“The National Institutes of Health face the challenge of brokering data-use agreements with hospitals as they develop a COVID-19 patient data management platform for researchers. To help with that process, NIH has launched the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) for collection and analysis of clinical, laboratory and diagnostic data from health-care institutions.”
“Built on the Palantir Foundry platform NIH has used for more than three years for internal research, N3C will support universities and grantees studying coronavirus health risk factors and treatments.”
“But NIH has never attempted anything like N3C. And the platform is only as good as the data it contains — data obtained through legal agreements that will take through the end of 2020 to secure, according to a person familiar with the project.”
“Of the 62 sites in the Clinical and Translational Sciences Awards (CTSA) program — funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) that also funds N3C — 37 have already signed data-use agreements, the person said. And, of those, three or four have begun sharing data with N3C since Palantir won the $2.03 million task order on its existing NIH contract May 4…” Read the full article here.
Source: NIH launches coronavirus research platform, but hospital data sharing could take time – By Dave Nyczepir, June 19, 2020. FedScoop.
