All posts tagged SIRO

Open Data is here so how do we do it securely?

Security and research information is a hot topic right now for a number of reasons, not least the transparency agenda and the desire, quite rightly, to be as open as possible about data relating to the conditions and outcomes of clinical trials. However the information security of research data more generally has always been an… Read More

To be a fox, or to be a hedgehog?

I am reading Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise, and a thought struck me about his categorisation of those that can make good forecasts and those that would be best leaving it to luck. He proposes that there are two types of people who forecast; the Hedgehogs amongst us are specialized people, often having… Read More

Implementing Information Governance and Security – A Piece of Cake

The National Institute for Clinical Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) is the clinical research delivery arm of the Department of Health. Today the organisation is governed through around 70 hosting contracts across the NHS, in April 2014 this will reduce to 15 as the CRN implements a transition programme that will simplify the structures… Read More