The current medical environment has made clinic research incredibly difficult to do! As a result, every singe research question that a researcher has essentially has to have individual IRB (institutional review board) approval to get done. This takes a huge amount of time and money and is cumbersome for the participants because of multiple layers of consent. Meanwhile, millions of people get their blood drawn everyday and could potentially participate in research. I propose that our HIPAA laws be amended to allow for people to more easily share anonymous health information or blood/urine samples. Instead of millions of individual research projects which require single consents, everyone could instead participate and even direct their samples to a particular area of interest (e.g. cancer).
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