Tag: Eric Campbell

  • Health

    Electronic medical records not a panacea?

    The implementation of electronic health record systems may not be enough to significantly improve health quality and reduce costs. In the April 2010 issue of Health Affairs, Harvard researchers from the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) report finding that currently implemented systems have little effect on measures such as patient…

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  • Science & Tech

    Policies regarding IRB members’ industry contacts often lacking

    At a time of heightened concern about conflicts of interest posed by relationships between academic medical researchers and commercial firms, a new study finds that a significant number of academic institutions do not have clear policies covering the industrial relationships of members of institutional review boards (IRBs), committees charged with ensuring that clinical studies uphold…

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  • Health

    Medical schools’ departments, department heads often have industry relationships

    BOSTON – A study led by members of the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Policy (MGH-IHP) has found that institutional academic-industry relationships – financial relationships companies have with medical schools or teaching hospitals rather than with individual physicians or scientists – are as common and pervasive as individual relationships.  Their report, the first nationwide…

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  • Science & Tech

    Study examines data withholding in academic genetics

    Eric G. Campbell, of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and his colleagues recently surveyed geneticists and other life scientists at the 100 U.S. universities that received the most funding from the National Institutes of Health in 1998. Data was received from a total of 1,240 geneticists and…

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