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In the absence of changes to HIPAA that would clarify the use of the privacy rule in historical medical archives, institutions, archivists and IRBs are left to sort through the complicated issues themselves.
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The archives of medical colleges and hospitals can be a rich source of information for historians interested in how health care has been delivered throughout our nation's history. Old case files, collections of physicians' personal papers, even old photographs were donated to archives so that others could learn from them decades later.
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As funding barriers are slowly being chipped away in California and some other parts of the country, increasing numbers of institutions are forming stem cell research oversight committees (SCROs), or embryonic stem cell research oversight committees (ESCRO), which often have some overlapping responsibilities with IRBs.
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During a routine visit to her primary care physician, a patient had abnormal EKG results and was sent to the emergency department.
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The informed consent process is a linchpin of health care risk management, but even the most earnest efforts to fully detail the risks of treatment can be for naught if the patient simply can't understand what you're saying or what is written.
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Controversy has interrupted after an attempted organ transplant at a California hospital, with several groups investigating whether a doctor attempted to hasten a patient's death so that his organs could be harvested.
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Local attorneys are criticizing a Pennsylvania hospital's use of a medical waiver that asks patients to sign away their right to a jury trial in the event of malpractice.
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If you're serious about assessing security and taking the right steps to thwart infant abductions, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in Alexandria, VA, offers direct assistance.
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Infant abductions happen with enough regularity that the compiled statistics paint a clear picture of how the perpetrators typically commit the act and who they are.
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The community of Lubbock, TX, was shocked last year when a newborn baby was stolen from its mother, who had come to trust the accused kidnapper because she appeared to be on staff at the hospital.