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Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research.

The Value and Importance of Health Information Privacy

Ethical health research and privacy protections both provide valuable benefits to society. Health research is vital to improving human health and health care. Protecting patients involved in research from harm and preserving their rights is essential to ethical…

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Added by John Robinson on September 1, 2017 at 5:42am — No Comments

Hipaa—Should I Be Worried?

This ongoing column is dedicated to providing information to our readers on managing legal risks associated with medical practice. We invite questions from our readers. The answers are provided by PRMS, Inc.  a manager of medical professional liability insurance programs with services that include risk management consultation, education and onsite risk management audits, and other resources…

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Added by John Robinson on September 1, 2017 at 5:41am — No Comments

Get Full FDA Compliance Courses ONLY for $10 each

FDA compliance! What a nightmare it is for even the most seasoned professional in the regulated industries! No offence, but have you come across one single regulatory professional who loves the job of going about meeting regulatory requirements set out by the FDA? You are certain not to, for that is the level of painstaking detail and expectation from the FDA that need to be complied with for every product, all the time, every time.

The deep and stringent nature of these FDA…

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Added by John Robinson on August 24, 2017 at 6:22am — No Comments

Enroll for FDA, Medical Device; Pharmaceutical Courses Just $10 each

Well, you can spend $10 to do a number of things. You can have a cup of coffee for you and your friend. You can buy an ice-cream each to two of your kids. You could buy them a couple of comic books. Or, you could choose to grow up in your profession. Wait a minute. Is there something wrong with the last of these options? Growing up in one’s profession? For $10? Yes,…

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Added by John Robinson on August 22, 2017 at 7:17am — No Comments

Special Offer 2017 for Medical Devices Webinar Attendees! ONLY $10 each

$10 can buy you many items of daily user. These items serve their purpose: Once you’ve finished using them, you buy them again. Have you heard about a special offer in which you gain unlimited knowledge with which you scale up in your profession?

Yes, this is the kind of special offer that GlobalCompliancePanel, a leading provider of professional trainings for the…

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Added by John Robinson on August 22, 2017 at 7:16am — No Comments

Special Deal 2017 - JUST $10 for Healthcare Compliance Course Attendees!

For regulatory professionals who work in the field of healthcare, compliance with the regulatory requirements is a must. We are all aware of it. But if the cost of healthcare compliance courses is causing you to put off your trainings, GlobalCompliancePanel has the answer: Its special deal in 2017 for healthcare compliance course attendees makes trainings in healthcare compliance available for $10. Yes, you’ve read that right. All it takes is $10 to enroll for a course in healthcare…

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Added by John Robinson on August 22, 2017 at 7:15am — No Comments

Life Sciences Course Offer 2017 by GlobalCompliancePanel Just $10

Did you know that an online life sciences course offer 2017 by GlobalCompliancePanel @ 10$ is on? Want me repeat this to confirm its veracity? Yes. It is true, and it is real. An online life sciences course offer 2017 by GlobalCompliancePanel @ 10$ is underway! But is it possible for anyone to offer online life sciences…

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Added by John Robinson on August 22, 2017 at 7:12am — No Comments

Risk Management Webinars Online - Just Pay @ $10

Risk Management Webinars Online - Just Pay @ $10. This is not the catchphrase for an ad that is showing up the wrong product by mistake. You could be forgiven for thinking so, for it is natural and predictable to mistake these catchy words for being ads for some daily use items. But then, these words are not the slogans for products or services that are meant for daily use.…

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Added by John Robinson on August 22, 2017 at 7:00am — No Comments

Don’t miss out! Offer @ $10 - Online Professional Courses

7 This is a great deal. What else does one call this offer $10 deal to enhance professional skill from GlobalCompliancePanel? Wait. We are talking about $10, but did we tell you what you get for $10? Did you think it is the cost of registration for the event?…

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Added by John Robinson on August 22, 2017 at 5:56am — No Comments

Learn any professional courses for $10 only

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Want to enhance your regulatory compliance career by learning a new course? All that it costs is $10. Yes, GlobalCompliancePanel, a provider of professional trainings, is offering hundreds of high value regulatory compliance courses for a mere $10…

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Added by John Robinson on August 18, 2017 at 7:08am — No Comments

How do campuses respond to students with mental issues?

