BHRIC

The Biomedical Health Research Informatics Core (BHRIC) is an isolated and independently secured infrastructure managed by the Office of Information Technology (OIT) at Florida Atlantic University. The primary purpose of the BHRIC is to support biomedical, social science or health-related researchers throughout Florida Atlantic University – particularly researchers performing biomedical research, translational research, and clinical research that may contain ePHI, as part of their data. The BHRIC provides 60TB of collaborative data storage replicated between the Boca Raton and Jupiter Campuses, highly available Virtual Desktop, Virtual Server, and Collaborative Research Environments. Services provided on the BHRIC include VDI, SAS, SPSS, MATLAB, and user and group drive shares.

Services:

• Windows 11 Virtual Desktop Services
• 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services Terminal Services
• Encrypted Group Drives
• Encrypted User Home Directories
• Encrypted Backups and Replication

Transcription Services

The College of Nursing has partnered with a transcription service company (Ditto Transcripts) for performing transcription which is safe, secure and HIPAA compliant.

Instructions | Instructions for Ditto Transcripts

Transcription Service | Required service for transcription

Cost | Prices for the the transcription service

Transcription Rate Categories

Category A: Single person interview or standard one on one interview recorded in digital format.

Category B: Interviews with a total of 3 people, audio with significant noise in the background, and any audio that has voices that are difficult to understand (i.e. poor recording, soft voices, etc.)

Category C: Any audio with four or more speakers; presentations dealing with highly scientific terminology or very thick accents; and panel discussions, focus groups, conference calls, or seminars with multiple participants. Please call for an accurate quote. These are very hard to determine without hearing the actual audio.

Research Policies

Research Data Security | View data security policies

FAU Sponsered Programs | List all the sponsored research programs

FAU Research Integrity | Explains about university research polocies

HIPAA and Research | HIPAA training and resources

IRB | Required institutional review boards

Support for Proposals and Grants | List all the resources for getting proposals and grants

Research Misconduct | The research misconduct policy

Research Data Abbreviations | View common research abbreviations

Acceptable Use of Technology Resources | View policies about using technical resources

Compliance Matrix

Please see the image below that clarifies what medium can/should be used for what kind of data:

✔ Orange check mark: Acceptable but not Recommended. These devices should be used to work with sensitive data but not store sensitive data. Do not use for long term storage.

If you are working with content checked marked orange, please email Jony Singh (jsingh@health.fau.edu)

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) For Data Management Plan (DMP)

Policy And Procedures To Assist Faculty (And Doctoral Students) With The Requesting Of A Data Management Plan

1. The Project PI researcher (or their assistant) will receive email correspondence from the designated point of contact within ONRS, to complete a Sensitive Data Questionnaire through REDCap. The link to the survey is also available below:

   nIT Sensitive Data Survey (click me)

   • In the RedCap survey, the project PI researcher (or their assistant) will upload their most current IRB protocol.
2. After the Sensitive Data Questionnaire has been submitted and received by nIT, a meeting will be scheduled between the researcher and the nIT department to discuss the specifics of the research project relative to data management.
3. After the meeting, the nIT department will draft an individualized DMP, which will be specific to the study protocol.
   • The turn-around time for the DMP ranges from 1-10 business days from the date of the first meeting.
   • Additional meetings may be necessary in order to clarify any information that was not covered in the first meeting.
   • As an alternative to additional meetings, clarification can be conducted through email correspondence between the nIT department and the PI researcher.
4. Once the DMP has been approved and signed by the nIT director, it will be emailed to the Project PI researcher for them to upload to their IRBNet project.
   • The researcher can review the final version and communicate suggestions, regarding changes for the DMP to the nIT director.