Centralized Automation Solution Enables Secure Collaboration and Shorter Turnaround Times

BEAVERTON, Ore., Jun 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Click Commerce, an ITW company (NYSE: ITW), announced today that
Children's Hospital Boston (CHB) will use Click Commerce's eResearch
Portal to fully automate Institutional Review Board (IRB) processes
for human subject research. Home of the world's largest research
enterprise at a pediatric medical center, CHB is using the eResearch
Portal software to streamline and strengthen its IRB procedures. CHB,
which is already using Click Commerce's eResearch Portal to manage
post-award grants funding processes, is taking advantage of the
platform's flexibility and expandability by adding human subject
oversight to its existing research administration solution.

IRBs monitor the safe and ethical conduct of human subject medical
and behavioral research. Click Commerce eResearch Portal allows CHB to
automate all IRB workflow processes, eliminate routine errors and
omissions, ensure secure collaboration, and alert researchers of
approaching deadlines--all while using CHB's own forms and pre-review
steps. Click Commerce's Web-based, configurable submissions system for
IRB applications distributes data instantly among research teams,
speeding review and approval processes for all stakeholders.

"Our success with Click Commerce's grants management solution
simplified our choice of a system for streamlining our IRB efforts,"
said Carleen Brunelli, vice president for research administration at
Children's Hospital Boston. "We were already familiar with the
platform's configurability, which is crucial for preserving our IRB
forms and workflow processes. At the same time, eResearch Portal
enables us to significantly shorten turnaround times while improving
collaboration and accuracy among review and oversight teams. In short,
the Click Commerce solution allows us to spend more time on actual
research."

"We are pleased to see one of the country's leading children's
hospitals and research centers increasing compliance efficiency
throughout the institution," said Nick Stier, senior vice president in
charge of Click Commerce Research and Healthcare. "CHB is leveraging
eResearch Portal's unique ability to streamline a variety of formerly
time-consuming but critical tasks--initially in grants management, now
in compliance-- so that more time can be spent on producing results."

Children's Hospital Boston and many other leading healthcare
research institutions use Click Commerce's browser-based, secure
eResearch Portal to automate a wide range of administrative and
compliance processes, including those associated with Grants, IRB,
Conflict of Interest, and Clinical Trials Participant Tracking and
Billing, among others.

About Click Commerce Research and Healthcare

Click Commerce Research and Healthcare is a leading provider of
automated research administration and compliance systems to some of
the premier academic medical centers and research institutions in
North America, including Johns Hopkins University, Duke University and
the University of Pittsburgh. More information can be found at
research.clickcommerce.com.

Click Commerce is a registered trademark of Click Commerce, Inc.,
and its subsidiaries. All other company and product names mentioned
herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.

SOURCE: Click Commerce

Click Commerce, Inc.
Nick Stier
Senior Vice President
Research & Healthcare Solutions
503.601.4523 direct

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