Getting Started

To begin a collaboration, or to find out if our services meet your needs, complete our resource request form (external link). We will review your responses and contact you via email to further discuss your project and/or provide a budget.

Data Access

1. Complete compliance requirements. Access to data is dependent on compliance with regulations from data providers

   1. Data use agreement(s)

   2. DPHS Training Requirements

   3. IRB approval

   4. Payment of fees (see DataShare Fees and FAQs)

2. Obtain DPHS-PACE (see Getting FISMA-DPHS PACE Access)

3. DPHS-PACE Orientation (see Prerequisites for DataShare FISMA-PACE Orientation)

4. Please complete the Qualtrics Survey (external link) to request access to any DataShare asset.

More Resources

See the following pages for more information.

• Getting FISMA-DPHS PACE Access

• Cell Size Suppression Requirements

• Data Deprovisioning and Destruction

• Regulatory Links

• How to Access A Study's DataShare REDCap Record

Data Asset Specific Requirements

See the following data asset overviews, Governance section.

• American Hospital Association (AHA) Survey

• Get With the Guidelines–Heart Failure (GWTG-HF) Registry

• https://duke.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PD/pages/33588115

• Jackson Heart Study (JHS)

• Medicare

• NC Medicaid

• Reference File Library - RefLib

• SEER-Medicare Linked Database