Ensuring Patient Privacy in Data Sharing for Postapproval Research.

The article discusses data-sharing pathways for research purposes under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH). Topics include the usefulness of HIPAA and HITECH, application of the pathways for postapproval research, and the associated risk of liability among investors seeking to combine large data sets to conduct postapproval research.