June 3, 2005
Federal Privacy Rules May Hamper Medical Research, Study Finds
Two-year-old federal rules intended to ensure patients' privacy have the potential to cripple medical research, scientists at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor have found. The privacy standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, known as Hipaa, could essentially shut down studies intended to evaluate the quality of health care, they reported last week in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Hipaa's privacy rule, which went into effect in April 2003,
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