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Towards a Data Sharing Culture

By clock on September 1, 2008.

Towards a Data Sharing Culture: Recommendations for Leadership from Academic Health Centers:

Sharing biomedical research and health care data is important but difficult. Recognizing this, many initiatives facilitate, fund, request, or require researchers to share their data [1-5]. These initiatives address the technical aspects of data sharing, but rarely focus on incentives for key stakeholders [6]. Academic health centers (AHCs) have a critical role in enabling, encouraging, and rewarding data sharing. The leaders of medical schools and academic-affiliated hospitals can play a unique role in supporting this transformation of the research enterprise. We propose that AHCs can and should lead the transition towards a culture of biomedical data sharing.

The benefits of data sharing and reuse have been widely reported. We summarize them here, from the perspective of an AHC....

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