Protecting Privacy of Human Subjects
Patricia A. Roche · Science · 2005
Jocelyn Kaiser's article on the U.S. federal regulations known as the HIPAA Privacy Rules ([1][1]) describes these laws as overly complicated and obstructing life-saving research (“Privacy rule creates bottleneck for U.S. biomedical researchers,” News Focus, 9 July 2004, p. 168.). It ends with