ReStructure

ReStructure is an application platform that helps researchers structure research study data and activities, to track, recruit, screen, navigate and review human subjects.

The platform is flexible, offering valuable features to any organization requiring flexible CRM style data management, case management and document management.

Most requirements are met through configuration, and the application is completely open-source allowing customization in code if needed.

The philosophy of the application is to provide an application layer on top of a well-structured database and filesystem, so that other services and applications can view and manipulate files and data safely, avoiding lock-in, and allowing simple integration with other systems in an organization.

Development and contributing

ReStructure was built by Harvard Medical School to support the Football Players Health Study. The research team uses multiple applications built on the ReStructure platform (known internally as Athena and Zeus) on a daily basis, to manage highly sensitive study and project processes, personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI),…