title: Electronic consent channels: preserving patient privacy without handcuffing researchers.
abstract: Advances in health information technology and electronic medical records have the tremendous potential to accelerate translational and clinical research. However, privacy concerns threaten to be a rate-limiting factor. By recognizing and responding to patient privacy concerns, policy-makers, researchers, and information technology leaders have the opportunity to transform trial recruitment and make it safer to electronically locate and convey sensitive health information.
authors.affiliation: Private Access, Irvine, CA 92617, USA. rshelton@privateaccess.com
authors.forename: Robert H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Shelton
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D003219:Confidentiality; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods; D018907:Privacy