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Access departments are likely to see an increasing number of patients with some version of what is known as a consumer-driven health plan (CDHP).
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Three million fewer workers elected to enroll in their employer's health insurance plan between 1998 and 2003; and The (IRS) has begun sending tax-exempt hospitals a compliance check questionnaire seeking information about their operations.
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Specialty hospitals that do not have emergency departments (EDs) are still subject to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) rules on acceptance of patients for transfer.
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Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano developed a program called Health-e Connection and wants her state to be the national model for electronic connectivity of health care records.
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Nursing accountability and a strong financial commitment from hospital administration are fueling a successful point-of-service (POS) collections program in the pediatric and adult emergency departments (EDs) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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A year after its public meeting on the Support study, the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) issued a draft guidance to clarify its thinking on the disclosure of reasonably foreseeable risks in standard of care research.
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For years now, IRB managers have been developing and using tools, including checklists and templates. The goal is to improve IRB review consistency and to expedite the approval turnaround process. While checklists and tools are useful, they can also be a problem.
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Human research protection programs (HRPPs) are poised for the next level of evolution as todays controversies push research ethics in new directions.
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IRB board member self-evaluations are crucial for determining how members view their IRB service and measuring the performance of the HRPP itself. But IRB administrators who are looking for self-evaluation tools may have a hard time deciding where to start, or which issues should be the focus.
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Enid Virago, PhD, CIP, CCRP, and Joanna Lyons, RN, DEd, developed the Evaluation of Research Protections Programs and Committee Membership Self-Evaluation to measure IRB member service satisfaction and performance of the HRPP.