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Research ethicists and others have long described the value of recruiting more minorities in clinical research (CR) trials, but the question is whether or not IRBs have a role to play in advancing this goal.
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In assessing the recent revisions to the Common Rule proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the accrediting agency for human subjects protection programs suggests that HHS may lack the necessary information to move forward with a final rule.
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Most major corporations and business sectors have adopted business quality improvement (QI) measures like Six Sigma, Lean Process, and others. But in human subjects research, this type of QI approach is fairly new, an expert says.
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After a new price estimator system was implemented at St. Joseph East in Lexington, KY, results weren't seen immediately. These results came only after a significant amount of hands-on training, reports Stephanie Stamper, patient access coordinator.
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Are you facing pressure to cut education resources in your patient access department? Reducing resources simply isn't an option, according to Wendy M. Roach, RDMS, manager of patient access and central scheduling at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, IL.
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Before you attempt to measure how skilled your staff are, you might want to be certain your own skills are up to par.
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Service became a pressing issue when registrars at Blanchard Valley Health System in Findlay, OH, started ED and high-dollar outpatient copay collection.
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Training of new hires has become much more comprehensive, due to the expanded patient access role, according to Betsy Keating, interim patient access director at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, IL. Keating is a senior consulting manager at Chadds Ford, PA-based IMA Consulting, which provides revenue cycle services for the healthcare industry.
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The implementation of a new health information system at TriHealth in Cincinnati, OH, "has given has given us an amazing opportunity to look very closely at all of our processes," says Stacey Bodenstein, general manager of admitting and registration.
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Previously, registration errors were sent to individual access employees, who were required to correct the error, says Stacey Bodenstein, general manager of admitting and registration at TriHealth in Cincinnati, OH. However, corrections weren't being made quickly enough due to varying shifts.