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When research calls for recruiting patients with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, it's often hard to know whether patients would want to participate had they been able to make the decision themselves.
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In this digital age, a breach of personal data about clients or customers is the nightmare scenario for any business, conjuring specters of identity theft and public relations woes.
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During a February 2008 Joint Commission survey at Temple East/Northeastern Hospital, a 187-bed community hospital in Philadelphia, surveyors asked several staff members if they knew how to contact The Joint Commission about quality or safety concerns.
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Nearly half (43%) of hospitals surveyed in the first half of 2007 were not compliant with The Joint Commission's standard requiring medications be properly and safely stored, and 20% were non-compliant with the requirement for medication orders to be written clearly and transcribed accurately.
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Seasonal increases in respiratory illnesses. Overflowing emergency departments (EDs) when other hospitals go on ambulance diversion. Scheduling issues with the operating room. Physicians failing to make timely decisions on transferring patients. Your facility failing to grow in response to the needs of the community.
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This is an excerpt from the memorandum sent to all University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), employees at 9:20 a.m. on Jan. 31, 2008, by chief compliance and privacy officer Carole A. Klove:
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A government laptop computer containing sensitive medical information on 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study was stolen in February, according to a recent report in The Washington Post.
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As part of his efforts to educate the public about heart health, Frederick Meadors, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center in Little Rock, AR, had planned to perform heart surgery on a patient while 330 people watched the procedure live through a video feed in a hospital auditorium.
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A health provider in Los Angeles that frequently treats celebrities announced recently that it had failed to protect the privacy of singer Britney Spears, and it wasn't the first time.