Health Affairs June 29, 2022
Health care providers collect vast amounts of electronic health information (EHI) that hold enormous potential for advancing science. However, that potential has been limited by a lack of incentives, imperatives, and standardized means to share EHI with researchers. Federal law sets conditions for sharing identifiable data for research through regulations under HIPAA and the Common Rule. But those regulations do not mandate that EHI be shared in the first place. The result is that entities producing EHI have had broad discretion over researcher access.
The 21st Century Cures Act and its companion Cures Act Final Rule, finalized by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology in 2020 and effective since April 5, 2021, may limit that discretion—in...
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