There has been an increased focus over the past couple of years on patient rights, resulting in a renewed emphasis on informed consent by healthcare regulators, such as The Joint Commission. This ...

Health data’s potential can be vertigo-inducing, with seemingly limitless insights available to be mined from data sets old and new. The risks, too, can turn the stomach: faulty and biased algorithms; ...

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As Tennessee schools work to get parental consent to allow school nurses to clean and bandage minor cuts and provide ice packs, about 40% of parents of Metro Nashville Public Schools students have ...

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) – Washington County, Tennessee Schools are sending out consent forms to parents and guardians for permission to administer medical care to students. Washington County ...

Under Colorado law, students under the age of 18 who receive medical treatment at Wardenburg Health Center must first have a parent or guardian sign the Parental/Guardian Consent for Treatment of a ...

In any language, the NYPD wants permission to search your home. Three years after the NYPD starting using English and Spanish “consent to search” forms, it has added forms in five other languages: ...