The Partners Healthcare Institutional Review Board (IRB) has implemented the online tracking and submission of protocols via the Insight Research Portal. Using an Internet web browser, users can access protocols available within the IRB central database system, Research Express (ReX), or protocols added through the automated eIRB submission function within the system. Every night Insight is updated with information entered into Research Express during the business day.
The Humans module within Insight provides search capability and tracking of all protocol details, including meeting dates, review type, project status, notes from committee meetings, as well as online submission of the full IRB process (New Protocol Submissions, Continuing Reviews, Amendments, Adverse Events, and Other Events).
Business users are granted access to protocols with various permission levels allowing viewing, editing, or managing of those protocols. There are four ways for a user to gain online access to protocols:
Association to a department or unit that displays all protocols under that group
Association to Principal Investigator
Staffed on the particular protocol with a role
Designated as someone who has “Non-Study Staff” access to a particular protocol
Protocols are displayed on tracking pages, depending on the status of the protocol. Tracking pages include: Active Protocols, Pending Applications, Work in Progress, Inactive Protocols and Exempt Protocols. These pages are accessed by clicking on the page tab headers (sub-navigation) under the Humans module. Each page will be described in more detail in the sections below.
Screenshot: Humans Sub-Navigation Tabs