Maintaining data integrity, accountability, and traceability is key in clinical trials but can conflict with data privacy requirements. The immutable audit trail that is mandated can become an irreversible privacy breach if personally identifiable information is entered by mistake. For this purpose, Viedoc now introduces a privacy breach masking function.
This feature allows the site to mask data values that contain personally identifiable information and have been removed from the CRF, but are still exposed in the audit trail. Technically, it's a filter that sits on top of the audit trail and prevents anyone not having the auditor role, or regulatory inspector role, from examining the information beneath it.
With Viedoc 4.60 coming out this August, you can mask any personally identifiable information that is entered by mistake just as easily as you edit a record. How cool is that?!
Enjoy your trial.