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The New Era of Clinical Trials: Adopting Electronic Informed Consent

HIT Consultant

Director, Product & Strategy, Patient Consent, IQVIA Technologies The clinical trials landscape continues to evolve and with it, an exponential growth in the adoption of electronic informed consent (eConsent) solutions. eConsent solutions utilize dashboards and reports to visually display progress in the consent processes.

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Informed Consent in Healthcare Training

American Medical Compliance

When a medical professional informs a patient of the advantages, disadvantages, and alternatives of a procedure or intervention, informed consent is obtained. According to the Joint Commission, all aspects of informed consent must be documented “in a form, progress notes, or elsewhere in the record.”

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Psychedelics in the Clinical Setting: The Potential for Harm and the Promise of Healing

Bill of Health

Despite the seemingly boundless optimism for their potential as pharmacological treatments, there are a number of unique issues that psychedelics present in a clinical setting that are yet to be adequately addressed. It is the ineffability, or inability to put the experience into words , that presents the issue for informed consent.

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AI’s Ability to Manipulate Decision Making Requires a Moratorium on Its Use in Obtaining Consent for Biomedical Research

Bill of Health

The federal government’s commitment to assuring that participants in human subject research provide fully informed consent dates back to the U.S The World Health Organization supports this ban and in particular describes it as making informed consent impossible in the health care setting.

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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

Bill of Health

In place of this purely “anti-psychedelic” critique, Langlitz notes that the present discourse of critical “anti-hype” had been initiated by “forces within ” the psychedelic field, as scholars and activists raise concerns about the ethical and political impact of psychedelic medicalization and its capitalistic roots. (I

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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.

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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. . thus presenting significant issues relating to technical and emergent bias. .