Low-Risk Data Approved Technologies (Public)

Low-Risk Data is data collected anonymously (does not include coded, anonymized), from public sources, from a source with no identifiers, or is de-identified data where the source is not a WVU Health System medical record. No personal identifiers can be included in these data sets, including IP address or medical record number. Any data set that is identifiable must not be classified as Low-Risk Data.

Important items to note for using Low-Risk Data:

  • Pursuant to the University Electronic Mail Policy, personal email must never be used to conduct University research.

  • Faculty and staff who are provided a University Device through their employment with WVU must use that device to conduct research; however, personal devices may be used by students for projects using Low-Risk Data provided the device meets the Bring Your Own Device Standard.

  • The definitions of Data Collection, Data Sharing, Data Transmission, and Data Storage can be found on the Approved Technologies for Research main article.

Icon Key: Approved Not Permitted Not Applicable

PRODUCT/METHOD

DATA COLLECTION

DATA SHARING

DATA TRANSMISSION

DATA STORAGE

In person via paper

Secure Fax

Paper via mail (e.g., USPS, FedEx, UPS)

Personal email

Personal phone

Faculty/staff personal device

Student personal device

Jabber

WVU Telephone

WVU Voicemail

Microsoft Teams (chat, SharePoint, calling)

WVU O365 Email

Microsoft OneDrive/SharePoint

MIX Email

MIX Google Drive

MIX Google Forms

WVU Personal Drive (e.g., J:)

WVU Network Drive (Common or Secure)

Qualtrics

FaceTime

WVU Zoom^

LiquidFiles

eCampus#

CloudResearch*

Cint*

Prolific*

Mturk*

Jumo%

SAS%

SPSS%

NVivo%

Atlas%

TranscribeMe^

Rev.com^

Health Sciences Center-specific technologies

PRODUCT/METHOD

DATA COLLECTION

DATA SHARING

DATA TRANSMISSION

DATA STORAGE

HSC O365 Email

HSC Teams (chat, SharePoint, calling)

HSC OneDrive

HSC SharePoint

HSC Qualtrics

REDCap

HSC Zoom^

HSC NextCloud

HSC Globus

HSC sFTP

SOLE#

HSC Secure Research Environment (HSC VDI, secure network drive with DLP)

HSC Network Drive

Forte (OnCore/eReg)

SOD patient access portal

 

 

#Product is only approved for collection of data from and sharing data with WVU students or faculty for academic purposes.

*Product is approved to collect data and pay human subject research participants. Additional approvals are required from WVU Procurement to use products for participant payment.

%Product is approved for data analytics use.

Applications/software (e.g., Skype, Box, Dropbox, Survey Monkey, and Wufoo) that have not been approved by the University should never be used to interact with patients/study participants. If a product is required for research and is not listed here, complete an IT Purchase Request. Review and approvals of such requests could cause delays. Please plan accordingly.