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JISC announces support for govt. recommendations for peer review process changes

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JISC  (Joint Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems Com­mit­tee) in the U.K. is sup­port­ing an open peer review process.  It should be more trans­par­ent and review­ers should be trained.  JISC also rec­om­mends the shar­ing of data in the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity, and there is men­tion in this brief of the Dryad project to facil­i­tate this shar­ing of data in a repos­i­tory.
“The rec­om­men­da­tions came out of a House of Com­mons Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy
Com­mit­tee report that also urged that researchers make their sci­en­tific data
pub­licly avail­able, and that review­ers have for­mal training.”

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, Aug. 2, 2011.

Cloud data storage for medical records — bad idea

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“Top 10 list rejects cloud for clin­i­cal data

By George Miller

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The debate con­tin­ues over whether cloud plat­forms can secure highly sen­si­tive clin­i­cal trial data and health records. But eWeek makes no bones about its posi­tion in a top 10 list of why it’s a bad idea to store such records up there.

The 11-slide pre­sen­ta­tion encap­su­lates both well-known and less-well-known argu­ments for data stor­age via local ser­vices rather than an Internet-based, on-demand sys­tem. Among them: the highly sen­si­tive nature of the data makes it a hacker tar­get from the get-go.

Trust is a fac­tor that runs through­out the list: trust in the cloud ser­vice provider that it can and will restrict access to the barest min­i­mum, that it truly de-personalizes data, and even that it will still be in exis­tence tomorrow.

A dis­clo­sure state­ment con­cern­ing source mate­r­ial explains the anti-cloud bias. But the list remains a use­ful one.

- here’s the slide show

Related Arti­cles:
Experts: Beware of breaches in cloud com­put­ing
Cloud experts agree: choose care­fully”

Source: Fierce­Biotech IT [editors@fiercebiotechit.com] 8.23.10