What is HIPAA?
Losing your job is hard enough. But what if you lost your healthcare insurance along with it? And there were no standardized ways to keep or transfer your health information? Continue Reading →
Category: Education
Educational topics related to industry contracting, intellectual property and technology transfer.
Antibodies as Biomarkers in the Detection of Cancer
The early detection of cancer is vital for successful treatment as well as increasing survival rates, and the ability to come up with a reliable way to determine cancer phenotypes Continue Reading →
The Promise of Biomarkers and Antibodies
Biomarkers, an abbreviation of “biological markers,” serve as medical indicators for the disease state observed from outside the patient. This measure is both precise and replicable, and accounts for a Continue Reading →
The Benefit of Master Agreements
Master agreements help set standard terms between two parties of a contractual, reciprocal agreement. The process of two parties having to repeatedly enter into a separate agreement of the same Continue Reading →
What are Orphan and Rare Diseases?
Rare diseases affect very small populations of individuals. According to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), orphan diseases are those that specifically affect less than 200,000 people within Continue Reading →
Orphan Drugs & Priority Review Vouchers
Rare illnesses and medical problems are often neglected in the pharmaceutical industry. This is because drug developers opt to focus on illnesses that are prevalent and their treatments more lucrative. Continue Reading →
The Ins and Outs of Creative Commons Manuscript Submissions
It’s fairly easy to prove ownership of a newly-purchased jacket: simply pull out your receipt. But what about a story you wrote, or an invention you designed? What if someone Continue Reading →
The Bayh-Dole Act: Giving the Power of Innovation Back to Universities and Small Businesses
Universities, hospitals, small businesses, and research centers have long been hotbeds of scientific innovation and discovery. However, in the past many of the scientific advances being made at these institutions Continue Reading →
What is eCTS? And Why Is It Taking So Long Anyway?
Emory’s Electronic Contract Tracking System (eCTS) is the online portal for all research contracts/agreements and general information related to the contract negotiation and award set-up of specific studies and clinical Continue Reading →
An Introduction to Medical Care Coding
Richard Duszak, Jr., MD is nationally recognized for his work in imaging health policy, Duszak came to Emory after serving as founding CEO of the Neiman Health Policy Institute and Continue Reading →