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01/Kennedy211-214 7/15/03 11:59 AM Page 211 Neuroinformatics Copyright ©Humana Press Inc. All rights of any nature whatsoever are reserved. ISSN 1539-2791/03/211–214/$25.00 Editorial David N. Kennedy Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA With a pair of administrative actions by the ory in the short term and may take a substan- United States Government and the National tial amount of time to disentangle, these are Institutes of Health (NIH), the spring of 2003 indeed necessary and valuable milestones in has heralded a new era in the sharing of med- the objectives of more cost-effective, fair, and ically related data. On the one hand, the new rapid progress in medical research. On the way, NIH Data Sharing Policy was finalized and they necessitate a rethinking of information released on February 26, 2003; and on the other flow (informatics) in the medical communities hand, the Standards for Privacy of Individually and will promote advances in the general infor- Identifiable Health Information (“Privacy matics infrastructure as these policies become Rule”) of the Health Insurance Portability and adopted and assimilated into the routine of the Accountability Act (HIPAA) went into effect on scientific process. While these policies originate April 14, 2003. For investigators
Neuroinformatics – Springer Journals
Published: Jun 6, 2007
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