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CMS Releases New Guidance Regarding Informed Consent for Sensitive Exams

Hall Render

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a memorandum to state survey agency directors highlighting revisions and clarification to the Hospital Interpretive Guidelines for Informed Consent (the “Guidance”).

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Quality Data Leads to Better Outcomes, Alignment & Informed Consent at ViVE2023

Healthcare IT Today

Modernizing Informed Consent – Interlace Health Informed Consent Nova is the next generation of Interlace Health’s technology that gets rid of paper consent forms which many healthcare organizations still use for informed consent.

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DHHS Revises and Clarifies Guidelines for Patients’ Informed Consent When Providing Sensitive Medical Care

Foster Swift

In both circumstances, the former doctors carried out their sexual abuse under the guise of medical procedures and without the informed consent of their targets. Read More › Tags: Health Care Reform , Hospitals , Lawsuit , Medicare/Medicaid , Privacy

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Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure

Bill of Health

Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Ending routine masking in hospital settings is a dangerous move. It also exposes hospitals to the risk of liability.

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2 Important eSignature Use Cases: Informed Consent and Registration

Healthcare IT Today

We know that there are a lot of reasons for burnout in healthcare. One that sometimes people sweep under the rug a bit is the impact on productivity of outdated paper-based processes. One of those outdated paper processes that seems to still be lingering around in many healthcare organizations is paper based signatures. This is […].

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Inpatient telemedicine improves care and patient satisfaction at Howard University Hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With no vaccination or specific treatment on the horizon, Howard University Hospital, an academic medical center in the district, prepared for a major surge of COVID-19 patients. With a large Black community in Washington, Howard University Hospital prepared for disproportionately more patients and more severely ill patients.

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Bringing eConsent to the Intensive Care Unit

Healthcare IT Today

For this reason, the ability to provide the option for electronic informed consent (eConsent) to join a trial in place of traditional paper-based process plays a pivotal role in quickly enrolling the patient so that they may receive critical intervention as quickly as possible. The Challenge of Informed Consent in the ICU.