PURPOSE We wanted to explore potential effects of the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) on research activities of practice-based research networks …

PURPOSE This article explores the challenges that practice-based research networks
(PBRNs) face with respect to the regulatory requirements for institutional review board (IRB) …

Concerns with the privacy of personal health information have grown with increased use of
electronic medical records and with the patient-centered philosophy that physician-patient …

Although many perspectives on the impact of the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) on health services research have been wide spread, little …

The purpose of this article is to review the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA), the Privacy Rule, the Security Rule, and common issues encountered by …

Background: Practice-based research network (PBRN) study investigators must interface
with multiple Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), many of which are unfamiliar with PBRN …

Research conducted in a practice-based research network (PBRN) differs from other
multisite research and presents particular planning challenges. The American Academy of …

Background: Bound by a shared commitment to improving medical care through systematic
inquiry, practice-based research networks (PBRNs) provide a basic laboratory for primary …

Understanding how to govern emerging distributed research networks is essential to their
success. Distributed research networks aggregate patient medical data from many …

Introduction: We recently completed a strategic planning process to better understand the
development of our 5-year-old practice-based research network (PBRN) and to identify gaps …