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Build your data with UCLA CTSI
Two options are available below for login: UCLA login and non-UCLA login.
Why use
Internal REDCap?
- Hosted behind mednet firewall-no public access.
- Can be accessed via UCLA health network, UCLAHealthSecure wifi or GlobalProtect (Mednet) VPN
- Require mednet account to access.
- Can collect PHI data.
- Can be used for all project types and purposes.
- Cannot be used for public surveys as respondents will not be able to open up surveys without VPN connection.
- Projects with surveys will function ONLY if respondents access the surveys within UCLA health network.
Why use
External REDCap?
- Public facing.
- May be accessible without mednet account.
- Can only collect limited PHI data (collection of certain patient identifiers will require approval of Compliance Office).
- Projects must be of research purposes with IRB approval or exemption.
- Can be used for public surveys.
Access the Internal REDCap
You will need the following:
- Mednet account (will need vpn rights if working off campus).
- Submit the REDCap request form to redcap@mednet.ucla.edu.
- Typically available to UCLA staff and UCLA affiliated persons.
Access the External REDCap
You will need the following:
- Involved in an IRB approved or exempt research project.
- Affiliated with UCLA and have a UCLA email or collaborating with a UCLA research project and have an institutional email (requests using public email e.g. gmail, will not be processed).
- If requester does not have mednet account, HIPAA certificate (UCLA, CITI or other institutions) must be submitted together with REDCap request form in other to be processed.
- Submit REDCap request form to redcap@mednet.ucla.edu for UCLA affiliated persons.
Collaborators (non-UCLA staff or non-UCLA affiliated person):
Internal REDCap
- The UCLA project investigator’s department authorizer is responsible to acquire mednet account with vpn rights for outside collaborator.
- Once the mednet account is approved, the project investigator can submit a REDCap request form to redcap@mednet.ucla.edu.
- It will be the project investigator’s department authorizer responsibility to confirm and renew the mednet account annually for outside collaborator.
External REDCap
- For non-UCLA affiliated collaborators, please have UCLA investigator who will sponsor the account submit completed REDCap request form available from REDCap request form together with HIPAA certificate for the non-UCLA affiliated collaborator to redcap@mednet.ucla.edu.
- UCLA investigators who sponsor non-UCLA affiliated collaborators are required to renew their sponsored accounts annually via the sponsor dashboard within REDCap.
Questions? If you are having trouble logging in, please contact redcap@mednet.ucla.edu.
Important:
- When collecting real data, please make sure to move your project to production status in order to get data backup/corruption protection!
- If your project change request was submitted after 2pm, it may not be processed until the next business day.
- Survey invites and alert notifications sent by non-UCLA/non-mednet users will automatically use the universal from email address redcap.noreply@mednet.ucla.edu.
- When using REDCap Mobile App, your mobile device must be enrolled with AirWatch!