Research Data Services

Empowering research with updated data sets and comprehensive data collection tools

Announcements

March, 2024 – The Spring 2024 REDCap Town Hall will be held Thursday, April 18, 3 pm- 4 pm. Click here to register for the Zoom webinar.

March, 2024 – The Spring 2024 eRAP Town Hall will take place Thursday, May 2, 3 pm – 4 pm. Click here to register for the Zoom webinar.

Previous Announcements:  

February 22, 2024: Today’s scheduled downtime is complete, and REDCap has been successfully upgraded to v14.0.13. For a description of features, improvements, and changes included in the latest release, see this link 

REDCAP SCHEDULED DOWNTIME AND UPGRADEREDCap will be unavailable during a scheduled downtime on Thursday February 22 from 6pm-11pm for an upgrade to version 14. This will affect all REDCap users from Icahn School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Health System, including external collaborators, mobile app users, API users, survey participants. 

PLEASE NOTE: As part of the upgrade to REDCap version 14, the now unsupported Multilingual external module will no longer function after February 22, 2024. While we have separately reached out to contacts of all REDCap projects that potentially use this external module, if you have any questions about this please contact REDCap support

January, 2024: This is a reminder for existing REDCap projects: For 2023, payment of the $100 fee for projects older than 90 days is is due by January 31, 2024.

You can check here to lookup your REDCap Project ID (PID) (Choose ‘ALL” in the Displaying Record dropdown box to see all records.) If your PID is not findable, please enter project information and a fund number if required at this link. (Please note: MD student, hospital QI and hospital operations projects paid directly by MSHS do not require a fund number).

After you submit your project information, you will be emailed a custom link with a return code. To later enter or update the fund number or other project information, you must use the custom link with the return code that was sent to your email. 

(If your PID is marked as NOT PAID for 2023, you must use the custom link with the return code that was sent to your email when the survey was first entered to enter any missing project information and a fund number if required. Please contact us if you have any questions.)

Other notes:

  • For more details please see the section “Submitting Fund Numbers for REDCap Projects” on our website.
  • For people who oversee payment for more than 10 REDCap projects, please contact us and we will provide a method for collecting lists of project IDs and fund numbers.

October, 2023 – On behalf of Dean Patricia Kovatch, we invite you to join the whole Scientific Computing and Data team for an in-person Open House, Monday October 23, 12-1 pm, Goldwurm Auditorium at the Icahn Medical Institute (1st Floor). Coffee, tea, cookies and cake will be provided.

October, 2023 – The Fall 2023 eRAP Town Hall will take place Wednesday, October 25, 2 pm – 3 pm. This will be a hybrid session located in Hess CSM Seminar Room A (2nd Floor) and on Zoom webinar.

September, 2023 – The Fall 2023 REDCap Town Hall will take place Monday, October 23, 3 pm- 4 pm. This will be a hybrid session located in Goldwurm Auditorium and on Zoom webinar. 

September, 2023 – A REDCap Essentials Training session for all users of REDCap will be offered on Thursday, October 12th from 1 – 2 pm (EST). This session is intended to answer many of the high level questions we receive on a regular basis in the REDCap Service Desk and will cover: REDCap Account Management for internal and external collaborators; Development vs Production; Project Ownership and User Rights; and Orphaned projects and transferring ownership. 

 

Research Tools

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eRAP

The Electronic Research Application Portal Rapid Database Generator (eRAP RDG) is a web-based interactive tool for data entry and reporting. Rapidly develop custom databases for longitudinal single and multi-site studies.

About eRAP | Open Ticket

REDCap

Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases, providing audit trails for tracking data manipulation, user activity, and seamless data downloads.

About REDCap | Open Ticket

Data Services

Select data to drive or supplement your research.

Data Ark: Data Commons

Data Ark: Data Commons consists of seven high-quality data sets. Public (restricted and unrestricted) and Sinai-generated data sets are managed, processed and combined in a way that optimizes the power, pace and relevance of our science.

About Data Ark | Contact Team

HADatAc

The Human-Aware Data Acquisition (HADatAc) combines acquisitions of data and metadata to logically connect to data, enabling data identification and optimizing data queries. Data is composed of scientific measurements supporting computational scientific activities.

About HADatAc | Open Ticket

HHEAR

The Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource (HHEAR) data center is a continuation of the CHEAR Data Center to include health outcomes at all ages. The public data advances our knowledge of the effects of environmental exposures on human health throughout life.

About HHEAR | Open Ticket

Acknowledge Mount Sinai in Your Work

Utilizing research services requires acknowledgements of support by NIH in your publications. To assist, we have provided exact wording of acknowledgements required by NIH for your use.

Supported by grant UL1TR004419 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health.

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