Bill of Health
MARCH 15, 2023
By Sarah Gabriele Doctors are now using social media platforms to spread medical knowledge and to interact with the communities that they are actively building. A recent survey showed that almost 1 in 5 Americans now turn to TikTok before their doctor for health advice.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Likewise, hospitals cannot necessarily avoid liability by arguing that patients consent to unmasked care. Many patients cannot voluntarily consent to this: they require urgent care, are too young, or have a cognitive impairment. By Nina Kohn and Irina D.
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Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Such bad advice, which could get any doctor in legal trouble if disseminated to their patients, may be given to the public at large without fear of sanction. We march into battle with the army we have, and doctors around the world are choosing hydroxychloroquine more than any other solution.
Bill of Health
JUNE 13, 2022
As medical care advanced — and categories like “ brain death ” emerged — doctors found themselves facing challenging new dilemmas and old ones more often. Correspondingly, most medical school ethics courses review issues related to consent, end-of-life care, and confidentiality.
Bill of Health
MARCH 9, 2022
Amid accelerating interest in the use of psychedelics in medicine, a spate of recent exposés have detailed the proliferation of abuse in psychedelic therapy, underscoring the urgent need for ethical guidance in psychedelic-assisted therapies (P-AT), and particularly relating to touch and consent.
Bill of Health
MARCH 8, 2023
As the scientific community grapples with how to respond, theories of criminal justice can provide important perspectives to better inform the conversation surrounding Dr. He’s return to research.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Protect Their Future created a space where doctors and parents could advocate with a unified voice. Doctors and parents used the group to collectively make public calls to agencies like the FDA and U.S. As a first step, we need our health agencies to keep the public informed.
Bill of Health
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Death” by some — has made it his mission to “ demedicalize death ” by removing doctors from the process of assisted suicide and bringing suicide devices directly into the hands of individuals seeking to end their own lives. By Matthew Chun.
Bill of Health
AUGUST 31, 2022
After conducting a biopsy on her tumor, her doctors learned that her cancer cells reproduced uniquely effectively. No doubt her doctors’ behavior was not consistent with today’s standards of informed consent. By James Toomey.
Bill of Health
JUNE 29, 2022
But many routine practices — assessing capacity, acquiring informed consent, advance care planning, and allocating resources, for instance — are. By Leah Pierson.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Director & General Manager, Patient Consent at IQVIA. The Challenge of Informed Consent in the ICU. Still, obtaining informed consent to participate in a clinical trial in these scenarios can be challenging.
Bill of Health
AUGUST 11, 2022
Health systems should also be built upon a basic set of guidelines and principles, made through legislation or legally enforceable guidance documents, that ensure ethical doctor and patient relationships in medical decision-making and treatment. By Luciano Bottini Filho.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 16, 2023
Patients participating in clinical trials generate valuable health data throughout their healthcare journey, so researchers shouldn’t be limited to information gathered in the four walls of a research clinic. For more information, please visit crescendo.health.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 6, 2023
Crescendo partners with research sponsors like pharma/biopharma, medical device makers and contract research orgs to get informed consent from study participants, then collects all of their longitudinal data from their providers, payers, EHRs, pharmacy claims, and even previous clinical trials.
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
SDOH interventions typically involve screening patients within a clinical setting using trusted health care providers (nurses, doctors, community health workers, case managers, social workers, etc.) Informed Consent and Refusal. By Artair Rogers.
Bill of Health
JUNE 9, 2022
The first required a woman seeking an abortion to furnish “informed consent” prior to the procedure and stipulated that “she be provided with certain information at least 24 hours before the abortion is performed.” By James R. Jolin.
American Medical Compliance
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
They are helpful in the operating room because they are technologically informed. This may require patient consent, and other administrative practices to be taken. Patient consent is a fundamental aspect of the approval process that cannot be ignored.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
Read more… Addressing Informed Consent Challenges in the ICU. Patients in intensive care are often unable to provide consent , which means they may miss opportunities to receive investigational treatments. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup.
