Automating the Compliance of Health Research with Virtual Research Desktop (VRD)
August 20, 2020 @ 12 p.m.
Secure computing and storage needs for health research data is a constant challenge. Data stewards and researchers handling protected health information (PHI) are required to adhere to a broad range of policies and regulations, including federal HIPAA regulations, the California Medical Information Act (CMIA), and UCSD Health policies. The current pandemic has also led to more PHI use in clinical research. Additionally, recent events involving ransoming of non-PHI biomedical research have highlighted the need to secure any biomedical data asset, even if not required from a regulatory standpoint. In 2018, ACTRI and UCSD Health System Information Services (HS IS) developed the UCSD Health Secure Cloud for Clinical Research and the UCSD Virtual Research Desktop (VRD) service, which provides a unified, secure platform for scalable research computing and storage needs. In 2019, the service, initially an on-premises solution, was transitioned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) with VRDs as AWS WorkSpaces with access to serverless services ranging from clinical natural language processing to data analysis platforms (AWS SageMaker) and scalable map-reduce compute capability (AWS Elastic Map-Reduce). We will describe our VRD journey from an on-premise solution to a cloud-native solution, leveraging AWS cloud-scale computing.
Captioning coming soon.
Panelists:
- Andrew Greaves, Enterprise Cloud Architect, UC San Diego Health
- Jit Bhattacharya, CTO/Founder, Xpertech Solutions
- Michael Hogarth, MD, FACP, FACMI, UC San Diego Health Clinical Research Information Officer (CRIO) Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Dept. of Medicine
- Nguyen Trieu, Associate Director, Biomedical Informatics, UC San Diego Health
Presentation slides here.
