Advocacy
AHCJ advocates for transparency and accuracy in health reporting, ensuring access to credible information and equipping journalists to assess the trustworthiness of health news.
Right to Know
The right to know: It’s a concept that underpins all journalism, and nowhere is it more important than in health care and medicine. Patients have a right to know what will keep them healthy and what will make them sick. The public have a right to know how effectively their government protects and serves those who depend on it. For health care journalists that means heavy responsibilities – and sometimes daunting challenges. Through its advocacy arm, the Right to Know Committee, it works to open doors to health and medical knowledge and serves as a resource for members having difficulty accessing information.
Latest Efforts
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Media groups decry CDC’s silence on W.Va. spill; agency admits communication missteps
The recent chemical spill in West Virginia, which contaminated the drinking water of 300,000 people, became another occasion when federal…
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CMS data should give reporters a plethora of new stories to cover
As Charles Ornstein pointed out, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that it will release payment information for individual physicians…
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Fight for access to Medicare payments to physicians nearly over
(Editor’s note: This is a revision of the original post, which is available on Ornstein’s Tumblr site.) The Centers for Medicare…
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Idaho publishers seek access to health care price information in antitrust case
News publishers in Idaho have asked the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to unseal pricing information…
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