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TAScoring™ provides a data collection and audit tool without the drug monitoring components of TAMonitor™.  As well as a patient and treatment database with baseline and follow up forms tailored to your requirement, it enables you to collect disease assessment scores such as DAS28, HAG and BASDAI over time, and track patient’s responses to treatment, either graphically through a built-in graphing module, or by asking questions of the data via the point-and-click reporting tool.  

Easy To Use

Using a web-server and a standard Internet browser, TAScoring™ is quick and easy to set up and use.  Anyone who is familiar with using Internet or Windows Explorer can get going in no time.  Patient data is accessible via a tree list which provides quick and easy filtering to hone in on the patient of interest.  Simple forms for data entry enable you to record comprehensive demographic, treatment and scoring information.  All information can printed or exported to Excel or PDF at the touch of a button.  And there are no complications with set up as the database is hosted on a server within the Trust which means there’s no need to set up individual PCs.  Even the licencing is simplified into a single Trust-wide licence.

DIY or Hosted

TAScoring™ comes in 2 versions – while the functionality in either is the same the method of hosting is different.  You can use it within your Trust or organisation, in which case all patient demographics and confidential information is available to you direct from the database.  However, should you wish to use TAScoring™ for a wider study, and provide information to users outside your Trust, you can opt for a hosted version.  Instead of being hosted within the Trust the database could be hosted at any third party site, and the data accessed via a web browser and Internet connection.  To preserve sensitive confidentially, sensitive patient information is anonymised within the database so that only authorised users can see data relevant to their particular patients.