The document discusses issues with the current patient consent model for using medical data and proposes an alternative approach. It notes that rules around data sharing can conflict and fail to serve patients' and researchers' interests. The alternative proposed is patient-controlled sharing, where patients interested in research can choose to share their de-identified data, addressing current barriers. This shifts the focus from protecting patients to empowering those wanting to contribute to research.

1. Patient Consent to Use of Data
Are We Asking the Wrong Question?
David Harlow JD MPH
THE HARLOW GROUP LLC
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3. When an Unstoppable
Force Meets an
Immovable Object . . .

4. Focus.
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5. A Big Pile-Up of Rules
is in Nobody’s Best
Interest

6. Don’t Be Evil

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8. Deidentification
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9. Research

10. What If We Didn’t Need to be Protected?

11. What if …

12. Fix Problems Standing in the Way of Sharing
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Identify Patients Interested in Sharing

13. Get on Board
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14. Shift Your Perspective
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15. Patient-Controlled Sharing

16. Blue Button

18. Project
Medyear

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23. Thank You
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David Harlow JD MPH
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