Hi David - AWS has HIPPA approved servers. We can consider that. http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/04/06/whitepaper-hipaa/
I will need to check with my Compliance team on this on co-operation, will get back soon. Regards, Taposh D. Roy Health Data Lead Decision Support Team Kaiser Permanente Program Office 1950 Franklin Street, 17th Floor Oakland, California 94588 510-987-4121 (Office) 510-206-1633 (cell) NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are prohibited from sharing, copying, or otherwise using or disclosing its contents. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments without reading, forwarding or saving them. Thank you. From: David Donohue <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 03/09/2015 01:17 PM Subject: Re: cTAKES and UMLS web service Sent by: [email protected] @Jay Agreed cloud hosting is the way to go. What advantages do you see with Project Atomic over others like PaaS? @Taposh So kind of you to offer to help with hosting. Let's collaborate! Considerations would be licensing and also cost. Is anyone aware of any special licensing considerations that would apply if we were to host cTAKES (and UMLS) as a public web service? I just reread the cTAKES and UMLS license agreements. I am no legal expert but I did not see anything to prohibit this. Would we need to issue API keys to ascertain that users had signed off on our (Apache + UMLS) terms? I am profoundly ignorant of cTAKES as well. I have never set it up or even used it. After installation we would need to expose it in a Rest web service. Many considerations there (DoS attacks, etc). Recommendations welcome! Does it make sense to anyone to concomitantly expose search of UMLS as a webservice? Would this require a separate Solr/Elasticsearch instance? Dave Donohue
