Starting the Oracle Clinical Application

System administration for RDC requires that you perform certain tasks in the Oracle Clinical application. To access the Launch page for the Oracle Health Sciences Applications, open a Web browser and enter the URL for your Oracle Clinical installation. For example:

https://computer.mycompany.com/opa54/launch.htm

The Launch page is similar to the RDC Administration Launch page. You can log in to Oracle Clinical; change your password; and access product documentation, software downloads, the Oracle Health Sciences Web site, and the Oracle Health Sciences User Group Web site. See the Oracle Clinical Main window below:

In Oracle Clinical, you use options in Admin, Definition, Design, and Conduct to define and configure settings for RDC. Many of the settings apply to Oracle Clinical as well; some settings apply to RDC only.

• Using reference codelists, you define the reasons, review statuses, access statuses, and allowed actions for discrepancies. See Configuring Discrepancy Management for more information.
• Using a combination of reference codelists and Oracle Clinical forms, you can customize the behavior of RDC during data entry. For example, you can allow HTML data entry for RDC; control the display of conditional blocks, dates, and lists of values; and suppress prompts and warnings. See Customizing Data Entry Behavior for more information.
• You can control what information, such as bookmarks, audit history, and approval data, to include in a Patient Data Report. See Configuring Settings for Reports for more information.