Run Compliant Research Programs Without Stitching Together Infrastructure
DigitalCabinet replaces the stack of fragmented tools required to manage participants, consent, data, and studies — inside a single compliant platform.
From registry to IRB to longitudinal data pipelines, one unified system.
Trusted by Leading Research Communities
Launch in Weeks, Not Years
Most organizations spend years navigating IRB approvals, infrastructure procurement, and custom software development before enrolling their first participant. DigitalCabinet eliminates that entirely.
We provide a baseline IRB-approved consent framework that covers core data collection and storage requirements — meaning your program can launch without starting from scratch on ethics review. Your team focuses on the science. We handle the platform.
Four Pillars of the Platform
Identity, Consent & Enrollment
Multi-layered consent — registry-level and study-scoped — with sealed e-signatures, versioning, and full audit trails. Enroll an individual, a whole family, by phone, or through a clinician.
- 21 CFR Part 11 sealed e-signatures — independently verifiable and tamper-evident
- Whole-family model: co-caregivers, legally-authorized representatives, proband marking, minor assent and dissent
- Phone-only (SMS) and clinician-mediated enrollment with write-once provenance
Protected Data & De-identification
Every institution’s data is sealed in its own encrypted environment, and medical images and genomics are de-identified the moment they land.
- AES-256-GCM encryption, a unique key per institution, decryption only in-flight
- Automatic DICOM / NIfTI de-identification to the PS3.15 profile, with longitudinal date-shifting
- Fail-safe PHI quarantine and resumable multi-gigabyte uploads
Surveys & Longitudinal Capture
A survey engine built for longitudinal research — no developer required. The same questionnaire runs in multiple languages and rolls up to one dataset.
- Eleven question types, live validation, help text, and branching logic
- Multilingual surveys and consent (English, French, Spanish) collapsing to one dataset
- Longitudinal, editable responses with full timestamped history
Governance, Analytics & Compliance
HIPAA, GDPR, and 21 CFR Part 11 compliant. Research-ready exports, live dashboards, and anonymous participant outreach — admins reach cohorts without ever seeing an email address.
- k-anonymity on all analytics (minimum of 3) and pseudonymous, wide-format exports for R / SPSS / pandas
- Anonymous cohort outreach by consent status and demographics — recipients resolved without exposing addresses
- Immutable audit trail and governed deletion that retains sealed consent records
Compliance You Can Prove
Every claim below is backed by a real platform mechanism — not a policy page.
21 CFR Part 11
Part 11-compliant electronic signatures
Each signature is sealed to the exact consent text, the signer’s printed name, a meaning-of-signature statement, and a server timestamp — any later alteration is detectable on demand.
HIPAA
HIPAA-compliant PHI handling, end to end
AES-256-GCM encryption at rest, decryption only in-flight, automatic file de-identification, and consent-gated access.
GDPR
GDPR-compliant data-subject rights
Instant withdrawal and erasure honored everywhere, a 30-day deletion grace window, and participant control over re-contact, identity, and AI use.
Common Rule (45 CFR 46)
Built for human-subjects research
Guardian permission plus separate minor assent with configurable age-gating, legally-authorized-representative consent, and minor dissent (§46.408) a guardian cannot override.
k-anonymity
Re-identification protection on all analytics
Demographic breakdowns are suppressed unless a minimum respondent threshold (3) is met.
DICOM PS3.15
Medical-standard image de-identification
Scans cleaned to the PS3.15 Basic Confidentiality Profile; NIfTI and photo EXIF/GPS identifiers stripped automatically at upload.
A2P 10DLC
Carrier-compliant SMS outreach
A2P 10DLC SMS consent captured and retained as the authoritative record for text messaging.
One Platform, Not Ten Tools
Research programs typically stitch together half a dozen tools. DigitalCabinet replaces all of them.
REDCap / Qualtrics
Survey & data collection
Box / SharePoint
File storage & document management
DocuSign
eConsent & signature capture
Custom backend
Participant identity & tenant isolation
Mailchimp / manual outreach
Anonymous recontact & mass communications
IRB coordination tools
Built-in compliance framework
Data pipeline scripts
Structured export & analytics
DigitalCabinet
How It Works
1
You provide your program details
Your branding, your surveys, your consent language, and your study structure.
2
We configure and deploy your portal
A fully isolated instance mapped to your organization's private environment.
3
You launch
With a production-ready participant portal, optional clinician tooling, and a secure, compliant data backend.
Who This Is For
Academic medical centers running longitudinal patient cohorts
Biobanks building participant-facing data contribution programs
Disease foundations and advocacy organizations standing up research communities
Pharmaceutical and CRO teams managing participants across observational studies
Hospital networks running internal data collection programs
DigitalCabinet is built and operated by Ethlen, an Irish technology company. Organizations run their own fully isolated, branded registry on the platform; Trua is the participant portal built on the same infrastructure, giving individuals direct control over their own health data.