Creating an NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan

Feinberg School of Medicine Information Technology maintains a number of policies affecting use and storage of data, as well as data security. The stipulations of these policies are intended to protect patient privacy and confidentiality, and can have an effect on future storage and sharing of data, as well as how much and what types of data might be shareable per the NIH's data-sharing requirements. Policies to be aware of include:

• FSM IT's general Policies page
• FSM IT's Data Storage Policy
• FSM IT's Information Security Policies
• FSM IT's Data Security Plans for Information Used in Clinical Research
• The Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) also maintains Data Security & Privacy policies