Privacy & Security Issues

Security is a vital concern for I-THINK Research. All registries and databases:

• Are in compliance with government privacy laws, as well as with the privacy and confidential policies of Lawson Health Research Institute, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph's Health Care, London
• Are secure, reliable, isolated from other databases and hosted behind the Lawson firewall on a server that employs a certificate and encrypted transmission of data
• Are backed-up nightly
• Include an audit trail that tracks any changes made to records
• Include data that is cleaned and de-identified before being utilized for research purposes
• Permit only authorized people to work with the research data