OBJECTIVES: The All of Us Research Program is a precision medicine initiative aimed at establishing a vast, diverse biomedical database accessible through a cloud-based data analysis platform, the Researcher Workbench (RW). Our goal was to empower the research community by co-designing the implementation of SAS in the RW alongside researchers to enable broader use of All of Us data.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Researchers from various fields and with different SAS experience levels participated in co-designing the SAS implementation through user experience interviews.
RESULTS: Feedback and lessons learned from user testing informed the final design of the SAS application.
DISCUSSION: The co-design approach is critical for reducing technical barriers, broadening All of Us data use, and enhancing the user experience for data analysis on the RW.
CONCLUSION: Our co-design approach successfully tailored the implementation of the SAS application to researchers’ needs. This approach may inform future software implementations on the RW.
Empowering the biomedical research community: Innovative SAS deployment on the All of Us Researcher Workbench
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 31 (12), 2994-3000. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocae216. PMCID: PMC11631098.