Anonymity

URAC and CARF International Announce New Survey Tool for Health Care Case Management Studies

...n, Ph.D., president/CEO of CARF International. "Hearing the voice of consumers in an organization is essential to ensuring high quality services. The anonymity offered by the survey tool will ensure consumer privacy while giving users an opportunity to share their thoughts about their health care experience."...

Conceptual Options, a Center for Surrogacy & Egg Donation, Announces Third Party Assurance Program

... to select a center that is a leader in the fertility industry. "Being an attorney owned center affords our clients with a sense of security and anonymity that is unmatched. We understand that surrogacy & egg donation is a private matter, and we take your confidentiality to the next level," sta...

YOUNG ARTISTS Competition: Beginning May 7th, World AIDS Orphans Day

...nts. Artists can enter their work through July 15, 2009. The mission of WWO is to transform the lives of orphaned children by taking them out of anonymity and helping them become healthy, independent, productive members of their communities. With over 15 million children worldwide orphaned due to the los...

Patients' Photos Help Boost Radiologists' Accuracy

...t at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, said in a news release issued by the conference's organizer. "We feel it is important to counteract the anonymity that is common in radiologic exams, especially with the growth of teleradiology." For the study, radiologists reviewed patients' files electronic...

Patient Photos Spur Radiologist Empathy and Eye for Detail

...gy, radiologists are now able to view images from remote locations via the Internet or satellite. "We feel it is important to counteract the anonymity that is common in radiologic exams, especially with the growth of teleradiology," Dr. Turner said. The researchers set out to determine if t...

Patient photos spur radiologist empathy and eye for detail

...adiology, radiologists are now able to view images from remote locations via the Internet or satellite. "We feel it is important to counteract the anonymity that is common in radiologic exams, especially with the growth of teleradiology," Dr. Turner said. The researchers set out to determine if the addi...

Innovative New Program Offers Free Online Services to Urologists

...rify the physician's credentials. I founded urologychannel ten years ago to help people who were suffering in silence with urologic conditions use the anonymity of the Internet to research their condition and seek the care of a urologist. Our website clients receive the biggest benefit from the offerings in th...

Malibu Alcohol and Drug Rehab Center Celebrates Fourth Anniversary

... profile location of The Canyon Addiction Treatment Center, the proprietors and staff have spent the better part of the last four years protecting the anonymity of their clients - and more importantly making sure that they receive nothing but the finest care with the best amenities to help them be comfortable....

SIRIUS Satellite Radio & NYU Langone Medical Center Launch 'Doctor Radio' Channel

... Intimacy, desire, technique - no question is taboo for Dr. Virginia Sadock, one of the most respected human sexuality experts in America. Through the anonymity of the telephone, listeners can finally talk about their fantasies, inhibitions, their partner's desires as well as their own. Sadock is a psychiatris...

RAINN Helping Victims of Sexual Assault Online

...y partners to build the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline's innovative communications infrastructure from the ground up, integrating security and anonymity at every level. The Online Hotline does not capture users' IP addresses, nor does it record transcripts of sessions. McAfee, Inc., the global leader i...

Anonymity in Biological News

ETH Zurich-administered fund ends scientific anonymity

Reporting in Nature Genetics, and working in conjunction with Society in Science, the ETH Zurich-administered fund that is dedicated to exploring new avenues in the relationship between science and society, scientist Robert Hoffmann, has developed the first Wiki where authorship really matters. ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 15, 2007

...he approach could provide a fast, reliable and inexpensive way to track trends in drug use at the local, regional or state levels while preserving the anonymity of individuals, Jennifer Field and colleagues said. Past estimates of illicit drug abuse in a community were based largely on surveys in which ch...

'Dating agency' boosts hunt for disease genes

...t of patients' DNAs that they need." The DNA Network provides web access by registered researchers to detailed summaries of data on patients whose anonymity is assured. The researchers hone their hypotheses in collaboration with the clinicians who are the custodians of the samples provided by patients. The...

UK sperm donor crisis

...ed. This fall could continue due to the removal of anonymity for men recruited since April 2005. He said: "...ly to recruit sperm donors. With the change in the anonymity rules coming we saw a sharp fall in numbers and a ..., after the Department of Health announcement that anonymity would be removed, there was a substantial fall in ...

Anonymity in Biological Technology

iSource Networks Partners with inVentiv Health to Develop New Technology Platform for Reaching Healthcare Consumers

...iSource Networks is intently focused on developing a solution to fulfill the need for truly personalized health information, while still providing the anonymity that consumers crave. We are thrilled to have inVentiv Health as our exclusive partner in this effort because they bring unparalleled experience in co...

Talking Bout My Generation: The Evolution of Online Marketing Research

... three or four weeks might be completed online in as little as 10 days. anonymity Online research that is not distributed via email provides customers with...de off of this advantage is privacy. For some survey participants, lack of anonymity can be a concern. As a result, its not a bad idea for companies to use a t...

NameProtect and MasterCard unite to combat online fraud, phishing

...cript kiddies, spammers-gone-bad and the larger crowd of amateurs that are lured into this kind of crime because of its relative ease of execution and anonymity afforded by the Internet. According to McLane, MasterCards ability to report illegal activities to global authorities addresses perpetrators increa...

'Clickers' let professors quiz big classes instantly

...ntral the 'clickers,' which usually have about a dozen buttons, let them respond instantly to multiple-choice questions posed by their professor. The anonymity is an encouragement to some students who might feel embarrassed to raise their hands and be caught in a wrong answer. The university also uses soft...