RPM® offers many features to manage your processes more efficiently and effectively, whether your organization has 10 or 200 users.

• Record all significant protocol dates and IACUC actions
• Manage IACUC meetings, including agendas, minutes, and tasks
• Maintain and access a library of standard operating procedures and documentation
• Track personnel training and certification
• Print bar-coded cage cards
• Create and manage vendor orders for animals and facility supplies
• Access a full suite of reports that can be output to print, PDF or email
• Provide flexible and comprehensive security features
• Offer focused, managed access to RPM for Principal Investigators and laboratory staff to give them improved access to their data.

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General Features

• Cross-platform: Windows XP/Vista/7, Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.
• Multi-user, client/server architecture.  Compatible with VMware and Citrix XenApp environments.
• Support for LDAP and Single Sign-on.
• Support for 250 concurrent users.
• 128-bit SSL encryption for password and data security.
• Role-based security regime with administrative control of over 150 processes and 30 reports.
• Integrated help module and extensive context-sensitive tooltips.

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IACUC Activities

• Create and manage an unlimited number of protocols.
• Schedule automatic email notifications of protocol expirations and IACUC actions.
• Generate and distribute IACUC agendas and minutes via email.
• Track personnel contact information, training, and certifications.

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Protocol Submission and Management

• Electronic protocol submission and review, including integration with RPMForms.
• Manage and view all protocol-related forms in their native format.
• Manage all significant protocol dates and IACUC actions.
• Record and manage protocol animal allowances and remaining allowances in real time.
• View all personnel, animals, cage cards, tech services and account charges accruing directly to a particular protocol.

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Procedures Library

• Manage the complete standard laboratory procedure library.
• Edit and print text-based procedure descriptions.
• Attach and view illustrative procedure documents in several file formats (such as .doc and .pdf).

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Document Management

• Manage and view unlimited protocol, animal, and IACUC/facilities documents stored within the RPM system.
• IACUC/facilities document types include IACUC appointment letters and IACUC minutes, facilities inspection and engineering program reviews, animal care and use forms, animal use guidelines, veterinary reports, AAALAC program descriptions, and government reports.
• Open documents in their native format – works with .doc, .xls, .txt, ,csv, .pdf, .jpg, .tif, .png and even QuickTime movies.
• Attach multiple versions of documents related to a protocol in .pdf or .doc formats, and open these documents in their native format.

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Facilities Management

• Track complete facility location lists, housing types and individual cages.
• Track current facility populations and occupancy on a real-time basis with no manual census requirement.
• Track animals on a per animal or per cage basis.
• View historical trends in animal occupancy on a species, facility or protocol basis.
• Audit facility populations with barcode scanning.
• Track upcoming animal deliveries by facility, species or vendor.

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Technical Services

• Create comprehensive lists of animal technical services at your facilities.
• Assign hourly, per animal or per incident rates for cost recovery.
• Manage the tech service lifecycle, from requests through fulfillment.
• Generate animal history records and account charges automatically based on tech service fulfillment.

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Animal Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

• Manage an animal’s complete medical history within RPM in an EMR environment.
• Manage an unlimited number of animal medical records.
• Attach and retrieve external documents (such as test results, surgical and anesthesia logs, and procedural descriptions) relevant to individual history records

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Rodent Breeding and Litter Management

• Manage an unlimited number of rodent breed pairs and harems.
• Record new litters, including neonate protocol use, removal, and eventual weaning.
• Wean animals into existing protocols with their own animal and cage cards, and automatically decrement protocol allowances.

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Financial and Account Management

• Track all charges associated with protocols, grant accounts, and principal investigators, including per diems, animal orders, tech services and other direct costs.
• Manage institutional vendor accounts, delivery accounts, investigator grant accounts, and cost centers.
• Create animal and supply item orders, and assign individual orders to protocols as needed.
• Create blanket order agreements, and track outstanding balances.
• Generate monthly per diem charges and account summaries across your entire institution in one click.

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Comprehensive Reports

• Preview, print, create a PDF, archive, or email over 30 RPM reports.
• Control access to reports on a user or role basis.
• Reports include:

- Current Protocol Personnel by Species
- Protocol Notifications and Expirations
- Delegated Review Approvals
- Personnel Certification and Procedure Training
- Animal Receipt
- Upcoming Animal Deliveries
- Current Census Reports
- Current Facilities Occupancy
- Facilities Data Reporting: Daily Caredays, Population, Capacity, and Occupancy
- USDA Category
- Procedure Reports
- Monthly Lab Procedures Summary
- Monthly Cage Card Reports
- Monthly Animal Expirations
- Blanket Order Status
- Unbilled Purchase and Blanket Orders
- Monthly PI Charge Reports
- Year-to-Date Charge Summaries
- Cost Center and Supply Item Summaries

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