What if my research project proposal involves use of data already on the server (i.e., data reuse), rather than “new” data that I had directly acquired?
A6. Each federal dataset residing on the HSRDC server is governed by a data use agreement (DUA), which is a legal contract executed between an LDI Principal Investigator and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The DUAs are strict in terms on the research purposes for which the Federal data can and cannot be used. Individual HSRDC investigators can not authorize reuse of their data for new projects. Instead, reuse of CMS data must be approved by CMS through a formal data reuse agreement (http://www.resdac.umn.edu/Medicare/requesting_data_RIF_ReUse.asp).
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