Data Sharing

CMS Data (Re-Use)

UCSF has a 20% sample of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Restricted Identifiable Files (RIF) available to UCSF investigators for re-use. These data are hosted on UCSF RAE secure servers and can only be accessed after completing a reuse application with CMS. Contact SOM Tech for help filing a reuse application.

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Dryad (formerly Dash)

Self-service online public data repository that allows researchers to:

Publish and share research data using any file format
Get a permanent DOI for their data
Search for and download public research data sets
Meet funder and publisher requirements for data sharing

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Free for UCSF Community

Research Specialist available

External / Non-UCSF Collaborations sharing Clinical Data

If you are working with an external / non-UCSF partner and you want to share data from the electronic health record (EHR), you will need an appropriate data sharing contract that is executed with your non-UCSF partner. You may also need a security review if data will be transferred.

Talk with a consultant who is knowledgeable about the latest UCSF data sharing requirements
Work with the UCSF Division of Industry Contracts for the data sharing contract (contact: [email protected])
UCSF de-identified EHR data are considered UCSF Intellectual Property and are subject to HIPAA regulations. Read more on data de-identification.
Read more on how UCSF supports secure data-sharing partnerships

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Library Data Science Initiative

Workshops, programs and expertise/office hours in:

Finding, Managing & Sharing Data
Statistics, Bioinformatics and Genomics
Programming in R, Python and more
Data Visualization with Tableau

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Free for UCSF Community

Research Specialist available

Research Analysis Environment (RAE)

Formerly known as MyResearch, RAE offers secure hosting for sensitive data with web-based management and collaboration tools including support for study-specific large datasets and AWS resource options.

View, manipulate, and save data entirely in a protected environment without storing files on personal computers
Free access to research software applications, such as SAS, Stata, SPSS, R, TreeAge, Atlas.ti, MS Office, and Matlab - see full list
Collaboration tools, such as SharePoint, facilitate the conduct of multi-site research studies

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Free up to 10GB/month for UCSF PIs