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Johns Hopkins and Rockefeller Foundation respond to lawsuits
Both Johns Hopkins University and the Rockefeller Foundation recently issued statements saying that while they condemn the Guatemalan studies that harmed hundreds of people, their institutions were not involved or responsible for those studies.
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Presidential Commission found gross violations in Guatemalan studies
After nine months and reviewing 125,000 pages of records, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues found that the Guatemalan studies of sexually transmitted diseases were “ethically impossible.”
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Billion-dollar Lawsuit Puts the Past into the Present
From an IRB and research ethics perspective, when are historical wrongdoings truly in the past?
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Patient ID ‘paramount’ to forming interoperable LHS
Patient identification has been called “paramount” to the formation of an interoperable Learning Health System (LHS). So says the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS).
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Paper, storage costs plummet with e-signatures: 60,000 pages no longer printed
More than 60,000 pieces of paper each month no longer need to be printed, copied, and stored in offsite record storage locations, due to electronic signatures being implemented in registration areas at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
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Email surveys get quick response from members of patient access staff
When managers at OSF Healthcare System wanted the staff's' opinion, they got answers via an email survey.
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What do staff really think of leaders in patient access? Take survey results seriously
Patient access employees at Integris Health weren’t shy about letting their feelings be known regarding the department’s dress policy.
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Make it easy for off-shifts to attend staff meetings — Don’t settle for low turnout
Registrars who work night shifts in the emergency department and labor and delivery registration areas can’t attend 2 p.m. staff meetings at New Orleans-based Ochsner Baptist Medical Center and Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner. So supervisors give the night shift staff members their own meeting at 10:30 p.m. or 6:30 a.m.
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Night, weekend staff overlooked — Registrars on off-shifts want pizza parties, face-to-face time
Several years ago, Shelita Russ, CHAM, director of patient access services at New Orleans-based Ochsner Baptist Medical Center and Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner (LA), held a pizza party to celebrate a departmental achievement: Her team had met its point-of-service collection goals for the quarter.
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$500K in revenue expected in first year of financial navigator program
A financial navigation program started in August 2014 already has increased revenue by $330,000 at Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia, TN.