News Brief: CMS updates HIPAA-compliant practices for texting patient information and medical orders
Am J Nurs. 2024 May 1;124(5):13. doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0001016320.65429.e0. Epub 2024 Apr 25.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38661687 | DOI:10.1097/01.NAJ.0001016320.65429.e0 (Source: The American Journal of Nursing)
Source: The American Journal of Nursing - April 25, 2024 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Improving the Statistical Power of Hospice Research: Lessons from Two Clinical Trials (GP132)
1. Identify recruitment strategies for successful participant recruitment in hospice clinical trials including the implementation of IRB supported HIPAA waivers, agency support for automated referral into research, and management protocols for recruitment goal monitoring.2. Create a protocol for p articipant recruitment using the electronic medical record in hospice clinical trials including required approvals, written processes and consideration for referral reports, and monitoring statistics to evaluate impact of the design. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Debra Parker Oliver, Karla T. Washington, Abigail Rolbiecki, George Demiris Source Type: research
Tissue-Based Genomic Testing in Prostate Cancer: 10-Year Analysis of National Trends on the Use of Prolaris, Decipher, ProMark, and Oncotype DX
CONCLUSIONS: Our analysis indicates a growing trend in the utilization of tissue-based genomic testing for PCa. Nevertheless, they are utilized in less than 2% of PCa patients, whether at initial diagnosis or after surgical treatment. Although it is anticipated that their use may increase as more scientific evidence becomes available, their role requires further elucidation.PMID:38525718 | PMC:PMC10961791 | DOI:10.3390/clinpract14020039 (Source: Clinical Prostate Cancer)
Source: Clinical Prostate Cancer - March 25, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Eugenio Bologna Francesco Ditonno Leslie Claire Licari Antonio Franco Celeste Manfredi Spencer Mossack Savio Domenico Pandolfo Cosimo De Nunzio Giuseppe Simone Costantino Leonardo Giorgio Franco Source Type: research
Tissue-Based Genomic Testing in Prostate Cancer: 10-Year Analysis of National Trends on the Use of Prolaris, Decipher, ProMark, and Oncotype DX
CONCLUSIONS: Our analysis indicates a growing trend in the utilization of tissue-based genomic testing for PCa. Nevertheless, they are utilized in less than 2% of PCa patients, whether at initial diagnosis or after surgical treatment. Although it is anticipated that their use may increase as more scientific evidence becomes available, their role requires further elucidation.PMID:38525718 | PMC:PMC10961791 | DOI:10.3390/clinpract14020039 (Source: Clinical Prostate Cancer)
Source: Clinical Prostate Cancer - March 25, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Eugenio Bologna Francesco Ditonno Leslie Claire Licari Antonio Franco Celeste Manfredi Spencer Mossack Savio Domenico Pandolfo Cosimo De Nunzio Giuseppe Simone Costantino Leonardo Giorgio Franco Source Type: research
Systemized approach to equipping medical students with naloxone: a student-driven initiative to combat the opioid crisis
CONCLUSIONS: We propose that medical schools advocate for a hospital pharmacy-initiated workflow focused on convenience and accessibility to expand naloxone access to medical students as a strategy to strengthen the U.S. emergency response and prevention efforts aimed at reducing opioid-related morbidity and mortality. Expansion of our program to BWH internal medicine residents increased our distribution to over 110 healthcare workers, and efforts to expand the program to other BWH training programs and clinical sites such as the emergency department and outpatient infectious disease clinics are underway. With more than 90...
Source: Pain Physician - March 6, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Shahin A Saberi Sydney Moore Sienna Li Rory Vu Mather Mary B Daniels Amrita Shahani Antje Barreveld Todd Griswold Patrick McGuire Hilary S Connery Source Type: research
Telemedicine in orthopaedics during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparative landscape
ConclusionAlthough the COVID-19 pandemic has posed unique challenges for healthcare providers, there was a great advancement in the rollout and application of telemedicine. To mitigate the spread of infection from coronavirus and given the recent adjustments to reimbursement policies and HIPAA regulations, orthopaedics saw a dramatic expansion of telemedicine since April 2020. The pandemic may have served as a catalyst to adopt telehealth into clinical practice. However, telehealth saw a downtrend trend by December 2020, particularly in procedure-based fields like orthopaedics and oncology. (Source: International Orthopaedics)
Source: International Orthopaedics - February 17, 2024 Category: Orthopaedics Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 230: Reflections about Blockchain in Health Data Sharing: Navigating a Disruptive Technology
Cunha
A comprehensive analysis was performed, considering blockchain technology (BT) properties in digital health, addressing medicolegal, privacy, and regulatory considerations. Adherence to personal data protection and healthcare regulatory guidelines were analyzed and compared for GDPR (Europe), HIPAA (United States), CCPA (California), PIPEDA (Canada), the Privacy Act of 1988 (Australia), APPI (Japan), and LGPD (Brazil). Issues such as health systems, strengthening and aligning policy orientations and initiatives, and emphasizing the role of data analysis in shaping health policies were explored. The study addresse...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - February 16, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ana Corte-Real Tiago Nunes Paulo Rupino da Cunha Tags: Communication Source Type: research
Improving the quality of counseling and clinical supervision in opioid treatment programs: how can technology help?
