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Establishment of an independent trust centre
A central, independent data trust office is currently being set up at the University of Oldenburg. The trust centre is intended to make a further service contribution to supporting data protection-compliant personal research, especially in the area of the School of Medicine, at the University of Oldenburg.
Among other things, the trust centre will provide software solutions that enable the systematic management of personal identifying data and declarations of consent. The independent trust centre is to perform the following specific tasks in particular:
- Development and operation of a system for digital consent management
- Development and operation of a system for maintaining digital patient lists
- Pseudonymisation service
- Guarantee of cross-institutional data linkability
- Contact point for exercising the rights of data subjects
- Doppler resolution
The illustration of the identity management infrastructure with the independent trust centre at the Oldenburg site shows an example and simplifies the planned interaction between hospitals, the University of Oldenburg and the independent trust centre in the transfer of medical data into the research context. The technical implementation of data flows and processes can vary depending on the project or study.
Standardised interfaces for local aspects of identity and consent management are provided for researchers and hospitals. Local tasks include, for example, the registration of study participants or the obtaining of informed consent from study participants by staff in the respective institutions. These interfaces should also enable standardised and systematised information on whether and which consents are stored for a study participant and in which context the data may be accessed for research purposes. Consent can be available both as broad informed consent and as specific informed consent.
The independent trustee organisation will only grant access to systems and data on the basis of a roles and rights system. Hospitals, university institutions, project partners and employees will only have access to data to which they are authorised. The systems are operated under appropriate security precautions in the University of Oldenburg's Data Centre. Medical data is not processed in the trust centre and the employees of the trust centre do not have access to research data.
Added value of the independent trust centre for the University of Oldenburg
- Standardised structures, processes and responsibilities in identity management for hospitals and researchers
- Technical support for the inclusion of study participants and consent management
- Digital storage and management of consent
- Processing and coordination of the exercise of data subject rights for research projects and institutions that use the trust centre
- Secure storage of digitised consents and personal identifying data in the university Data Centre
- Establishment of a high level of data protection when transferring medical data to research or collecting medical data for research purposes
- Creating transparency for study participants
- Establishment of a contact and information centre for the public