Week 13 Discussion

 The article on IRB this week discusses broad consent under the revised Common Rule. When you are doing any sort of research you are going to need to have your research plan approved by the University’s institutional review board or IRB. If you have never heard of this term before, please take a look online and find a brief summary of what it is about, before you read the article.  

Please answer the following questions in your main post:

• What are the main issues that the article addresses?
• What is the Common Rule?
• How is this issue related to information systems and digital privacy?

Reading article:

 Implementing Regulatory Broad Consent Under the Revised Common Rule: Clarifying Key Points and the Need for Evidence. (2019). Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 47(2), 213–231.  https://doi.org/10.1177/1073110519857277