Partners at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Health System have developed a digital wallet tool that allows clinical trial participants to store key study information on their smartphones and share it with healthcare providers.

As a story on the University of Miami website details, “clinical trial participants often receive care from multiple providers and health systems while enrolled in research studies. When questions arise about study medications, principal investigators or research protocols outside of scheduled study visits, obtaining accurate information quickly can be challenging for both participants and clinicians.”

To address that challenge, leaders from the Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Health System collaborated to create ResearchPass. Available through Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, the pass provides participants with immediate access to research contacts and study information that can be critical when receiving care outside of routine research visits.

In the University of Miami article, University of Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) executives described how they leveraged the research platform REDCap for the project. “A lot of the research community, at UM and beyond, is really familiar with REDCap,” said Daru Lane Ransford, executive director of CTSI business operations. “We knew that positioning ResearchPass within that platform would make it accessible to the people we’re trying to reach.”

Although ResearchPass has only recently become available, project leaders believe the concept could spread to other research organizations. The platform was designed as a configurable REDCap module rather than a proprietary product. Other institutions can adapt it to their own needs.