gms | German Medical Science

Gesundheit – gemeinsam. Kooperationstagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialmedizin und Prävention (DGSMP), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Soziologie (DGMS) und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Public Health (DGPH)

08.09. - 13.09.2024, Dresden

Article

Send article

Handling Complexity in Decentralized Research Networks: The Data Sharing Framework Allowlist Management Application

Meeting Abstract

Search Medline for

  • Simon Tobias Schweizer - GECKO Institut für Medizin, Informatik und Ökonomie, Hochschule Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
  • Hauke Hund - GECKO Institut für Medizin, Informatik und Ökonomie, Hochschule Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
  • Maximilian Kurscheidt - GECKO Institut für Medizin, Informatik und Ökonomie, Hochschule Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
  • Christoph Zilske - GECKO Institut für Medizin, Informatik und Ökonomie, Hochschule Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
  • Jan Böhringer - GECKO Institut für Medizin, Informatik und Ökonomie, Hochschule Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
  • Christian Fegeler - GECKO Institut für Medizin, Informatik und Ökonomie, Hochschule Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany

Gesundheit – gemeinsam. Kooperationstagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialmedizin und Prävention (DGSMP), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Soziologie (DGMS) und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Public Health (DGPH). Dresden, 08.-13.09.2024. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2024. DocAbstr. 1085

doi: 10.3205/24gmds047, urn:nbn:de:0183-24gmds0476

Published: September 6, 2024

© 2024 Schweizer et al.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Outline

Text

Introduction: With the establishment of the Data Sharing Framework (DSF) as a distributed business process engine in German research networks, it is becoming increasingly important to coordinate authentication, authorization, and role information between peer-to-peer network components. This information is provided in the form of an allowlist. This paper presents a concept and implementation of an Allowlist Management Application.

State of the art: In research networks using the DSF, allowlists were initially generated manually.

Concept: The Allowlist Management Application provides comprehensive tool support for the participating organizations and the administrators of the Allowlist Management Application. It automates the process of creating and distributing allowlists and additionally reduces errors associated with manual entries. In addition, security is improved through extensive validation of entries and enforcing review of requested changes by implementing a four-eyes principle.

Implementation: Our implementation serves as a preliminary development for the complete automation of onboarding and allowlist management processes using established frontend and backend frameworks. The application has been deployed in the Medical Informatics Initiative and the Network University Medicine with over 40 participating organizations.

Lessons learned: We learned the need for user guidance, unstructured communication in a structured tool, generalizability, and checks to ensure that the tool's outputs have actually been applied.

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

The authors declare that an ethics committee vote is not required.