The Partners Healthcare Institutional Animals Care and Use Committee (IACUC) has implemented online tracking and submission of protocols via the Insight Research Portal Version 2. Using an Internet web browser, users can access protocols available within Research Express (ReX), or protocols added through the automated eIACUC submission function within the system. Every night Insight is updated with information entered into Research Express during the business day.
The Animals 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 IACUC process (New Protocol Submissions, Annual Reviews, Triennial Reviews, Amendments, and Deficiency Processing).
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 Tissue Only. These pages are accessed by clicking on the page tab headers (sub-navigation) under the Animals module. Each page will be described in more detail in the sections below.
Screenshot: Animals Sub-Navigation Tabs