University of Calgary Selects Huron Consulting Group’s Click™ Portal Software for Research Compliance Processes

Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business consulting services, today announced that the University of Calgary (U of C) has selected its Click Portal software to streamline and automate key research compliance processes.

U of C will utilize the Click Portal software to automate a variety of research compliance processes at the institution, including the university’s Research Ethics Board (REB), Animal Care Committee (ACC), and Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC). ACC and REB are known as the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) in the U.S., respectively.

"We were delighted to find a single platform that will integrate our compliance requirements with our REB and ACC processes while providing secure collaboration among hundreds of researchers and their staffs,” said Dr. Jon Meddings, interim vice president, Research, University of Calgary. "Unifying these processes requires system configurability to match our own forms and review steps – which may differ from U.S. institutions – and it will allow us to do it on our own should we need to.”

"Handling the distributed demands of an institution serving all of southern Alberta requires flexibility,” said Nick Stier, managing director, Huron Education. "The Click Portal software supports configurable forms and workflow processes which will allow U of C to address challenges unique to its operating situation. The University of Calgary now joins the University of British Columbia, the University of Alberta, and the Ontario Institute of Cancer Research as the fourth Canadian research organization to take advantage of our software’s robust features and flexibility.”

The U of C is ranked as one of Canada’s top seven research universities and is among the 13 most research-intensive universities in Canada. The University is known for its relentless pursuit of quality in its offerings, which include one of the strongest and most comprehensive biomedical engineering programs in the country as well as a relatively new and growing college of veterinary medicine. Researchers engaged in a single study are often widely dispersed among various schools and facilities. With Huron’s Click Portal software, all researchers and administrators, regardless of location, will be able to use a single system and a common user interface to manage all studies requiring REB, ACC or IBC approvals.

The University of Calgary and many other leading healthcare research institutions use Huron’s Click Portal platform to automate a wide range of administrative and compliance processes containing confidential information, including those associated with Grants, IRB/REB, Conflict of Interest (COI), and Clinical Trials Participant Tracking and Billing.

About the University of Calgary

The University of Calgary offers more than 100 academic programs in 14 faculties and has 30 research institutes and centers. Twenty-nine thousand students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs. The U of C has over 1,800 academic staff actively engaged in research, scholarship and teaching in Canada and around the world. The university produces an economic impact of $1 billion (CAD) in the Calgary area.

About Click, a Huron Solution

Click Portal software is installed at leading academic medical centers and research institutions throughout North America. Huron Consulting Group acquired Click Commerce in November of 2010 to expand the Company’s solutions for the business of research within its Huron Education practice. Huron Education’s professionals have worked with 90 of the top 100 research universities in the U.S. More information can be found at www.clickcommerce.com.

About Huron Consulting Group

Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve performance, comply with complex regulations, reduce costs, recover from distress, leverage technology, and stimulate growth. The Company teams with its clients to deliver sustainable and measurable results. Huron provides services to a wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations, including healthcare organizations, Fortune 500 companies, leading academic institutions, medium-sized businesses, and the law firms that represent these various organizations. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.