NUKLEUS RPA (Resource Utilization and Performance Assessment Unit, Aufwands- und Leistungserfassungseinheit) [AP6]

The Resource Utilization and Performance Assessment Unit (RPA) represents one of the work packages of the Network University Medicine (NUM) subproject NUM Clinical Epidemiology and Study Plattform (NUKLEUS) and has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology  and Space (BMFTR) since July 2025. Prof. Dr. Janne Vehreschild is the scientific lead of RPA and Dr. Susana Nunes de Miranda coordinates the operational level, where the RPA has been divided into two teams. The Accounting Team is led by Dr. Susana Nunes de Miranda, with Chin ‘Branson’ Huang Lee, Markus Katharina Brechtel, and Patricia Wagner beeing part of the team. The Lighthouse Team is led by Dr. Meta Bönniger, with Samia Goraya, and ‘Branson’ Chin Huang Lee belonging to the team.

During the current NUM 3.0 funding phase, the NUKLEUS RPA continues and optimizes the tasks of the NUKLEUS 2.0 Interaction Unit (ICU) Accounting Unit. These include 1) transparent cost calculation of case fees and infrastructure services using our new developed software tool NUM Study Planner, in order to enable a more efficient planning of new studies, 2) timely execution of productive or virtual accounting runs using our developed generic Accounting Tool, enabling an accurate validation of current study achievements, 3) transparent measurement of the quality and performance attained by the participating study centres, based on defined quality and performance indicators, and 4) display of the accounting and performance results using our new developed web interface NUM Lighthouse, in order to ensure a timely insight and regular monitoring of study achievement results by the respective study centres and project coordination.