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OHSRP Newsletter - January 2023
Dear Research Community,
PROTECT IS LIVE! After many months of planning and hard work, we finally flipped the switch and launched our new electronic IRB submission system. Overall, I am extremely happy with system performance. With the research community's assistance, we continue to identify a few bugs which are being addressed during this initial system stabilization phase. I greatly appreciate everyone’s patience throughout the entire process, and the assistance of the
many members of the research teams that chipped in to help us with design and testing.
We will be going live on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, inside the NIH firewall. As you know, two issues impacted our timeline. Below it is explained how they have been addressed. As part of the implementation process for any new software system at NIH, an in depth security scan is performed by the NIH Information Security team. Through this process, security issues were brought to light. Many of these issues have been addressed by Huron. For those that haven’t, a plan to mitigate these issues was presented by Huron and accepted by the Clinical Center and OD ISSO. We are permitted to go live INSIDE the fire wall in January. This will only impact the ability of external users (our unaffiliated IRB members and non-NIH sites) to access the system. Huron is currently working to address the issues keeping us from going outside the firewall. Once this is complete, our goal is to go outside the firewall in Spring 2023.