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  • Using AWS for Health Information Data Storage

    Digital Security and Trust | October 11, 2022
    In efforts to keep both RHI and Protected Health Information (PHI) secured, the university has signed a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Amazon to enable researchers at the university who work with S4 data (PHI and RHI) to use Amazon Web Services (AWS). Under Ohio State's Patient Information and HIPAA Policy, the vast majority of medical data used in research (and outside the electronic...

  • New Workday Training Tenant Available to All Users

    Richard Hunter | October 11, 2022
    A new Workday tenant is now available to all Ohio State Workday users for training and practice. Access in the training tenant will mirror access in production. All Ohio State Workday users have access to this training tenant; you do not need special security roles in order to use the training tenant. The tenant will be refreshed, or updated, from production every weekend, at minimum. The refresh...

  • Reporting 2.0 Simplifies Common BuckeyeLearn Reports for Managers

    Richard Hunter | October 11, 2022
    New Reporting 2.0 functionality in BuckeyeLearn allows managers to quickly view completed training information for their direct and indirect employees, covering many common training titles. Available reports include: Report = Support! [FY23], Institutional Data Policy 2022, and Digital Accessibility Policy 2022. All managers will be able to select Reporting 2.0 from BuckeyeLearn's menu and see...

  • Graduate Tuition Assistance Expenses to Post Oct. 18

    Richard Hunter | October 10, 2022
    Expenses related to the tuition assistance benefit for eligible graduate students (graduate fee authorizations or GFA) are posted during the ninth week of the semester. For Autumn 2022, expenses will post on Tuesday, 10/18. More information – including troubleshooting tips – about tuition assistance expenses is available in the Finance Considerations section of the Graduate Fee Authorization...

  • New Initiative to Create Institutional Definitions for Data Consistency and Clarity

    Alison Landefeld | October 4, 2022
    We use words like “student” and “employee” every day, but did you know that we don’t have standard definitions for these terms across the university and medical center? The Data Governance team is launching an initiative to standardize institutional definitions and is seeking assistance from colleagues across the university and medical center. Why is this important? For everyday use, it might not...

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