Kaiser Health News
MAY 31, 2022
So when her primary care doctor suggested she be screened for colorectal cancer in September, Melville dutifully prepped for her colonoscopy and went to New London Hospital’s outpatient department for the zero-cost procedure.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 27, 2022
By the end of the year, I expect the majority of sites will have an electronic Investigator Site File (eISF) and electronic informed consent (eConsent). Marc Leighton, VP of Product at Florence Healthcare.
Natalia Mazina
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
The biggest issue with these prescriptions is that they are often prescribed by “online doctors” for large doses.
SQA
MAY 17, 2022
For Investigator Sites, the subject areas are Organizational Aspects, Informed Consent of Trial Participants, Review of Trial Participant Data, and Management of Investigational Medicinal Product(s). USB or CD), and the frequent electronic exchange of medical device-related health information. Patients currently taking the products should consult with their doctor or healthcare provider about alternative treatment options.
Hall Render
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Aguiar-Curry about informed consent legislation Hollister’s only hospital has bought itself more time, but could still run out of cash in March Dignity Health California named in Newsweek’s list of America’s most diverse workplaces Davis-founded infant nutrition startup Infinant Health names former Cargill director Mike Johnson new CEO Can telemedicine kick type 2 diabetes to the curb?
Drug & Device Law
JUNE 6, 2022
Further, “both doctors testified that they still prescribe [the drug] for patients with conditions similar to plaintiff’s condition.” that he had considered the information that Plaintiff claims was wrongfully omitted. . .,
Drug & Device Law
MAY 30, 2022
The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. Causation was defeated, in part, by the prescribing physician’s testimony that “he did not consider the information contained in the [updated] label to be significant enough to change his prescribing practices.”
Drug & Device Law
AUGUST 8, 2022
This goes beyond the attacks on industry groups for disseminating information that plaintiffs didn’t like, which we had previously thought to be a liability frontier. Anyway, this fraudulent “doctor” allegedly “touched them without informed consent” and caused them “emotional distress.
Drug & Device Law
APRIL 22, 2022
Or can the plaintiff establish causation by showing that the physician would have informed the plaintiff of the stronger warning and that a prudent person in the patient’s position would have declined treatment? If my doctor had informed me, I would not have consented to the treatment.
Drug & Device Law
AUGUST 22, 2022
This time, plaintiff pleaded “1) violation of [defendant’s] premarket approval; 2) breach of implied warranty; and 3) lack of informed consent (failure to warn).” Id. She also tried to sue three new defendants – a doctor, a medical society and the FDA itself. Jacob v.
Drug & Device Law
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Then, after said father and son came down with Covid, they refused the treatments recommended by the doctors. The father and son were convinced that doctors were recommending the wrong treatments because the doctors received bonuses for recommending such treatments.
Drug & Device Law
JUNE 7, 2022
The court rejected plaintiff’s argument that changes in the doctor/patient relationship and increased DTC advertising have eroded the policy justification for the learned intermediary rule. But that does not mean that a doctor “abdicates [his] duty to exercise independent judgment.”
Drug & Device Law
DECEMBER 9, 2022
However, the undisputed facts also reflect that [the doctor] never testified she would have changed her prescribing decision or given a different warning.” Note that this is just a little murky: what the doctor would have told the patient does seem to be on the table in the court’s analysis.
Drug & Device Law
MARCH 9, 2022
So much for judicial gate-keeping, Inadequate Warnings to Doctors. But the defendant pointed to 21 CFR section 801.109(c), which says that labels may omit information “commonly known” to licensed medical practitioners. No Informed Consent.
Drug & Device Law
AUGUST 31, 2022
The plaintiffs in Salier sued pharmacies that refused to fill prescriptions for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine written by an out-of-state, online “controversial” doctor. But the plaintiffs conceded that the online doctor did not, in fact, breach her contract.
Drug & Device Law
AUGUST 30, 2022
At her second appointment, her surgeon informed her that her MRI revealed a uterine fibroid that required surgery. Within days, the hospital convened a “power morcellation group” tasked with drafting an informed consent form that would reflect the FDA’s concerns.
Drug & Device Law
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Larkin did not discuss the standard for proximate causation or suggest, as Thacker implies, that informed consent is part of the inquiry. It focused squarely on the doctor. Maybe we have been doing this too long.
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