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Human subjects research protection experts agree that IRBs are overburdened and that something should be done to improve the regulations and rules governing their work. However, there is less agreement on how this could be accomplished. IRB Advisor asked IRB and research professionals to discuss how IRB regulations or the interpretation of them might be improved.
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A security consulting firm that is providing security risk assessment and compliance review services for small health care related businesses says one way to increase incentives for physicians to come into compliance with HIPAA requirements would be for malpractice insurers to offer reduced premiums to those who have done a risk assessment and are moving forward on implementation.
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The latest survey of 631 providers, payers, companies, and clearinghouses by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) indicates that as of mid-January, only half had completed testing for the Transaction and Code Standards (TCS), which standardized what information must be contained in electronic claims and how it should be transmitted.
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Thirty-six million Americans do not have access to basic health care because they live in communities with an acute shortage of health care providers.
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Access managers could benefit by stretching a bit beyond their boundaries and actively seeking participation in the clinical side of health care, suggests Karen McKinley, RN, CHAM, vice president of patient access and care management for Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA.
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The 2004 fixed performance areas that will be addressed in random unannounced surveys conducted by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Organizations will be organized by critical focus areas instead of performance categories as in the past.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced these rates for ambulatory surgery center groups, effective April 1, 2004.
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Sometimes, despite your best efforts, an accident occurs with new technology and a patient is injured or dies. Surprisingly, one of the most common mistakes that providers make is insufficient investigation or lack of response to an error so that it is repeated, says Bruce C. Hansel, PhD, executive director of forensic services at ECRI.
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According to Minneapolis training experts Ron and Susan Zemke, adults learn for a purpose. They wrote, Adults tend to have a problem-centered orientation to learning. So when designing an education program they suggest you keep in mind the following.
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The longtime research tradition of sharing data has been challenged in recent years with the implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and its privacy requirements. However, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has confirmed its commitment to the tradition with its mandate requiring certain grant proposals to describe how data will be prepared for public use.
