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Healthcare Planning for the Lone Senior
Social isolation is a life-and-death matter, believed to influence mortality as much as obesity and smoking. Yet amid the growing population of seniors, many are unmarried, widowed, or have no children living nearby. When discharge planning for the lone senior, case managers should know several points about this demographic.
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VA Care Coordination Satisfaction Rates Higher Than Community Care
Focusing on better communication and care coordination, a Department of Veterans Affairs facility exhibited strength in its communication and care coordination, according to the authors of a new study.
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How to Harvest Big Data to Reduce Readmissions
“Big data” is a buzzword in healthcare these days. The term refers to the vast amount of electronic data healthcare providers have accumulated over the years. While the concept can seem pretty abstract, big data is more relevant than ever and potentially at every case manager’s fingertips if provided with the right tools to harvest it.
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The Elements of a Transitional Heart Failure Care Program
Hospitals and subacute facilities monitor congestive heart failure patients closely, but there may be a gap in care once patients are discharged. A transitional heart failure care clinic can fill that gap.
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Hospital’s Transitional Care Programs Help Heart Failure Patients Stay Healthier
Hospitals that focus on collaboration between case management and transitional care clinics for people with congestive heart failure are finding positive outcomes in their patients’ health and 30-day readmissions.
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IRBs, Research Organizations Adjust to New Norms in COVID-19 Era
The research world’s axis shifted in 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic. Research organizations and IRBs should expect that shift to be the new normal. There will be no return to the way it was before.
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More Research Needed Into How IRBs Operate and Make Decisions
The revised Common Rule’s provision that a single IRB should review protocols for multisite studies raises questions about how these IRBs handle conflicts of interest, local knowledge, and other issues. When a group of researchers sought to answer these questions, they found a big obstacle: Some IRBs, including the largest ones, were unwilling to participate.
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Steps for IRBs to Better Safeguard Participants
Technology is moving far faster than federal human research protection laws and regulations. But there are a few things IRBs can do that will help protect study participants.
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Combining Large Data Sets Challenges IRBs, Researchers to Ensure Privacy
The problems with HIPAA and current methods of protecting the privacy of individuals in research are being challenged in ways that were not possible in previous decades due to the ease and use of big data. Data scientists and other savvy investigators can combine de-identified data in a way that makes cross-references and re-identification possible.
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Mobile Technology, Wearables Are Changing Research, Challenging IRBs
Mobile technology and wearable sensors are broadening the limits of research and changing how IRBs view privacy. The voluminous data can point to health strategies previously unimaginable.