Medical Research Fraud And HHS's Office Of Research Integrity: Watching The Watchdog
March 20, 2014 | The Insider: White Collar Defense and Securities Enforcement
Even for those who carefully follow legal developments in the health care fraud arena, the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Research Integrity (“ORI”) is an agency that rarely appears on the radar. According to its website, ORI “oversees and directs Public Health Service (PHS) research integrity activities,” including the integrity of research projects funded by agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ORI’s primary functions include such tasks as “monitoring” investigations that research institutions conduct when there are allegations of data falsification, and proposing administrative actions against medical researchers found to have fabricated the results of their studies. [...]