CONCLUSIONS: Implementing evidence-based counseling practices can help the population served in OTPs; another benefit of focusing on clinical skills is to emphasize and hold up counselors' roles as worthy. Machine learning technology can have a positive impact on clinical practices among counselors and clinical supervisors in opioid treatment programs, settings whose clinical workforce continues to be challenged by the opioid epidemic. Using technology to focus on clinical skill building may enhance counselors' and clinical supervisors' overall experiences in their places of work.PMID:38245783 | PMC:PMC10799386 | DOI:10.11...
Source: Addiction Science and Clinical Practice - January 20, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: K Michelle Peavy Angela Klipsch Christina S Soma Brian Pace Zac E Imel Michael J Tanana Sean Soth Esther Ricardo-Bulis David C Atkins Source Type: research
Ethical Considerations of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Examining the Role of Generative Pretrained Transformer-4
This article focuses on the ethical principles surrounding the use of Generative Pretrained Transformer-4 and its conversational model, ChatGPT, in healthcare settings. One concern is potential inaccuracies in generated content. LLMs can produce believable yet incorrect information, risking errors in medical records. Opacity of training data exacerbates this, hindering accuracy assessment. To mitigate, LLMs should train on precise, validated medical data sets. Model bias is another critical concern because LLMs may perpetuate biases from their training, leading to medically inaccurate and discriminatory responses. Sampling...
Source: The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons - January 4, 2024 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Suraj Sheth Hayden P Baker Hannes Prescher Jason A Strelzow Source Type: research
HIPAA, HIPPA, or HIPPO: What Really Is the Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
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Source: Biotechnology Law Report - November 23, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Ashtyn Oakley Source Type: research
Research is Possible —and Vital—as a Hospitalist
When you’re in the middle of yet another impossibly busy week, making time for research in hospital medicine might seem next to impossible.
But it is possible—and enormously important for the health of the field, a panel of experts said in a session at SHM Converge 2023.
Dr. Collins
“We think that we can do research as hospitalists, and it’s not a myth and it is within reach for us,” said Will Collins, MD, clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.
Sure enough, there are challenges. Hospitalists are often seen as “clinicians first,” he said, the people who get the wo...
Source: The Hospitalist - November 14, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Lisa Casinger Tags: Career Hospital Medicine SHM Converge Source Type: research
Sensors, Vol. 23, Pages 8504: Adaptive Autonomous Protocol for Secured Remote Healthcare Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (AutoPro-RHC)
n-Chung Huang
The outreach of healthcare services is a challenge to remote areas with affected populations. Fortunately, remote health monitoring (RHM) has improved the hospital service quality and has proved its sustainable growth. However, the absence of security may breach the health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA), which has an exclusive set of rules for the privacy of medical data. Therefore, the goal of this work is to design and implement the adaptive Autonomous Protocol (AutoPro) on the patient’s remote healthcare (RHC) monitoring data for the hospital using fully homomorphic ...
Source: Sensors - October 16, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Ruey-Kai Sheu Yuan-Cheng Lin Mayuresh Sunil Pardeshi Chin-Yin Huang Kai-Chih Pai Lun-Chi Chen Chien-Chung Huang Tags: Article Source Type: research
Safety and Outcomes With Combination Therapy With Sarilumab and Baricitinib for Severe COVID-19 Respiratory Infection in Cancer Patients
CONCLUSION: Our study explores the potential safe combination use of different immune modulators targeting multiple pathways of the inflammatory cascade for severe and refractory COVID-19 respiratory infections in high-risk oncology patients. The small number of patients in our observational study was a limitation. A larger sample of patients will be needed to conclude more precisely the efficacy of the combination therapy of sarilumab and baricitinib for refractory cases of severe COVID-19 respiratory infection. Moreover, exploring other cytokine release signaling pathway targets may be the key to significantly reducing i...
Source: Cancer Control - October 11, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Ana Paula Velez Guy Handley Austin Morison Ju Hee Katzman Olga Kinkhova Rod Quiltz John Greene Yanina Pasikhova Source Type: research
Percutaneous Computed Tomography-Guided Cryoablation for Locally-Recurrent Prostate Cancer: Technical Feasibility, Safety, and Efficacy
Computed Tomography (CT); Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Prostate specific antigen (PSA); External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT); Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT); High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU); Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); Positron-Emission Tomography (PET); Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT); Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Working Group 3 (PCWG-3); Prostate Specific-Membrane Antigen (PSMA) (Source: Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology : JVIR)
Source: Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology : JVIR - October 5, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Vijay Ramalingam, Spencer Degerstedt, Marwan Moussa, Leo L. Tsai, David Einstein, Muneeb Ahmed Tags: Clinical Study Source Type: research
HIP, HIPAA, Hooray: Responding to Negative Online Reviews
From home furniture to hotels to healthcare, many of us now rely on online reviews before trying something new.1 Online physician ratings for academic oral and maxillofacial surgeons are generally positive.2 However, there are some patients who may post false, inflammatory, or negative comments.3 The existence of these reviews can have an outsized influence on a provider ’s practice and their reputation given the relatively low volume of online reviews for many oral and maxillofacial surgeons.2 The provider is unable to respond directly in a patient-specific manner to address these negative reviews online due to patient ...
Source: Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery - September 9, 2023 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Srighana Nadella, Neeraj Panchal Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
