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Electronic health records (EHRs) have long been touted as a transformative tool in medicine.
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If youre the one who tells self-pay patients their bill is in the six figures without offering any assistance, theyre very likely to blame the messenger and become defensive. On the other hand, what if you could give those patients peace of mind by helping them obtain desperately needed coverage?
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A new year means new provisions to be put in in place under the Affordable Care Act, the National Association of Healthcare Access Management reports.
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The need to reduce, avoid, or not to adopt costly treatments which provide very small benefits, and the need to provide everyone with treatments that are very effective and reasonably priced, present ethical challenges.
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Bioethicists disagreed with the U.S. Office for Human Research Protections' position that a large multisite clinical trial failed to obtain proper consent from the parents of enrolled infants.
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Bioethicists can help clinicians who suspect a colleague may be impaired by giving advice on how to proceed and assisting in creating a confidential process.
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Many ethical considerations will be examined with The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies initiative, including privacy, moral responsibility for one's actions, stigmatization and discrimination, and ensuring protection of vulnerable populations.
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Mandatory influenza vaccinations for health care workers can be ethically justified because the vaccine is reasonablysafe andeffective, voluntary participation has failed, and many people will be harmed if it does not occur, according to bioethicists.
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A court recently ordered that two pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis be allowed to compete on an equal basis with adults for lungs from adult donors, but transplant experts say judicial intervention risks disrupting a system based on public trust.
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Clinicians often under-utilize clinical ethics consults because they believe these to be unhelpful and time-consuming, but bioethicists can counter these misperceptions with education and by building relationships in clinical areas.