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Institutional review boards need new skills to review data sharing and management plans
Source: Nature New federal rules require researchers to submit plans for how to manage and share their scientific data, but institutional ethics boards may be underprepared to review them.
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ONC’s New Proposed Rule: The Next Step to Advancing the Care Continuum Through Technology and Interoperability
Source: Health IT Buzz ONC released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) titled, “Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing”
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Animal Use in Research: NIH Should Strengthen Oversight of Projects It Funds at Foreign Facilities
Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office The NIH provided approximately $2.2 billion in contracts or grants to foreign organizations for research projects involving animals.
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HIPAA Privacy Rule Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy Fact Sheet
Source: HHS On April 12,2023, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).
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OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it
Source: MIT Technology Review The company’s AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight.
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Most large U.S. funders of clinical research have poor transparency policies, analysis finds
Source: STAT News A new analysis finds that only 37% of the 14 largest public and philanthropic organizations that fund clinical research in the U.S. have implemented the best disclosure practices recommended by the WHO.
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Pandemic-Era Telehealth Rules Set to Expire in May, Shifting HIPAA Compliance Obligations
Source: Health IT Security When the public health emergency expires, OCR’s four Notifications of Enforcement Discretion under HIPAA will also end, including lightened telehealth requirements.
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Advocating for an Ethical Shift in International Higher Education
Source: Georgetown Journal of International Affairs International higher education in major Western countries has been pursued both as an export industry to obtain economic profit and as an immigrant recruitment platform to obtain top talents.
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A biotech upstart takes on cancer by crowdsourcing the immune system’s natural killers
Source: STAT News ImmuneBridge, a San Francisco-based startup, is developing cancer immunotherapies based on so-called natural killer cells.
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Recently named cancer institute director may become head of NIH
Source: Science Cancer researcher Monica Bertagnolli would take position vacated in 2021 by geneticist Francis Collins.
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