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Google/Ascension Partnership Shows HIPAA Gray Areas
The Office for Civil Rights is investigating a huge data-sharing project between Google and Ascension, one of the country’s largest nonprofit health systems, in a case that analysts say highlights the uncertainties of exactly what is and is not allowed under HIPAA.
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Nurses Require Their Own Education on Malpractice Prevention
Nurses often are undereducated on malpractice prevention and risk management because efforts focus more on physicians. Education focused on nursing concerns can help reduce the risk for themselves and their employers.
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Hospital Realizes Value of Disaster Planning When Bus Crashes
A small hospital in a town of 1,500 residents was the main facility receiving patients after a serious bus crash. The hospital coordinated with other facilities in the health system to manage the incident.
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CDC: Fight Against AIDS at Key Inflection Point
CDC officials updated an ambitious plan to essentially end the AIDS epidemic in the United States in the next decade. While taking an overall national approach, the plan — part of a collaboration between the CDC and other federal agencies — would target specific geographic areas and at-risk populations.
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Mass Flu Vaccinations Serve as Emergency Drills
Infection preventionists may one day be faced with a pandemic flu or the release of a bioterrorism agent that calls for mass vaccinations or post-exposure prophylaxis of healthcare workers. One novel way to prepare now is to stage annual flu vaccinations as an emergency drill.
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Human Factors: Drug Stewardship in the Emergency Department
Broadly classified as ergonomics in much of the world, human factors engineering ultimately may lead to changes in practices and behaviors entrenched in healthcare that endanger patients with infections and other harms.
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C. auris: A Bad Bug With a Worst-Case Scenario
Imagine if a common healthcare-associated infection became impossible to treat. The nightmare scenario public health officials are contemplating is that an emerging strain of multidrug-resistant Candida auris will displace treatable strains of Candida, which are already a leading cause of bloodstream infections.
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Murderers’ Row: Resistant to Drugs, Threats to Humans
In a recently published report on antibiotic threats in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classified pathogens as urgent, serious, concerning, or put them on a “watch list.”
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OHRP Gives IRBs a Break With Single IRB Review Exceptions
The Office for Human Research Protections is making implementation of the revised Common Rule a little easier for IRBs with two exceptions to the single IRB review requirement.
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Antibiotic-Resistant Threats: CDC Report Cites Progress, Peril
A combination of public health, antibiotic stewardship, and infection control efforts over the last six years have managed to beat back the devil of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Yet all still hangs in the balance.