TY - BOOK AU - Institute of Medicine A2 - Sharyl J. Nass A2 - Laura A. Levit A2 - Lawrence O. Gostin TI - Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research SN - 978-0-309-12499-7 DO - 10.17226/12458 PY - 2009 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12458/beyond-the-hipaa-privacy-rule-enhancing-privacy-improving-health-through PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Computers and Information Technology KW - Health and Medicine AB - In the realm of health care, privacy protections are needed to preserve patients' dignity and prevent possible harms. Ten years ago, to address these concerns as well as set guidelines for ethical health research, Congress called for a set of federal standards now known as the HIPAA Privacy Rule. In its 2009 report, Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Health Research and the Privacy of Health Information concludes that the HIPAA Privacy Rule does not protect privacy as well as it should, and that it impedes important health research. ER -