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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 One that sometimes people sweep under the rug a bit is the impact on productivity of outdated paper-based processes.

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“Fertility Fraud” Legislation — A Turning Point for Informed Consent?

NEJM

Such legislation could herald an expansion of informed-consent doctrine State fertility-fraud laws prohibit deliberately misrepresenting the source of sperm, eggs, or embryos used to treat infertility.

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Should TikTok Doctors Owe Any Duty of Care Toward Their Followers?

Bill of Health

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. This trend poses new ethical questions for physicians who want to create and engage with their communities on social media.

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Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure

Bill of Health

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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The Dr. Oz Paradox

Bill of Health

Professionals within a professional relationship are subject to a variety of legal constraints, such as informed consent requirements or professional malpractice liability if things go wrong. By Claudia E. Haupt.

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Responding to the Comeback of He Jiankui, ‘The CRISPR Baby Scientist’: Lessons from Criminal Justice Theory

Bill of Health

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.

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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

Bill of Health

The AAMC requires medical school graduates to “demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent.” By Leah Pierson. I recently argued that we need to evaluate medical school ethics curricula.

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Rebuilding Trust in Public Health and Public Health Law

Bill of Health

Understanding how public health “worked” from the community perspective can and should inform public health efforts moving forward. Blog Symposia Health Law Policy History HIV/AIDS Immunization Informed Consent Public Health Race Social Determinants of Health The End of Public Health?

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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Bill of Health

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.

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Could Self-Operated Assisted Suicide Devices Be Coming to a Town near You?

Bill of Health

By Matthew Chun. A scientist’s high-tech approach to assisted suicide is already available for use in Switzerland and is actively being campaigned for in the United Kingdom. Could the United States be next? Dr. Philip Nitschke — nicknamed “Dr.

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Reflections on Procedural Barriers to Pediatric COVID Vaccine Access

Bill of Health

As a first step, we need our health agencies to keep the public informed. Physicians, particularly pediatricians, frequently prescribe off-label and use informed consent to provide the best care for their patients. By Fatima Khan.

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A New Theory for Gene Ownership

Bill of Health

Without her knowledge or consent, her doctors derived from the cells the HeLa cell line — the world’s first immortal human cell line, worth billions and a driver of the biotechnology revolution. No doubt her doctors’ behavior was not consistent with today’s standards of informed consent.

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Adding COVID-19 to the informed consent process: A Q&A for health care providers

Health Law Checkup

To minimize their risk should a patient be exposed to COVID-19 while seeking medical care, health care providers should consider supplementing their informed consent process to include information about COVID-19 risks

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Governing Health Data for Research, Development, and Innovation: The Missteps of the European Health Data Space Proposal

Bill of Health

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) already included “scientific research” as an exception for the requirement of consent from the data subject for secondary uses of sensitive data (e.g.

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We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula

Bill of Health

More schools could consider using simulations of common ethical scenarios, where they might ask students to perform capacity assessments or seek informed consent for procedures. By Leah Pierson. Health professions students are often required to complete training in ethics.

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Call for Submissions – Symposium on Disability and Climate Change

Bill of Health

Announcements Bioethics Blog Symposia Call for Abstracts Disability Environment Health Law Policy Informed Consent Patient Care Petrie-Flom Center Public Health Publications Social Determinants of Health call for abstracts call for submissions climate climate change Ethics Law public policy

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How to Assess the Impact of Medical Ethics Education

Bill of Health

But many routine practices — assessing capacity, acquiring informed consent, advance care planning, and allocating resources, for instance — are. By Leah Pierson.

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How to Mitigate Ethical Challenges of AI-Driven Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

The use of AI is revolutionizing the delivery of healthcare, but its use comes with significant ethical challenges that cannot be ignored, the most important of which involve bias and informed consent. . Koza ethics Healthcare AI Healthcare AI Ethics Informed Consent Natalie C.

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Bringing eConsent to the Intensive Care Unit

Healthcare IT Today

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.

