Entrypoint Plus—the Easy Way
to Manage Clinical Trials
Entrypoint Plus® is a complete system for creating, deploying, and administering custom clinical trials applications.
Entrypoint 3.0 is built around an advanced, scalable, client-server architecture, and uses ODBC to interface with SQL databases for data storage. Reliability, ease of use and cost-effectiveness make it the obvious choice for clinical trials data management.
Entrypoint Plus consists of several modules: the Application Developer, Data Entry Workstation and the Administrator—as well as the Entrypoint Server.
Tailored to Clinical Trials
While many clinical trials software packages consist of one fixed system for all trials, all environments, and all types of data, Entrypoint is highly flexible.
Entrypoint Plus comes with a set of electronic case report form templates for a typical clinical trials application, with fields for demographics, medical history, examination data, adverse reactions, and lab information. You can use these templates out of the box, or you can modify them. Or, you can develop an application from scratch.
In addition to the CRF templates, Entrypoint Plus includes the following features critical for clinical trials:
- Powerful security options: 128-bit encryption and the tools to allow or prevent access to different parts of the system for different users.
- Full audit trail: Entrypoint auditing conforms to current guidelines published by the US Food and Drug Administration Title 21, Part 11.
- Comprehensive field checking: A full suite of field and form validation checks.
- Remote data entry: Entrypoint can be installed on a LAN or WAN, and configured for remote data entry.
- Batch compare utility: This tool compares two batches created from the same application and generates a report of the differences between the batches, detailing any discrepancies in data entry fields.
- Data export: Entrypoint provides a variety of exporting options to make your data quickly available for statistical analysis. Formats include a customizable text-based output specification, Microsoft Excel (CSV), Access, XML, and SAS-readable files that can be imported into the SAS ETL exporter, and then exported to multiple formats.
- Application revision tool: Entrypoint lets you modify a protocol during an ongoing study and update batches to conform to the new version of the application.
- Software validation: Entrypoint follows procedures that conform to the current guidelines in Title 21, Part 11.
Rapid Application Development
The Entrypoint Plus Application Developer is easy to use, which means less time spent developing clinical trials applications and case report forms, as well as lower development costs (see Entrypoint Plus demo). Developers can quickly create a wide variety of custom data entry applications with built-in validation, editing, and export options. Many Entrypoint Plus built-in attributes make adding advanced features such as range checks, table lookups, duplication, and check-digit validation criteria a simple point-and-click operation. As you develop your Entrypoint application, you can test it by simply clicking a button.
Entrypoint comes with Logic, its own programming language, which allows for nearly limitless customizability.
A Mature Product
Entrypoint is a seasoned product with a 25-year history. DATALEX developed the first version of a DOS-based Entrypoint in the early 1980s. Six years later, the company rewrote the product in the C programming language and named it Entrypoint 90, which was released in 1991. The company developed a version for Windows in 1994.
In 1996, DATALEX was acquired by Phoenix Software. Three years later Phoenix released a 32-bit Windows version of Entrypoint. Entrypoint was enhanced to support SQL in 2004 and remote data entry in 2006. The 2007 release implemented a client-server design that communicates over TCP/IP and stores data in a relational database.
Complete Product Support
Phoenix Software International backs Entrypoint Plus with a full range of support services, including:
- Online context-sensitive help
- Clear and concise documentation, including a tutorial that has you designing and using your applications in just a few hours
- Technical support via email, fax, or telephone
- An Internet discussion group
- Regular product updates
- Classes and onsite training programs
- Application design services
"[the technician] was very helpful and available whenever we had to call during the course of diagnosing the problem… I am very impressed by the level of customer service."
An Entrypoint customer
System Requirements
Entrypoint 3.0 is installed as two components: the server and the client. The software requires a compatible database for data storage, and a compatible network. See System Requirements for details.