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Classification Standards For Health Information: Ethical And Practical Approaches, Craig Konnoth Mar 2016

Classification Standards For Health Information: Ethical And Practical Approaches, Craig Konnoth

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

Secondary health information research requires vast quantities of data in order to make clinical and health delivery breakthroughs. Restrictive policies that limit the use of such information threaten to stymie this research. While the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the new Common Rule permits patients to provide broad consent for the use of their information for research, that policy offers insufficient flexibility. This Article suggests a flexible consenting system that allows patients to consent to a range of privacy risks. The details of the system will be fleshed out in future work.