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Agenda: Meeting 2. Committee on Health Research and the Privacy of Health Information: The HIPAA Privacy Rule

Monday, October 1, 2007

8:00 am         Continental Breakfast

8:30 am         Welcome and Opening Remarks

                        Lawrence Gostin (Committee Chair)

8:45 am         Historical Overview of the HIPAA privacy rule

                        Marcy Wilder
                        Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

10:00 am       Break

10:15 am       Patient Privacy Rights: How to Use Patient Control of Health Information to Create Digital Superhighway for Research

                        Deborah C. Peel, MD
                        Founder and Chair of Patient Privacy Rights

10:45 am       Public Perceptions of Privacy and Health Research, Pre-2007

                        Alan Westin
                        Privacy Consulting Group

11:15 am       Important considerations in the privacy of health information 

                        Janlori Goldman
                        Director, Health Privacy Project

12:15 pm       Discussion

                        Lawrence Gostin, Committee, and Guests

12:45 pm       Lunch

1:45 pm         Safeguarding privacy through design of information systems

                        Stefan Brands
                        President, Credentica

2:15 pm         Implications of the Privacy Rule for Health Services Research

                        Katherine Kahn
                        Senior Natural Scientist, RAND
                        Professor of Medicine, UCLA

2:45 pm         Implications of the Privacy Rule for trialists and academic research

                        Robert Califf
                        Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research and Director|
                        Duke Translational Medicine Institute

3:15 pm         Perspectives on Canadian Privacy Protections and informed consent

                        Frank L. Silver
                        Professor of Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto
                        Co-PI of the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network

3:45 pm         Break

4:00 pm         Research Privacy under HIPAA and the Common Rule – the need for harmonization

                        Mark Rothstein
                        Director, Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law
                        University of Louisville

4:30 pm         Discussion

                        Lawrence Gostin, Committee, and Guests

5:30 pm         Adjourn Day 1

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

8:30 am         How the Public and Research Participants See Health Research and Privacy Issues - A National Survey, 2007

                        Alan Westin
                        Privacy Consulting Group

9:30 am         National Survey of Epidemiologists on the HIPAA Privacy Rule and its Effects on Health Research

                        Roberta Ness
                        University of Pittsburgh

10:00 am      Survey updates

                        Sarah Greene, HMO Research Network
                        David Helms, Academy Health
                        Richard Schilsky, American Society of Clinical Oncology
                        Raymond Gibbons, American Heart Association

10:45 am       Break

11:00 am       Health Research and Privacy – the Way Forward

                        Mark Barnes
                        St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

11:30 pm       Committee Deliberations: Discussion of surveys, draft report outline, potential recommendations, future directions, and work plans

                        Lawrence Gostin, Committee, and Consultants

12:00 pm       Working Lunch

1:00 pm         Continued deliberations

3:00 pm         Concluding Remarks

                        Lawrence Gostin

Adjourn Day 2

Back to Meeting

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