Rascal - Research Administration and Compliance

Service Initiation

https://www.rascal.columbia.edu/

Support

Service Support Contact:

Service Targets:

24/7 99% availability

Priority	Response Time
1	2 hours
2	4 hours
3	1 day

Priority definitions

Priority can be deduced using a combination of Urgency and Impact. For reference, the definitions of these terms are as follows:

Impact:a measure of the business criticality of an Incident, often equal to the extent to which an incident leads to degradation of agreed service levels. Impact is often measured by the number of people or systems affected.

Urgency:the necessary speed of solving an incident of a certain impact. A high-impact incident does not, by default, have to be solved immediately.

Priority:is expected effort. This is denoted by a number value, and is determined through assessing a combination of impact and urgency.

The matrix below describes the framework for determining priority.

PRIORITY
		Impact
		Impact
		High	Medium	Low
Urgency	High	1	1	2
	Medium	2	2	3
	Low	2	3	3

Service Contact:

Halayn Hescock

CUIT Executive Owner:

Alan Crosswell, Technology Infrastructure

Service Description

Rascal provides management of data related to Research Administration and Research Compliance.

Status:

Active

Details

Rascal provides management of data related to Research Administration and Research Compliance. Rascal is a web-based application developed to simplify the University's research compliance and research administration processes. It is designed to help researchers and administrators manage ongoing research projects and related compliance activities here at Columbia.

Standard Service Features

Module	Description
IRB	Human Subject Compliance - Protocol lifecycle from researcher’s entry of study information through administrative review and approval or full committee review and approval. Also interacts with COI review process; agenda/minute builder; consent form builder. Interfaces with Cancer Center Velos Study Management application.
IACUC	Animal Care Compliance - Protocol lifecycle from researcher’s entry of study information through administrative review and approval or full committee review and approval. Also interacts with Granite, the software responsible for ordering of animals and tracking them
Proposal Tracking	Proposal coversheet submission, approval routing, and tracking.
Environmental Health and Safety	Hazardous Materials Registration. Required course monitoring, approvals and emailer.
HIPAA	HIPAA form lifecycle from researcher submission to privacy office/board review and approval. Integrated with the IRB module
COI	Research-wide and School of P&S annual COI form filing, protocol specific COI disclosure forms, review and compliance tracking
Testing Center	Web courses and testing framework used by all Rascal functional groups to administer training. Integrates with all modules
Radiation Safety	Radiation Safety Use Registration. Required course monitoring, approvals and emailer.

Optional

Incremental support is sometimes added to add/accelerate new functionality or add new modules.

Service Eligibility

Anyone involved in research activities