Patent ID: 8626764

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for storing, organizing and/or manipulating cohort based information associated with a research study, the method comprising: a processor receiving project information associated with a first project at an interface of a computer database environment, the project information associated with the first project including cohort information associated with at least one cohort of the first project and patient information associated with members of the at least one cohort of the first project, wherein the patient information is one or more of: name, address, phone number, age, and condition clinical data; generating a first virtual project drawer associated with the first project to be stored in the computer database environment, the first virtual project drawer including project information associated with the first project, at least one cohort file and/or at least two cohort member files, receiving project information associated with a second project at the interface of the computer database environment, the project information associated with the second project including cohort information associated with at least one cohort of the second project and patient information associated with members of the at least one cohort of the second project; generating a second virtual project drawer associated with the second project to be stored in the computer database environment, the second virtual project drawer including the project information associated with the second project, at least one cohort file and/or at least two cohort member files; generating a query to locate project information, one or more cohort information and patient information associated with one or more of the first and second projects; searching one or more of the first and second project drawers according to the generated query so as to locate results therein that may be relevant to the research study; and generating a report including the located results, wherein the generated report provides project information, one or more cohort information and patient information associated with one or more of the first and second projects.