Options for medical oversight roles

You must choose at least one person to serve in a medical oversight capacity. You have several options for assigning roles for medical oversight.

Consider the following options for people who serve in a medical oversight capacity:

• If one person monitors all populations, assign the Organization Coordinator role to them.

  This approach requires the lowest work effort for the organization while concentrating all of the work on a single person.

• If multiple people monitor your populations, choose either of the following options:
  • Assign the Organization Coordinator role to the people who are responsible for medical oversight.

    Because everyone with this role has access to all participant data, keep in mind that monitoring work might be duplicated. Your organization might or might not want this redundancy.

  • Assign the Medical Oversight Officer role to each person for the entities that they're monitoring.

    People with the Medical Oversight Officer role have access to the participant data only for the entities for which they have the role, with one exception: If someone has the Medical Oversight Officer role for a parent entity, they have access to participant data for its child entities, too.

    If you opt for this approach, make sure that you assign the Medical Oversight Officer role for every entity, or you risk leaving some populations unmonitored.

To learn more about the roles, see Organization roles and Entity roles.