The role-based access control feature provides security with differing levels of access permission granted to different roles.

Team Roles

Team roles control access at the Samsung Health Stack level. Available roles are:

  • Team Admin
  • Team Member

The table shows available features for each role.

Features Roles
Team Admin Team Member
Create Study Yes No
Invite Team Members Yes No

Only the first person to create a Samsung Health Stack account gets assigned the Team Admin team role. Accounts for all others are team member accounts.

Study Roles

Study roles control access to various aspects of the study. To be part of the team for a given study, a person must have one or more study roles assigned. Available roles are:

  • Principal Investigator - has full access to all aspects of the study.
  • Research Assistant - has access to most aspects of the study.
  • Data Scientist - has access to most aspects of the study, but no access to participants' personal information.

The portal UI for this feature is complete, but the backend code wasn't completed in time to be included in the beta version. For beta, theResearch Assistantand Data Scientist study roles are not available and the Principal Investigator study role displays as Researcherin the Members and access table.

The table shows available features for each role.

Features Roles
Principal Investigator Research Assistant Data Scientist Study Creator
Study Overview

Study Progress Yes Yes Yes No
Participant Dropout Yes Yes Yes No
Participant Enrollment Yes Yes Yes No
Task Compliance Yes Yes Yes No
Participant List

View Aggregated Yes Yes De-identified No
View Individual Yes Yes De-identified No
In-Lab Visit

View Yes Yes No No
Edit Yes Yes No No
Download Yes Yes No No
Surveys

Create Yes Yes Yes No
Edit Yes Yes Yes No
View Yes Yes Yes No
Publish Yes Yes Yes No
Activities

Create Yes Yes Yes No
Edit Yes Yes Yes No
View Yes Yes Yes No
Publish Yes Yes Yes No
Educational Content

Create Yes Yes Yes No
Edit Yes Yes Yes No
View Yes Yes Yes No
Publish Yes Yes Yes No
Sensor Data Viewing

Avg Resting HR by Gender Yes Yes Yes No
Avg Resting HR by Age Yes Yes Yes No
Data Queries

View Yes Yes De-identified No
Download Yes Yes De-identified No
Member Access

View Members Yes Yes Yes Yes
Edit Members Yes* If study creator If study creator Yes
Invite Members Yes If study creator If study creator Yes
Delete Members Yes* If study creator If study creator Yes