 9: investigator Initiated question's wording (9.3.1) was slightly altered
Page 9: new question added (9.3.1.1) to capture the Clinical Trials number (NCT number) for investigator initiated trials
Page 12: removed the coverage analysis questions (12.3 & 12.3.1) since this is being handled efficiently by CTO at this time
Page 13: Q 13.3 has been removed, since the number of charts for retrospective chart reviews is mostly meaningless. The subsequent questions on the page have been adjusted to reflect its removal.
Slight text changes in a number of places to spell out acronyms (such as GCP or SCRO)
Individual Investigator Agreement requests go out automatically for volunteers
HSC IRB can edit the applications under certain conditions
Exempt studiers can now be closed. The close study activity has been opened for studies in the "exempt" state.
New paragraph added to approval letters at the bequest of the VP for Research that explains that IRB review may not constitute clearance to start your research
Monthly reports fixed
EUA button size adjusted to fit on the page better
Various miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements
IACUC Changes
Form Changes
Main Protocol Page 3 (Species): Confirmation box is displayed when deleting species from the protocol
Main Protocol Page 4 (Documents): Additional column added to Related IBC Protocols section to include link to Section 13 of IBC Protocol
Main Protocol workspace: There is now a flag indicating that the PI is in Non Compliance
Main Protocol workspace for Amendments: A link to the parent protocol, along with protocol name, was added to the summary box
Species Section 15: New question added (15.2)
Staff
Non Compliance Reports, Send Message to Investigator activity: Enhanced with a Respond By Date that will send reminders every three days if there is no response from the investigator
Non Compliance Reports and Monitoring Reports: Added functionality for internal messaging, as well as messaging between IACUC staff and PI.
Profile Management: There were additional training courses that were added: Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4 and PI Training
Administrative Review now has an ability for IACUC Specialists to "Forward for DMR"
Reminders notices: Reminders are sent daily to reviewers assigned for DMR who have not done their reviews
Submit Review: Enhanced activity for Committee Members to submit their reviews of protocols; merged Submit IBC Review activity with Submit Review activity for IBC reviewers and added new section specifically tailored for IBC reviewers
Various miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements
IBC Changes
Form Changes
Section 6: Question 6.1. Vectors bug fixed and the question is now required
Section 8: "Biologically Derived Toxins" is now changed to "Toxins of Biological Origin"
Section 13: Wording for question 13.1. has been updated
Staff
Reports: IBC Weekly Reports are now also sent to IBC Specialists and Chairs
