Vidatum Ethics

Manage research ethics with confidence

Streamline ethics applications, approvals, and ongoing oversight with clear audit trails and compliance support.

The Challenge

Institutions struggle with scattered researcher profiles, duplicated publication records, and increasing pressure to demonstrate impact and meet national reporting requirements. Manual processes consume time, increase errors, and create stress during reporting cycles.

The Solution

Vidatum Research brings researcher profiles, outputs, projects, and impact data into one connected system. Automated data enrichment and integrations reduce duplication, improve accuracy, and provide a reliable foundation for reporting, benchmarking, and strategic planning.

The Challenge

Ethics reviews are often managed across slow, disconnected systems—email, shared drives, and paper forms. This fragmentation makes it difficult to track a protocol’s status, coordinate reviewer feedback, and ensure consistent application of standards.
Poor coordination and manual processes directly lead to preventable delays for researchers, communication errors, and incomplete audit trails. This lack of a definitive record heightens institutional risk during accreditation reviews or compliance audits.

The Solution

Vidatum Ethics streamlines and connects every step—from initial submission and reviewer assignment to committee decisions and approval communications—within a single, secure platform.
It enforces standardised procedures while providing complete transparency. The system maintains full compliance with national and international standards by design, giving committees confidence and researchers a clear, guided pathway.

Key benefits

A clear set of outcomes that support reliable research reporting, stronger data quality, and consistent institutional insight.

Structured Ethics Applications

Ensure consistent, complete ethics submissions using configurable forms that capture required information and supporting documentation from the start.

Clear Review Workflows

Replace email-based reviews with transparent workflows that support committee reviews, conditions, and decisions with clear status visibility.

Amendment & Renewal Tracking

Manage amendments, renewals, and ongoing monitoring in one place, supporting continuous ethics oversight throughout the research lifecycle.

Built-In Audit Trails

Maintain a complete record of submissions, reviews, decisions, and changes to support audits, inspections, and internal governance reviews.

Centralised Ethics Records

Create a single source of truth for ethics data, improving coordination between researchers, committees, and research administration teams.

Change History Visibility

Use AI-assisted comparison to highlight updates between submission rounds, helping reviewers focus on changes, respond to conditions, and assess revisions more efficiently.

Detail & Depth

A practical foundation for accurate reporting and institutional insight.

Support separate workflows and reporting for HRECs, animal ethics, biosafety, and other committees within one institutional system.

Dynamically show or hide questions based on previous answers, risk category, and research methodology, ensuring relevance and completeness.

Manage conflicts of interest and facilitate peer review with secure, anonymised distribution of protocols to internal or external reviewers.

Track every amendment, resubmission, and renewal in a full version history, linked directly to the original application.

See It In Action!

A quick look at Vidatum Ethics

Ethics summary and governance overview

A consolidated ethics summary gives administrators and committees a clear view of project context, risk indicators, and governance requirements. This supports informed decisions and audit readiness without manual collation.

Ethics submission and review

Vidatum Ethics provides a structured environment for submitting, reviewing, and tracking ethics applications. Clear stages, role based access, and visible status updates help institutions maintain rigor while reducing delays and confusion.

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Vidatum team

Discuss your institution’s research management needs and see how Vidatum supports confident, compliant processes across the full research lifecycle.

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