September 4, 2014 | As electronic health systems make it easier for large hospitals to perform comparative studies of different courses of treatment, providers, patient advocates, and government alike worry that the patient consent process is too slow and unwieldy to support this needed research. In a considered feature by Politico's eHealth editor Arthur Allen, a number of bioethicists weigh in on when and how patients should be kept abreast of hospital-centered studies. Politico