Conflict of Interest

The business of research is growing rapidly and forward-thinking institutions are using a research portal to reduce exposure to financial relationships that could create a conflict of interest between employees and industry. Click Commerce eResearch Portal manages annual Conflict of Interest (COI) disclosures, periodic amendments, and project-based declarations of new holdings/relationships instantly. It eliminates the nearly impossible manual task of matching a Principal Investigator's (PI) financial position with incoming research proposals before proposals are approved. In addition, because it's part of a larger eResearch Portal system, annual COI disclosures become part of an overall PI Profile and are used on every Institutional Review Board (IRB), Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), and Funding Proposal submission. eResearch Portal optimizes your existing COI review and case management process with state-of-the-art Internet software. COI review and case routing time is reduced and administrators across campus-whether in the IRB, IACUC or COI groups;know where everything stands at any moment of the day or night. With the eResearch Portal, you decide which review processes to support and when to support them.

COI Management Features

• Compare annual COI disclosure data with individual IRB, IACUC and/or Funding Proposal submissions automatically
• Flag COI or other reviewers the instant conflicts appear
• Allow researchers to update COI positions at any point during the year
• Manage COI committee meetings on an ad-hoc or scheduled basis
• Track individual COI cases through any management process desired
• Maintain a complete audit trail of any researcher's financial declarations over time
• Secure access to all COI data to appropriate reviewers with a need to know
• Publish and track management plans in a secure workspace for each employee
• Report statistics on your COI disclosures and department participation
• Remind employees automatically via e-mail when their annual disclosure is due or incomplete
• Start simple and grow Electronic Research Administration (eRA) support over time; you can implement in phases as your processes change and mature