1. REDCap Software: What’s New & What’s Next
Rob Taylor
Lead Developer · REDCap Development Team
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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2. Before we take a look back…

3. Redesign of projectredcap.org

4. Redesign of projectredcap.org

5. Redesign of projectredcap.org

6. And a reminder…

7. Bugs and vulnerabilities are real
Please keep your REDCap updated

8. What’s New in REDCap?

9. What’s New in REDCap?
Let’s review the past year…

10. 6.10 – Project Folders

11. 6.10 – Survey Themes

12. 6.11 – Lots of new API methods
Arm import/delete
Event import/delete
Metadata import
User rights import
Create new project (via Super Token)

13. 6.12 – CDISC ODM support Exporting data & metadata (including API)
Export/import an entire project as single XML file (including API)

14. 6.12 – Live Filters in Reports

15. 6.13 – Responsive design for user interface

16. 6.14 – Administrator To-Do List

17. 6.15 – Enhanced radios and checkboxes for surveys

18. Lots of other goodies Delete Records API Vertical Slider Fields
New Action Tags
@USERNAME
@APPUSERNAME-APP
@HIDEBUTTON
@DEFAULT
@BARCODE-APP

19. What’s Next for REDCap?
A taste of what’s to come…

20. New user type: “Account Manager”

21. New user type: “Account Manager”
Can browse user accounts and edit user account settings
Can add users to the User Whitelist
Can send s from Users page
Can create new user accounts (Table-based authentication only)
*Cannot* access other users’ projects or data

22. And of course…

24. Infinitely repeating forms and events (one-to-many data collection)
Classic project
Repeat a form N times
Longitudinal project
Repeat an event N times
And/or repeat a form N times

25. Infinitely repeating forms and events

26. Infinitely repeating forms and events
Classic projects
Collect ad hoc longitudinal data
Collect repeating data of different instruments (e.g. meds, family members, adverse events)

27. Infinitely repeating forms and events
Longitudinal projects
Repeat entire events of forms
Repeat a form on a given event

28. Infinitely repeating forms and events
“Truly one of the greatest features
in REDCap history.”
- No one [yet]
And next…

29. Secure User Messaging

30. Secure User Messaging

31. Secure User Messaging

32. Secure User Messaging

33. Secure User Messaging

34. Secure User Messaging Secure method of communicating within REDCap
User-to-user messaging as conversations
Send files securely to other users
Send one-way messages from administrators to users (announcements)
Also used for making users aware of new features in REDCap

35. Lots coming in the next few months!
Summary:
Account Manager user type
Infinitely repeating forms and events
Secure user messaging

36. But what about in 2017?

37. But what about in 2017? Good question!

38. More than a decade of releasing new features, one after another.
400+ version releases!

39. Time to focus on the little things for a bit.

40. Improving overall user experience
Tweaks to improve UI - Less text, more modern-looking
Making existing functionality simpler, easier, and more efficient (less clicks, more straight-forward)
For new features, more minor features and less major features.

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Better, Faster, Stronger

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44. With so many options, REDCap can look like this.

45. Instructions can be helpful when building complex things.

46. Instructions can be helpful when building complex things.
Streamline the process of building projects based on purpose
Survey wizard

47. And there’s power users who can take…
and create…

48. And then there are REDCap Master Builders

49. Not everyone is a Master Builder

50. In 2017, we’ll continue to improve REDCap piece by piece for everyone.

51. And when all these pieces fit together…