Compliant Self Service Access to Secondary Use Clinical Data at Stanford Medicine

TL;DR

This paper describes STARR, a secure ecosystem at Stanford that provides researchers with compliant, self-service access to detailed clinical data for diverse research purposes, supporting various research needs.

Contribution

It introduces the evolution of STARR tools enabling self-service access to clinical data while ensuring compliance with regulations and rules.

Findings

Implementation of self-service data access tools

Framework for regulatory compliance in data sharing

Support for diverse research applications

Abstract

STARR (STAnford Research Repository) is a clinical research support ecosystem that supports basic science research, population health research and translational research at Stanford University. STARR consists of raw and analysis ready multi-modal data, and tools for cohort analysis and self service data access. STARR data is accessible on secure shared computing systems for ad hoc analysis. Also present is a suite of services on top of STARR, that allow researchers access to complex purpose built data cuts, common data models and software solutions. This manuscript is a research resource description and describes the evolution of STARR Tools that are used to offer self-service access to detailed clinical data for research purposes to researchers at Stanford Medicine, along with a framework used to ensure that data acquired via the self-service tools is handled in compliance with all applicable regulations and rules.