Data

Data Custodianship

Please view the Data Custodianship flowchart, available here.

Data Security

Data must not be stored on personal laptops or external hard drives/USBs. Please only store study data on secure hospital servers or internal non-mobile hospital computers, if data transfer is required encryption and a suitably secure service must be used.

Specific approval is required to take any individual level patient data off hospital premises, and data must be rendered non-identifiable.

REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure, web-based data capture and data management software tool designed for research purposes. REDCap is the SESLHD HREC's preferred data management software.

For SESLHD researchers, REDCap can be accessed via https://redcap.sesi.health.nsw.gov.au/ or by contacting SESLHD-REDCap-admin@health.nsw.gov.au. Data collected by REDCap is stored on SESLHD servers and has undergone security testing.

Please see the Protocol template on the Guidelines, Forms & Templates page.