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A web page for registration training and support for Aurora Health Cares metro region is providing a wealth of information for access personnel and drawing praise not just from the Milwaukee-based facilities it targets, but throughout the Aurora network.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will use a complaint-driven process to enforce the transactions and code sets provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act after the Oct. 16 implementation deadline, and will focus on using voluntary compliance.
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Physician practices considering going back to paper claims as a way of coping with the Oct. 16 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services deadline for transactions and code sets should resist the temptation, according to John Thomas, CEO of Dallas-based MedSynergies.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the National Committee for Quality Assurance have started a new Privacy Certification Program for Business Associates to assess whether organizations designated as business associates under HIPAA are meeting essential requirements for safeguarding personally identifiable health information.
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Confusion in research circles over privacy requirements under HIPAA is seen in a flap at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, which sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services asking whether it could request patients permission to use their medical records for research.
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Clinical trial coordinators can easily become overwhelmed by the myriad tasks they must perform during the studys duration. But the key to keeping a drug or device trial or other research study moving is to do as much advance preparation as possible, say experts.
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The main role of a study coordinator is to act as a patient advocate, yet still maintain the integrity and progress of the trial, says Laurie Czaplewski, RN, BSN, clinical trial coordinator with the Mayo Alliance for Clinical Trials in Rochester, MN.
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In an attempt to clarify Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations, the federal Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) has issued an update to its 2000 guidance on research involving prisoners.
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Most learned people know something about the experiments done on black men in Tuskegee, AL, in the early part of the 20th century: Syphilitic men were enrolled in a study without adequate consent or understanding, and ultimately refused effective treatment in the name of science.
