»Are you ready for a Tahrir moment?« – Graffiti und feministischer Aktivismus in der ägyptischen Revolution

Are you ready for SM358?

Read through these notes and work through all the questions in Sections 3 and 4. This is a useful exercise for all prospective students of the module, even those who have studied other Open University science and mathematics modules and who have followed the recommended prior study routes for SM358 (see Section 2 below). Working through these notes and questions will serve as a reminder of some...

Are You Ready for a HIPAA Audit?

Title XIII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) includes the subsection known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. In addition to its incentives for health care organizations to adopt electronic health records (EHRs), HITECH extended the scope of the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the Security Rule, increased penalties for failing t...

Are you ready for Joint Commission?

Are you ready for the next step?

Are you ready for "collaborative health"?

“A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.” So said the Victorian essayist Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Patient centred care began as a correction of abuses, says our essayist Michael Millenson (doi:10.1136/bmj.j3048), a response to patients being treated like “imbeciles and inventory.” It is now a mix of partnership and paternalism, he says, and the real transfer of pow...