{"id":10710,"date":"2022-03-25T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1383238"},"modified":"2022-03-25T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T13:00:15","slug":"new-us-rules-on-sharing-healthcare-research-data-are-a-giant-leap-for-open-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=10710","title":{"rendered":"New US rules on sharing healthcare research data are a giant leap for open science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Starting on Jan. 25, 2023, many of the 2,500 institutions and 300,000 researchers that the U.S. National Institutes of Health<\/a> supports will need to provide a formal, detailed plan for publicly sharing the data generated by their research. For many in the scientific community, this new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy<\/a> sounds like a no-brainer.<\/p>\n

The incredibly quick development of rapid tests and vaccines for COVID-19 demonstrate the success that can follow the open sharing of data within the research community. The importance and impact of that data even drove a White House Executive Order<\/a> mandating that \u201cthe heads of all executive departments and agencies\u201d share \u201cCOVID-19-related data\u201d publicly last year.<\/p>\n

I am the Director of the Rochester Institute of Technology\u2019s Open Programs Office. At [email protected]<\/span><\/a>, my colleagues and I work with faculty and researchers to help them openly share their research and data in a manner that provides others the rights to access, reuse and redistribute that work with as few barriers or restrictions a possible. In the sciences, these practices are often referred to as open data and open science.<\/p>\n

The journal Nature has called the impact of the NIH\u2019s new data management policy \u201cseismic,\u201d saying that it could potentially create a \u201cglobal standard\u201d for data sharing<\/a>. This type of data sharing is likely to produce many benefits to science, but there also are some concerns over how researchers will meet the new requirements.<\/p>\n

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