The privacy provisions established ...

The privacy provisions established by way of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) contain extensive requirements for protecting the medical records of individuals, including participants in clinical trials and health care studies. Unfortunately, this of recent origin policy imposes on researchers a legion of new rules that are likely to complicate data analysis and retention, block up subject enrollment in studies, and limit access to data extremityed to track and analyze diseases and public health turns At a minimum, the sways are likely to add greatly to the workload of