One of the most challenging aspects of completing a clinical research study is recruiting appropriate participants. Based on developing many patient recruting sites, we have developed our top-five list of items to do. 1. Easy to read. It is critical that all medical jargon be very limited in the site. While it is fine to.
An online screening questionnaire is a great way to recruit potential study participants. If done correctly, the questionnaire or survey can ensure that most of the preliminary screening criteria are determined prior to the patient recruiting process. The online survey will ask about the age, gender and screen for the clear eliminators and also get.
HIPAA and Time-based Data At the risk of glossing over details, it is fair to say that given current HIPAA regulatory restrictions and criminal penalties surrounding the release of personal health information (PHI), Dates and DateTime fields within a database need to be hidden from non-PHI privileged users. The rationale behind HIPAA date and datetime.
For the first time, a health care provider has been found guilty of a HIPAA violation and may be subject to jail time for looking at patient records. Click here to read the article. The short version is that a doctor who was terminated from UCLA spent time looking at patient records prior to his.
The HIPAA rules say that any date connected to a patient is Protected Health Information (PHI). If you are working to provide a de-identified dataset, you must develop a method of dealing with date values which are typically collected during research or outcomes tracking. Here are three ways to handle it, with pros and cons.
