Participate: Tracks 2 and 3

To participate in Tracks 2 and 3, teams are required to register, sign the n2c2 Rules of Conduct, and sign Data Use Agreements for MIMIC (Track 2 Subtasks A–C, Track 3) and for the University of Washington (Track 2 Subtasks B and C). See below for details on each DUA.

MIMIC DUA (Track 2 Subtasks A–C, Track 3)

You must assemble and submit a PDF demonstrating that you have both of the following:

  • A credentialed account on the PhysioNet website
  • An approved DUA associated with the MIMIC-III Clinical Database (v1.4)

In 2019, PhysioNet changed their credentialing system, and the profile views differ for pre-2019 and post-2019 PhysioNet accounts. Where applicable, the instructions below differentiate between these account vintages.

Steps

  1. Log in to PhysioNet with your email and password.
  2. On the top right corner, you will see your profile name with a dropdown menu.
  3. Go into the Settings page.
  4. Capture credentialing information:
    1. If you were credentialed pre-2019, go to Emails and capture a screenshot that includes both your username and email address to include in a PDF for upload.
      PhysioNet Profile: Settings: Edit Emails
    2. Then go to Credentialing and capture a screenshot that includes both your username and the credentialing date to include in a PDF for upload.
      PhysioNet Profile: Settings: Credentialing page pre-2019
    3. If you were credentialed post-2019, your Credentialing page will include a View my applications link, which will open your My Credentialing Applications page. Take a screenshot of the My Credentialing Applications page to include in a PDF for upload.
      PhysioNet Profile: Settings: Credentialing page post-2019
      example PhysioNet "My Credentialing Applications" page
  5. Return to the Settings page, then Agreements.
    If you were credentialed pre-2019, the Agreements page may be empty. To add MIMIC-III, perform the following:
    1. Go to: https://physionet.org/content/mimiciii/1.4/
    2. Click “sign the data use agreement” at the bottom of the screen
    3. (Re)submit the MIMIC-III agreement
    4. Return to the Agreements page and confirm MIMIC-III is included
      PhysioNet Settings: Agreements page
  6. Locate the MIMIC-III Clinical Database (v4) in the Projects column and click on View corresponding to it.
  7. A new tab opens with the MIMIC-III DUA signed for the dataset. Take a screenshot of the page to include in a PDF for upload.
    PhysioNet DUA 1.5.0, MIMIC-III v1.4 DUA
  8. Create a PDF of your screenshots to show:
    1. Your credentialed account on the PhysioNet website
    2. Your approved DUA associated with the MIMIC-III Clinical Database (v1.4)

The following examples show what your PDF will look like, depending whether you were credentialed before or after 2019:

After your MIMIC access has been confirmed and your entire team has been finalized and approved for Track 2, you will be able to download the Social History Annotation Corpus (SHAC) Guidelines immediately, and to participate in Subtask A (Track 2A): Extraction.

For your team to participate in Subtasks B and/or C (Track 2B and/or Track 2C), continue through the steps of completing the UW DUA.

University of Washington DUA (Track 2 Subtasks B and C)

Access to University of Washington (UW) data requires completion of the UW DUA. Download the PDF and complete pages 1 and 5. You may either a) use Adobe Acrobat to complete/sign the form electronically or b) print a hard-copy, complete/sign it by hand, and scan it. Be sure you have completed all of the following items:

  1. Your name in the Recipient space at the top of page 1
  2. Your Signature on page 5
  3. Your Name on page 5
  4. Your Title on page 5 (this is your job title such as Associate Professor or Student, not your prefix such as Ms. or Dr.)
  5. The current Date on page 5

Upload the completed PDF and click the Submit button.

After the UW DUA has been approved for everyone on your team, you will be able to participate in Subtasks B and C (Tracks 2B and 2C): Generalizability and Learning Transfer.