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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Forum on Medicaid expansion, previously closed to press, now open
For the past few days, AHCJ has been working with the Obama administration to resolve questions about whether reporters can…
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Reporters can use hospital readmission data to explore key issues
Jordan Rau The Affordable Care Act honed in on hospital readmissions because many health policy experts believe they’re symptomatic of…
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AHCJ protests FDA surveillance of communication between reporters, scientists
Following a New York Times report over the weekend that revealed the federal government secretly tracked communication sent by FDA…
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HHS responds to questions about enforcement of NPDB restrictions
Journalists who name troubled physicians in their stories after downloading a public version of the National Practitioner Data Bank do…
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