UTHealth automates medical research consent process with iMedConsent

September 2, 2010, 11:20 am by Healthcare IT News

There seems to be more and more money going into biomedical research, with not enough product coming out, according to researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. This is where iMedConsent comes into play. Researchers at UTHealth have employed Dialog Medical’s automated consent solution to streamline their research processes. One of the drivers is decreasing administrative burden, in addition to decreasing regulatory burden.

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