Electonic Consent for Biobanking
November 6, 2012 | Terry Sharrer
Collecting blood and other biological samples from patients for a biorepository is the basis for a hospital doing research on personalized medicine. Time-stamping the samples for handling, and electronically connecting the specimens to an EMR are necessary procedures. But the last link in making biobanking an automated process is an electronically signed informed consent. This piece describes how Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati built the informed consent into its Epic EMR. MORE
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