“The National Institutes of Health is aggregating and integrating scientific data across various enterprise data platforms to advance biomedical research. With that effort, researchers are encountering challenges that cloud-service technologies could address in the coming year.”
“Firstly, it is particularly difficult for researchers to link patient data for those who’ve participated in multiple research studies. The same NIH research subjects are often involved in other studies that could be used for correlational research. Researchers studying patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, for instance, could connect relevant data from the same participants or research studies…”
“Another challenge is studying rare diseases like pediatric cancer can be negatively impacted by disjointed data queries across multiple resources, Gregurick said. Given that time is of the essence for certain diseases, incorporating external research groups that have integrable data resources could further enhance NIH’s research capabilities, she added…”
“Finally, integrating data from multiple repositories and platforms is simply challenging…” Read the full article here.
Source: NIH Prioritizes Cloud Migration in 2020 IT Ecosystem Plan – By Faith Ryan, December 30, 2019. GovernmentCIO.
