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AHC Medias Hospital Report blog won first place for best blog or commentary at SIPA 2014: Strategies for Growth, the annual conference for specialized information publishers, held June 4-6 in Washington, DC.
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Laura Noll, MS-candidate, LAT, ILAM, research compliance manager at Radford University in Radford, VA, has had to learn ways to get a lot of research compliance work accomplished on a shoestring budget.
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Biorepositories of tissue and blood samples are valuable resources for disease research. When developing the framework for a biorepository, IRBs and researchers must find the right balance of policies and procedures to fit the needs of the institution, ensure patient confidentiality, and fulfill regulatory requirements.
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IRBs continually struggle to find nonaffiliated and nonscientist volunteers to fill the challenging role of IRB member.
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The transition from a paper IRB submission process to an electronic one can be a long and, at times, frustrating journey. The key is to break goals into phases and deal with obstacles as they arise, an expert says.
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For decades, IRBs and ethics panels have lamented the sorry state of informed consent documents.
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Protecting the identities and sensitive information of study subjects is one of the top priorities in research, particularly if a study involves topics that could be damaging to a subjects reputation.
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Butler County Health Care Center (BCHCC) in David City, NE, is small it has 25 beds serving a rural community of 2,500 but the administrators think big.
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Maybe in today's jaded world, $75,000 doesn't seem like a lot of money to win. But along with that little financial windfall won by University Hospital Case Medical Center in Cleveland in July, came a prestigious title: Winner of the American Hospital Association McKesson Quest for Quality award.
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