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Nursing Shortage, Technology Changes Could Bring Liability Risks
The new year will bring nursing-related liability risks that involve the aging labor force, the changing healthcare industry, and technology, says an industry analyst.
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Anthem Settlement Holds Lessons on Data Breaches, Costs
Anthem’s recent $115 million settlement — one of the largest ever in a consumer data breach — shows how costly a breach can be for a healthcare organization. Risk managers should remember that even a much smaller breach could be financially devastating.
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Expanding Cyberinsurance Market Brings Benefits to Healthcare
The expansion of the cyberinsurance market means that healthcare organizations can get more coverage for a lower premium than in the past.
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Watch for Common Pitfalls in Cybercoverage
Healthcare risk managers may mistakenly assume that a commercial insurance policy will cover the damage related from cyberattacks, but that is often not the case.
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Cyberinsurance Now a Necessity, But Choose Coverage Wisely
Insurance to cover cyberattacks leading to data breaches, ransom, and interference with medical care is becoming more popular with hospitals and health systems, almost becoming as much a necessity as malpractice coverage and general liability insurance.
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Ethical Challenges of Paying Addicted Participants
Financial compensation and HIV/HCV testing elicited trust and motivated an addicted population to participate in research, according to the authors of a recent report examining the ethical issues that can arise when intravenous drug addicts are paid for their research participation.
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Small World, Big Data: International Research Collaborations
The National Institutes of Health has encouraged international collaboration in the Human Genome Project and other precision medicine research.
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Researcher: Measure the Quality and Efficacy of IRBs
While it is intuitive that IRB oversight effectively protects human research subjects from ethical breaches and other risks, there is surprisingly little data on the quality and performance of review boards.
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NIH Marshalling Data Defenses for All of Us Project
In a disarmingly frank lecture in an ethics training course at the National Institutes of Health, a leader of the landmark All of Us project shared some of the concerns that come with the immense responsibility of collecting data on 1 million people.
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New Common Rule Suggests Changes for Informed Consent Documents
IRBs often spend too much time wordsmithing informed consent forms and not enough time on the big issue of comprehension, one IRB director says.