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Catholic Health Systems in Buffalo, NY, is deterring insurance card fraud and taking a step approach to cleaning up its master person index through the use of a fingerprint scanner for patient identification.
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Relief may be on the way for access personnel faced with explaining to surprised and irate patients that theyll have to pay for a test or procedure themselves because it doesnt meet Medicares medical necessity requirement.
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An advance directive form designed for the estimated 90 million American adults who read below the fifth-grade level has been released
by the Institute for Healthcare Advancement.
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Accounting for disclosures continues to be the most onerous privacy rule requirement for health care providers to meet and the provision the federal government most needs to change, according a recent survey by the American Health Information Management Association.
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More IRBs are being drawn into the complex and controversial world of human embryonic stem cell research.
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The Medical College of Wisconsin is enlisting technology in the task of teaching investigators and research participants about the importance of obtaining truly informed consent in clinical research.
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Mistrust of the medical and science communities may be discouraging non-Caucasian cancer patients from enrolling in clinical trials, a research group has discovered.
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Individual states, including California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin, now are moving forward to fill the funding gap for stem cell research. So far, California leads the pack voters approved a $3 billion bond measure for stem cell research in November.
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A survey of warning letters sent to IRBs by the FDA shows that most of the offenders were deficient in some of the most fundamental areas of responsibility failing to have or follow adequate review procedures and failure to maintain adequate documentation of IRB activities.
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Support groups for people who suffer from chronic or life-threatening illnesses can be a valuable source of community members for IRBs, says a woman who founded a support group and serves on two boards.
