“Over the years, the Department of Veterans Affairs has made substantial investments in collecting and providing health and genomic data for VA researchers, but its Austin, Texas, Information and Technology Center’s limited storage space and computing power is restricting the usefulness of that data.”
“Now the VA wants to expand access to a broader research community with the VA Data Commons (VADC), a secure cloud-based data resource.”
“VA is partnering with the University of Chicago on the Data Commons software-as-a-service platform. VADC will provide an interoperable resource for researchers accessing de-identified electronic medical records and genomic data. It features computing infrastructure, co-located data and commonly used software services, tools, and apps for managing, analyzing and sharing data.”
“The university will host and provide access to VADC, so researchers can manage, analyze, synchronize and share clinical data from the VA corporate data warehouse, genomic data from the VA’s Million Veterans Program and other designated VA data sources.”
“VADC will be operable in multiple cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA readies cloud-based data platform – August 24, 2021. GCN.
