The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need for sharing patient data to help scientists learn more about the virus and how to stop it from spreading. One key ethical issue, however, is how much information can health providers disclose to researchers without violating patient privacy? “We would like to give researchers as much data as possible for this kind of analysis. The UT Dallas project, which also involves Dr. Brad Malin, vice chair for research in biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, focuses on the risks of an individual being identified when patient data is released for research purposes. “We would like to give researchers as much data as possible for this kind of analysis,” Kantarcioglu said.