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Journal club: metadata integration with cloud-based solutions

Journal club discussion about cloud-based surveillance resources

Welcome back to our Journal Club. This week we will be focussing on an article by the CRIT Care Asia collaboration looking at how to implement existing cloud-based registries for pandemic surveillance in low-and-middle-income countries. Think about the questions below and leave your thoughts in the forum.

1) Why is it important to share data across countries?
2) What are the benefits of linking genomic and clinical data in a cloud-based registry?
3) What are the potential risks involved in this approach?

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