OnCore
OnCore
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OnCore is Yale’s enterprise Clinical Trials Management System, supporting the full lifecycle of clinical research across the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI), Yale Cancer Center (YCC), and Yale New Haven Health (YNHH). It provides centralized management of operational, regulatory, financial, and administrative study components, with integrations to the electronic health record (Epic), Institutional Review Board (IRB) system, and financial platforms. It also supports participant management. The Research Informatics Office (RIO) provides advanced support including issue triage, configuration review, vendor coordination, upgrades, and reporting. Basic support is handled by the YCCI Systems Support team. Advanced requests should be submitted via the ServiceNow ticketing system.
The RIO team offers the following OnCore-related services:
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- System Infrastructure Support
- Support/monitor hardware, networking, and software components.
- Schedule annual updates and apply change management.
- Manage scheduled and emergency downtimes.
- System Enhancements and Projects Prioritization
- Convey requests for product enhancements to the vendor and seek their inclusion in the vendor's roadmap.
- Prioritize Yale-specific unplanned projects to align with Yale's objectives contingent on resource availability.
- Analyze project sizing for proposals submitted by the research business units.
- OnCore Tier 2/Tier 3 Support - OnCore Technical Expert (troubleshoot and resolve issues outside of general inquiries or requiring expert OnCore support).
- Optimize/customize OnCore reference lists and configurations.
- Provide deep understanding of the application functions.
- Address issues that are not frequently encountered.
- Investigates issues and determines criticality prior to escalation to the vendor.
- Collaborates to create custom/standard interfaces.
- OnCore Related Consultation & Training
- Provide insight and recommendations for new functionality and provide training and/or demonstrations to help support the decision for adoption.
- Weekly office hours
- OnCore-Specific Analytics and Reporting
- Custom Reports
- Dashboards
- Data Mining/Data Extracts
RIO Support Availability: Monday – Friday 8:00am – 5:00pm EST
Off-Hours/Emergency Support: After-hours support is available in case of a planned or unscheduled downtime.
OnCore Delegation of Authority and Support Escalation:
Tier 1 – OnCore Support
Contact OnCore Support by sending an email to OnCore.Support@yale.edu
- Managing user access
- Troubleshooting basic technical issues
- “How-to” questions
Tier 2/Tier 3 – Expert OnCore Support
OnCore Support will ask the user or will create on their behalf a ServiceNow ticket with the RIO department.
Tier 4 – Vendor Support
The RIO department will investigate and determine the need to escalate any issue and its criticality to the vendor. They will communicate with necessary parties at Yale and document the progress until completion.
RIO Supported Integrations
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OnCore Integration Framework
| Integration | Source System | Destination System | Deployed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epic Demographic Interface | Epic | OnCore | 2013 |
| Epic Subject Enrollment Interface | OnCore | Epic | 2013 |
| Epic Study Record Interface | OnCore | Epic | 2013 |
| Epic Protocol Billing Grid Interface | OnCore | Epic | 2013 |
| Yale Studies website / Beatrix (profiles) | OnCore | yalestudies.org | 2013 |
| Epic Lab Results Interface | Epic | OnCore | 2014 |
| Caboodle Helix DataMart | OnCore | Caboodle | 2015 |
| Yale Cancer Center Trials Portal | OnCore | yccitrials.ynhh.org | 2015 |
| Workday Sponsor Invoicing | OnCore | Workday | 2017 |
| Workday Sponsor Revenue Received | Workday | OnCore | 2017 |
| Bluesight audit trail data warehouse | OnCore | Bluesight | 2017 |
| Epic Lab Results Interface | Epic | EDC | 2021 |
| U.S. Bank Subject Reimbursement | OnCore | USB | 2024 |
| IRES IRB management system interface | IRES eIRB | OnCore | 2024 |
| People Hub HR repository | People Hub | OnCore | 2024 |
| REDCap Research Electronic Data Capture | REDCap | OnCore | 2024 |
| ServiceNow | OnCore | SNOW | 2025 |
| Triomics Study Record Interface | OnCore | Triomics | 2026 |