OpenClinica Releases Enhancements to Clinical Trial Software
OpenClinica, LLC, announces the availability of the latest version of its popular open source clinical trials software. The OpenClinica v3.1.3 release contains over 100 fixes and enhancements, including:
- Improved performance and stability, including 80% increase in max user load and 40% faster page turn times
- Numerous improvements to OpenClinica's internationalization/localization support
- Support for CRF version migration of individual event CRFs
- Enhanced security with strong password configuration options
- Greater reliability when entering or editing data in repeating groups
- Ability to run rules at data import and when loading data via web services
- Fixes to nested simple conditional displays in CRFs
These, and many other, advancements are the result of efforts by OpenClinica, LLC and members of the OpenClinica community. “OpenClinica community contributors have helped fuel a lot of the progress reflected in this release,” said Cal Collins, OpenClinica’s CEO. “This release is evidence that a strong open source community can drive the software to a higher quality standard.”
OpenClinica 3.1.3 Community Edition is freely available for download on the OpenClinica community website.
The company also announces that version 3.1.3 of its commercially backed OpenClinica Enterprise Edition is also now available. OpenClinica Enterprise is provided as fully validated, enhanced, and supported implementation of the open source technology, ideal for mission critical environments. This latest rendition of the OpenClinica Enterprise Edition also leverages Akamai’s global content delivery network (CDN), further accelerating the application’s performance.
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