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Accredited human research protection programs (HRPPs) are required to meet a seemingly simple standard that requires a quality improvement program to be focused on efficiency and compliance.
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When it comes to training community partners on human research protection ethics, IRBs would do well to create educational content that best suits the needs of those partners, an IRB chair suggests.
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As IRBs focus more on efficiency and streamlining, the chief concern involves maintaining the necessary elements while discarding or simplifying everything else. This delicate balance is especially true for streamlining informed consent documents.
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All Childrens Hospital, Pediatric Physician Services (PPS), and All Childrens Health System in St. Petersburg, FL, have settled a whistleblower lawsuit brought under the False Claims Act for $7 million.
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There are some instances in which healthcare managers must protect themselves, even if means blowing the whistle on your employer, says Josh Hyatt, MHL, CPHRM, senior risk management specialist with NORCAL Mutual Insurance in San Diego.
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Boston Childrens Hospital was hit with a series of cyber attacks that tried but failed to take down its website, officials told the The Boston Globe.
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) might prompt increases in medical malpractice liability insurance. Other types of insurance could become more expensive.
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In her lawsuit against Prime Health System (PHS), risk manager Karin Berntsen claims that she witnessed leaders at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego encouraging Medicare fraud.