Policies

Acknowledgement Statement

Please include the following statement in the acknowledgements section for any publications stemming from projects that used the core:

"We acknowledge use of the Research, Education, Administration, and Development of Biomedical Informatics (READi) Core at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). READi is supported by funding from the NIH/NIGMS (U54 GM115458, Great Plains IDeA-CTR), the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI, CDRN-1306-04631), the Nebraska Research Initiative, and the UNMC Vice Chancellor for Research Office. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of these sponsors."


Core Facility Resource Statement

Please use the following statement within the facilities and resources document for any application that proposes the use of this core as part of the research plan:

 "The Research, Education, Administration, and Development of Biomedical Informatics (READi) Core is the health informatics operations core for UNMC, providing cutting-edge clinical informatics resources to support and advance clinical translational research, public health research, clinical care, and the development of an exceptional clinical informatics workforce. "


Data Management and Sharing

Faculty and staff responsible for development, maintenance and use of READi resources, including CRANE, the PCORnet CDM, OMOP, Children’s Nebraska and Nebraska Medicine EHR, and affiliated registries, will be granted access upon completion of all requirements according to the requirements of their job descriptions.

All others must complete a formal application (link to application here) which will include:

READi Director and Deputy Directors will review each application in consideration of READi, VCR, NM, and/or Children’s policies related to the level of identified data included in the requested data mart. Only after all applicable requirements are met will access be granted and/or data will be released. Notification of access or data release will include a version of the message below:

"Your data has been reviewed and is available in a secure [release medium*] here: [link]. As a reminder, this data must be stored on a UNMC-managed device in compliance with UNMC Policy 6045 (Privacy, Confidentiality and Information Security) and UNMC Policy 6051 (Computer Use and Electronic Information Security). If you have questions about this or your data, please reach out."

Release mediums will vary based on project needs including study type and data refresh frequency. Only HIPAA-compliant, UNMC IT/IS-approved mediums will be used to release data (e.g. REDCap, SharePoint, PowerBI, Report within Epic).

Access to the system is limited to UNMC faculty or their designees who have completed CITI training and are in compliance with UNMC competency training, which includes HIPAA and Information Security Awareness training. Access to identified patient data requires IRB approval. The data release is through an honest broker for qualified faculty.

Protected Health Information (PHI) is information that is very specific to the individual such as birth date, telephone number, and social security number, that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was intended to protect, so as to protect individual patient confidentiality.

All PHI in paper and electronic form must be transported and stored in a secure manner to safeguard it against improper disclosure and/or loss.