Associate Professor Takako Takai-Igarashi, and her colleagues published a new article about security control in integrated biobank on BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

This article is focused on Tohoku Medical Megabank Project's efforts in addressing security problems involved in data sharing to ensure donor privacy, such as genome data which should be protected. To protect privacy, the Tohoku Medical Megabank (TMM) data sharing policy was established.

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Article

Title: Security controls in an integrated Biobank to protect privacy in data sharing: rationale and study design

Authors: Takako Takai-Igarashi, Kengo Kinoshita, Masao Nagasaki, Soichi Ogishima, Naoki Nakamura,Sachiko Nagase, Satoshi Nagaie, Tomo Saito, Fuji Nagami, Naoko Minegishi, Yoichi Suzuki, Kichiya Suzuki, Hiroaki Hashizume, Shinichi Kuriyama, Atsushi Hozawa, Nobuo Yaegashi, Shigeo Kure, Gen Tamiya, Yoshio Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Tanaka and Masayuki Yamamoto

Published journal: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Published date: 06 July 2017

DOI: 10.1186/s12911-017-0494-5