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NYT reporters tease hip replacement numbers from difficult data
Writing for The New York Times, Barry Meier and Janet Roberts analyzed a particularly tricky batch of federal reports detailing…
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Groups push for transparency in Joint Commission’s hospital accreditation surveys
The Lexington Herald-Leader‘s Jim Warren reports that about 50 advocacy groups, including the Consumers Union and Mothers against Medical Error,…
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Pharma discloses free meals, ProPublica expands database
In his latest report, ProPublica senior reporter and AHCJ board president Charles Ornstein explains exactly how, since its founding last…
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Thieves target pharma cargo, cause shortages
Reporting for WBBH-Fort Myers, Fla., Andy Pierotti reports that highly specialized thieves have made an art form of snatching shipping…
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Find health data at Childstats.gov, a clearinghouse for kid numbers
Time to add another link to your “federal data clearinghouses” folder, if you haven’t already. Childstats.gov, published by the Federal…
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CPI investigation details health information technology sector’s lobbying efforts
Writing for The Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News, Josh Israel reports that, with billions of stimulus dollars still at…
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Reporter finds the story behind food code violations
All the time that The Muskegon Chronicle‘s Brian McVicar has been spending with his county health department’s inspection records has…
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Paper seeks redacted details from Vt. medical board
Burlington Free Press reporter Adam Silverman writes that his newspaper is seeking the release of certain details redacted from a…
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Data, AHCJ article lead reporter to story on possible cuts at local hospital
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Blythe Bernhard followed up on suggestions offered in Charles Ornstein’s recent AHCJ article about updated CMS…
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Data shows disconnect between patient perception, hospital performance
Sifting through Medicare hospital rating data, USA Today reporters Steve Sternberg and Christopher Schnaars found an enlightening disconnect between patients’…