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Cayuse and Evisions join forces!

Here's exciting news from Cayuse: we've merged with Evisions, a software and services company based in Irvine, California. This alliance combines two companies with a history of customer-focused product development and exemplary customer support.

Moving forward, Cayuse customers can expect to enjoy the same high levels of services and support. Evisions will be adding resources to the Cayuse team and expanding product offerings and integrations, especially with the popular ERP systems.

Cayuse continues development on our product roadmap, with enhancements and features for Cayuse 424, our proposal preparation and submission product, as well as our expanded suite of products for research administration and compliance management: Cayuse SP, Cayuse IRB, and Cayuse IACUC.

See the Evisions web site for more details.

Support for the Health Care Innovation Challenge Grant

Cayuse 424 version 4.8 is shipping to Cayuse customers this weekend, with support for the Health Care Innovation Challenge grant. Nearly a billion dollars is allocated to this grant opportunity, to be awarded in increments from $1,000,000 to $30,000,000.

Cayuse is pleased to deliver full support for this opportunity. Cayuse customers can collaboratively prepare the grant application, validate that the application is error-free, and submit the proposal electronically to Grants.gov.

In addition, Cayuse 424 makes it easy to import their subcontractor's budgets into the prime proposal. Non-Cayuse customers can use the free service at Subawards.com to prepare their subcontract proposal and send it to their Cayuse-powered collaborators for import and electronic submission.

From the grant announcement:

This initiative will fund applicants who propose compelling new models of service delivery/payment improvements that hold the promise of delivering the three-part aim of better health, better health care, and lower costs through improved quality for Medicare, Medicaid, and Children?s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollees.

Stand With Science: Share Your Story

Cayuse believes in the importance of funding scientific and medical research. The Stand With Science site makes the appeal to Congress for preserving federal research funding.

In the next few weeks Congress can choose other deficit reduction measures and avoid the cuts to federal science and engineering R&D. We are reaching out to Congress via the letter to demonstrate how federal science funding is an essential source of American prosperity that cannot afford to be cut.

 

And the Winner is...

The results of our drawing for an iPod Nano at the 53rd NCURA Annual Meeting is:

Fariba Deravi, of Auburn University of Montgomery

Congratulations, Fariba! Thank you to all the many the people who stopped by the Cayuse booth. It was great to see current and future customers.

Red Hill Studios designs physical therapy computer games

Cayuse customers Red Hill Studios and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) are using NIH funding to collaborate on building computer games that assist patients with Parkinson's disease improve their gait and balance.

UCSF and Red Hill were the first research team in the United States to receive federal funding in the burgeoning field of low-cost computerized physical therapy games. Unlike off-the-shelf computer games, these specialized games encourage scientifically tested specific physical movements to help people with functional impairments and diseases.

Read more at the Red Hill Studios site.

Cayuse 424 Training Webinars in November

Cayuse Customer Support will be offering four online training webinars during November. Each session is 30 minutes.

Getting Started with Cayuse 424 will be offered on 11/7 at 10:00 Pacific Time and 11/15 at 1:00 Pacific.

Detailed Budgeting in Cayuse 424 will be offered on 11/3 at 1:00 Pacific and 11/16 at 10:00 Pacific.

Send email to support@cayuse.com for registration instructions.

Research and Ping Pong

There may not be an obvious connection between electronic research administration software and ping pong. Some research administrators would probably make the analogy to feeling like a ping pong ball in a steel room during certain grant deadlines.

But Cayuse has made the connection a little more fun by donating the funds for one of two outdoor ping pong tables to the City of Beaverton. These high quality tables are designed for public use and reflect Cayuse's commitment to give back to the local community where we live and work. Today's public unveiling was attended by Chris Harker, CEO of Cayuse, and Beaverton Mayor Denny Doyle, as well as members of the Beaverton City Council and local news media.

FDP Presentation on the Health of the Academic Research Enterprise

The closing speaker at the September meeting of the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) was Dr. Brad Fenwick. His presentation, entitled "The National Assessment of the Current and Future Health of the Academic Research Enterprise" revealed an amibitous scope and strong relevance to the FDP audience.

Recognizing that academic research is going through a lasting transformational change of historic scope, the Assessment seeks to provide objective results that can help provide a framework for navigating the coming changes. The Assessment is currently in an interview process at 25 universities in the U.S., an approach modeled after a related study that was done in the U.K.

The FDP promises to share results from Dr. Fenwick's work. Grantopedia will provide a link to the presentation here when it's available.

DHHS proposes changes to the "Common Rule"

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has posted proposed changes to the 'Common Rule,' and will accept public comments through September 26, 2011.

Among the proposed changes are:

• Creating mandatory standards for data security and information protection;
• Eliminating the requirement for annual continuing review for some research;
• Requiring informed consent for research using identifiable or de-identified biospecimens;
• Expanding the types of research that can be exempted from institutional review board (IRB) review; and
• Improving informed consent forms.

Cayuse, Inc. is studying the proposed changes and will be monitoring public comments to be sure that our products stay in compliance with DHHS requirements and guidance.

Suggest an app idea to the federal government

The federal government wants your ideas for apps! They have set up a Google Moderator site in which you can suggest an app and vote on apps that have been suggested by others. Check it out here:

 http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=9e436&t=9e436.46

You can find list of currently available apps at USA.gov.