Is there any designated expiration for patient consent forms defined by HIPAA? We perform an annual examination, the contents of which usually do not change, and have been requiring a consent ...

Obtaining HIPAA Authorization is required in addition to obtaining informed consent to participate in research. An Authorization Form focuses on privacy risks and states how, why, and to whom the PHI ...

HIPAA also offers an exception to the authorization process where a researcher is seeking to use PHI for purposes preparatory to research. [3] ...

Beginning July 1, the UB IRB will require all new study submissions in Click to use an updated Consent Template.

A federal patient privacy rule has had a chilling effect on medical research, making it tougher to recruit patients and use their health records, the first national survey on the topic suggests.

WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The privacy rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is having a negative impact on the advance of biomedical research ...

According to the researchers, consent forms required by HIPAA, which lawmakers intended to help safeguard patient information, have made it much more difficult to enlist volunteers in new research ...

HIPAA does not prohibit investigators who have not received a subject's written authorization from using the subject's health information in their research, however; it simply puts limits on what and ...

NOTE: To ensure compliance with requirements for obtaining and documenting informed consent, the VASNHCS Research Compliance Officer routinely audits consent forms for most research studies and ...

Consent forms that people sign before participating in research are widely considered difficult to understand and sometimes inaccurate. Lack of clarity was implicated in a high-profile legal ...