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Introducing Affiliated Researchers for the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation

Bill of Health

His writing will be informed by his experience with the war on drugs and community mental health, both as a patient and a clinician. (Clockwise from top left: Kwasi Adusei, Ismail Lourido Ali, Jonathan Perez-Reyzin, Dustin Marlan.).

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Can Children Consent to the COVID Vaccine? The Case of Foster Care and Juvenile Justice

Bill of Health

In this post, I argue that young people should have the opportunity to consent to vaccines. Allowing children to consent to vaccinations may facilitate this end. Can Young People Consent to the Vaccine? Where Can Children Find the Right to Consent? By Victoria Kalumbi.

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Remember the Babies: The Need for Off-Label Pediatric Use of COVID-19 Vaccines

Bill of Health

At that point, physicians and parents could make informed decisions as to whether to administer a COVID-19 vaccine or wait until they’ve received an EUA for young children. By Carmel Shachar. As trials stall and the omicron variant surges, the U.S.

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Study: Decentralized and remote tech increases interest in clinical trial participation

Mobi Health News

More than 80% of cancer patients and survivors who responded to the survey were willing to use the majority of remote interventions, like oral medications delivered to the home, electronic informed consent and wearables

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Ivermectin controversy continues

Natalia Mazina

In my blog post “ Risk of dispensing ivermectin ,” I stressed the importance of obtaining informed consent prior to dispensing ivermectin. According to the complaint, the prescriber sought to obtain informed consent retroactively.

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Long Trail for Extra Tissue Samples

HealthIT Answers

The concerns raised go to privacy and informed consent as the primary issues. By Matt Fisher - In healthcare, many layers always exist around seemingly each and every issue. The ongoing utilization of extra blood from newborn heel stick samples provides the latest example.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Expanded Access but Were Afraid to Ask, Part 1

Bill of Health

While EA is intended for treatment and is not research, federal regulations require IRBs to review and approve EA protocols and requests, the consent process, consent documents, surrogate consent, and related documents. By Alison Bateman-House, Hayley M.

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Harms and Biases Associated with the Social Determinants of Health Technology Movement

Bill of Health

Referrals can simply involve providing the patient with information about a social service agency or community-based organizations that may have resources to address needs identified by the patient. Informed Consent and Refusal. By Artair Rogers.

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Bioethics Conference Poses Twenty-First Century Questions

Healthcare IT Today

All the standard ethical issues we talk about in medicine appear in the new genetic and biological research, often with greater urgency: safety and effectiveness, equitable access, privacy and informed consent, data sharing, and individual […].

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Signant Health collaborates with Shanghai Mental Health Centre for neuroscience study

Mobi Health News

Pennsylvania-based Signant Health (formerly CRF Health and Bracket), which provides a suite of electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA), eConsent and Patient Engagement solutions, announced that it will provide electronic informed consent for a significant neuroscience study by the Shanghai Mental Health Centre (SMHC).

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Important practice-points for pharmacists independently initiating and furnishing Paxlovid

Natalia Mazina

iii) if no sufficient information is available to determine patient’s medical history and potential drug interaction, or if the pharmacist determines that taking Paxlovid may cause adverse reaction, the pharmacist must refer the patient for clinical evaluation.

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Adoption and the Meaning of Consent

Bill of Health

Adoption and abortion both rely on concepts of consent, each an exercise in autonomy. When I think of adoption consent, I think of Dawn’s case. Because the courts concluded that Dawn voluntarily consented, the adoption would stand. By Malinda L. Seymore.

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A Brief History of Abortion Jurisprudence in the United States

Bill of Health

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.

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Orientation to the Operating Room for Sales Professionals

American Medical Compliance

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.

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Crescendo Health Launches to Improve and Accelerate Clinical Trials By Unlocking Patient Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

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.

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FDA releases guidance for remotely acquiring data in clinical investigations

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Sponsors are encouraged to engage with the DHT manufacturer or other parties in order to leverage any existing information, as appropriate, to support the DHT’s suitability for use in the specific clinical investigation," according to the draft guidance. The U.S.

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