As a leading Academic Health System, NUHS integrates exceptional patient care with innovative medical education and research. To maintain its leadership in healthcare innovation, NUHS actively pursues substantial research grants, to further medical knowledge and to enhance patient outcomes. With a vast portfolio of research projects funded by multiple grantors, managing this extensive list of grants poses significant challenges, as the research grant processes remains highly manual and fragmented across multiple grantors. To address these issues, NUHS developed the Compliance Review enabled with Data Analytics (CReDA) initiative to simplify and automate the manual grant management process, to improve productivity and efficiency. CReDA has been implemented across various domains, to improve research grant management and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) transparency across all grantors. By enhancing grantor visibility and KPI tracking, NUHS can streamline its research grant management process, ensuring compliance and improving access to state-of-the-art treatments for NUHS’s patients.
The objectives of CReDA are to achieve productivity gains by reducing the manual tracking required for grant submission deadlines, and to eliminate human errors and omissions during the manual downloading of grantors’ data across multiple grantor platforms. Through the implementation of a grant management dashboard and automated email function in the tool developed, CReDA aims to enable effective monitoring and tracking of grantors’ performance in the research grant submission process.