Perhaps no educational campus is free of students with some or another kind of mental or emotional issues. Considering the wide diversity of students that enroll into American colleges and the varied backgrounds they come from; it is no surprise that American colleges will have to deal with such students.

There is a need for institutions that come across students with emotional or mental issues to learn to deal with the issue. While on the one hand, administrators of educational…

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Added by Roger Steven on August 9, 2017 at 7:41am — No Comments

How Americans get their health insurance

With Obamacare firmly in the crosshairs of Republican lawmakers, the debate around U.S. healthcare is at a fever pitch.

While there is no shortage of opinions on the best route forward, the timeliness of the debate also gives us an interesting chance to dive into some of the numbers around healthcare – namely how people even get coverage in the first place.

How Americans get healthcare

The following infographic shows a breakdown of how…

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Added by John Robinson on August 9, 2017 at 5:59am — No Comments

Does fixing a retirement age for physicians help improve the healthcare system?

The medical profession is different from most others in one vital aspect: Practitioners of this profession don’t retire. The profession allows the physician to continue for as long as her physical and mental faculties allow her to. The US’ Supreme Court judges too, don’t retire, but theirs is judicial service, during which they are paid by the government, while a…

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Added by Roger Steven on August 8, 2017 at 7:00am — No Comments

Health Buzz: The 10 Best States for Health Care

 

Health Buzz The 10 Best States for Health Care If you want to get the best health care, you might be better off living in one of these states, according to a new ranking.

Hawaii, Iowa and Minnesota topped WalletHub’s new ranking of the best states for health care. The ranking took into…

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Added by John Robinson on August 8, 2017 at 5:48am — No Comments

Understanding HACCP and risk based HACCP

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) is an important system aimed at bringing down the risk of safety hazards found in food consumed all over the world. It is an internationally recognized system. When it was enacted in January 2011 as part of the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act; it was considered a very sweeping piece of legislation for the food industry.

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Identification and control of…

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Added by Adam Fleming on August 1, 2017 at 5:39am — No Comments

An integrated approach is needed for Complaints Handling, Adverse Event Reporting, and Recalls

Adverse Event Reporting, and Recalls4

The fact that medical device manufacturers work and operate in various regulatory systems whose requirements are different and not always consistent with each other is recognized and empathized by the…

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Added by John Robinson on July 21, 2017 at 5:56am — No Comments

Safety Management and OSHA Compliance

Safety Management and OSHA Compliance 1

Why is Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance necessary? For a simple reason: OSHA compliance is the surest legal way of ensuring safety at the workplace. Safety management and OSHA compliance go hand in hand and are deeply connected to and intertwined with each…

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Added by John Robinson on June 28, 2017 at 6:15am — No Comments

HIPAA compliance expectations from Small Healthcare Providers

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Added by John Robinson on June 14, 2017 at 6:28am — No Comments

Thorough understanding of the CERT program is necessary to fix error rates

The Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) is a program used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for calculating the rate or extent of improper payments of Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS). The method used by the CMS under CERT is to pick up a stratified random sample of some 40,000 claims that are statistically valid and calculate and audit it to determine if the payments were made in accordance with the rules relevant to items such as coding, Medicare coverage, and…

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Added by Roger Steven on May 10, 2017 at 8:45am — No Comments

Overcoming the pain of HIPAA enforcement

In many years that it has been in existence, one of the noticeable changes that HIPAA has undergone is in its attitude. The earlier phase of advice and counseling has now given way to hardboiled and unforgiving enforcement. The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) no longer uses the cajoling and persuasive method. It wants to impose super harsh penalties on healthcare organizations which violate its rules.

For starters, healthcare organizations have to reckon with new, ominously higher fines,…

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Added by Roger Steven on May 10, 2017 at 8:43am — No Comments

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