This study puts two human rights at risk, namely the right to privacy and the right to social security. The first is because this academic paper will present statistics related to personal bar codes. The latter is due to the possible non-provision of a medication scanning for inquiry purposes of persons with diminished autonomy whose inclusion is necessary to ensure the objective nature of future findings. Potential HIPAA breaches include “accessing the health records of patients for reasons other than those permitted by the Privacy Rule” (HIPAA Journal, 2022, para. 11). The initial specificity of the data may lead to accidental exposure to personal data that is not relevant to the research process. Measures to mitigate these risks and concerns include anonymizing participating patients, informing them of the study, creating pseudonyms for qualitative personal data elements, and withholding critical quantitative unique data elements about individuals.
Specific training and awareness programs will be used to successfully de-identify private information from bar codes and digital charts. These include the participation of all research team members in professional data privacy training and data privacy awareness lectures. Then a pre-composed test will be conducted to reveal the degree of skill of competent hiding personal data in the study among its participants. It is expected that the level of IRB review that will be required for future academic work will be an expedited one. It is due to the future partial “use of data already collected for non-research purposes” by a medical organization that will serve as a setting for the study (Levels of IRB review, n.d., para. 3). Since it is planned to anonymize and classify key and irrelevant elements of the subjects’ unique information, the team of this academic paper insists on the informed consent waiver. Informed consent will not be needed here because the future inquiry will present only minimal risk ensured by professional concealment of private information.
References
HIPAA Journal. (2022). The most common HIPAA violations you should be aware of. HIPAA Journal. Web.
Levels of IRB review. (n.d.). Community Medical Centers. Web.