Research Integrity & Compliance
Funds from agencies, foundations, or industry for a specific project support this type of research.
What is Sponsored Research?
This patient privacy law may be violated if pharmacy staff discuss medication details in public areas.
What is HIPAA?
This is when it is acceptable to accept a gift from a vendor.
What is never?
This Federal Government agency frequently conducts billing audits and is known by the acronym CMS.
What is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services?
Patient information should never be shared on this type of platform.
What is Social Media?
These are a researcher's associations with entities beyond the United States that should be disclosed to DFCI and grant supporters.
What is a Foreign Affiliation?
This term describes the theft or misuse of medications by healthcare personnel for unauthorized use.
What is Diversion?
Knowingly submitting false information to the government in order to receive payment is this.
What is Fraud?
Intentionally billing for services that were never provided is an example of this.
What is billing fraud?
This action protects a workstation from unauthorized access.
What is locking the workstation?
When Dana-Farber has a financial interest in a product being evaluated by its own investigators, this may arise and require disclosure and management.
What is an Institutional Conflict of Interest?
This accrediting organization often surveys hospitals for medication management compliance and related standards.
What is the Joint Commission?
This item - which should never include PHI - should always be included when faxing confidential information.
What is a Fax Cover Sheet?
A provider’s decision to select a higher-level code when ordering services must be supported by this.
What is appropriate documentation?
Using your personal device for work requires this.
What is encryption?
Dana-Farber offers these AI-guided tools to help researchers identify image errors, plagiarism, and AI-generated text.
What is Proofig?
Concerns about a patient's medications, alcohol use, or other substance-related needs should be discussed with this team.
What is the Patient's Care Team?
Working with a competitor or steering business in a way that would benefit you or your family personally and/or financially is an example of this compliance issue.
What is a Conflict of Interest?
This type of order should only be used in emergency situations, and never for the convenience of the provider.
This phrase should appear in the subject line of an external email containing confidential information such as PHI.
What is "Send Secure?"
Federal requirements call for institutions like Dana-Farber that receive significant federal funding to maintain this tpe of program, including cybersecurity protections for research data, research security training, and review of foreign travel.
What is a Research Security Program?
DEA rules require a physical inventory of controlled substances at least this often.
What is every two years?
Offering or accepting payment or something of value in exchange for healthcare services or referrals is illegal and known as this.
What is a kickback?
This standard means only providing and billing for health care services or supplies needed to diagnose or treat an illness, injury, condition, disease or its symptoms and that meet accepted standards of medicine.
What is medically necessary?
If you lose any device used for DFCI business, you should immediately contact this department.
What is DFCI Security?