The 1st Latin-American REDCap Congress (REDCapCon) was held in São Paulo,  at the Sírio Libanês hospital, on the 26th and 27th-April. The main focus of the congress was on the REDCap software – a web application for building and managing online surveys and databases.

Almost 300 participants registered to the event, and over 50 studies were presented. The study entitled “Integrating REDCap to a gamified web-based platform used in a birth cohort follow-up: the coortesnaweb project”,  by Cauane Blumenberg and Aluísio JD Barros, received the best paper award!

The coortesnaweb project

The coortesnaweb is a web-based platform that contains a complete environment to conduct web-based epidemiologic research. More information about the project can obtained here.