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Tips for covering cyberattacks on health care organizations
The cyberattack that hit British hospitals and hundreds of other organizations in more than 100 countries last week continues to…
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Telehealth gaining wider acceptance but hurdles remain, say #AHCJ17 panelists
Telehealth is a field that is moving towards widespread acceptance, so agreed a panel at Health Journalism 2017 in Orlando.…
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#AHCJ17 panel explores ongoing quest for reliable measures of hospital quality
Health reporters should be asking the hospitals they cover plenty of in-depth questions about their star ratings and other collected…
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#AHCJ17 panel explored humanizing medicine in a high-tech world
The demands that technology places on care providers often are at odds with the human connection necessary for them to…
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Panel to examine MACRA, the physician payment overhaul law
Given the ACA’s uncertain future, some experts have said that another law, MACRA, could lead the way on provider payment…
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Preparing for the VA’s electronic health record system overhaul
Care delivery at the Department of Veterans Affairs, which serves 9 million veterans, will be fascinating to cover in the…
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Veteran health IT reporter shows how to sift through the whiz-bang at industry conferences
So your editor wants you to cover health information technology at a conference. Whether it’s a product launch, upgrade or…
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What we know about the nation’s newest health IT czar
On Friday, Politico broke the story that Donald W. Rucker, M.D., has been named the new national coordinator for health…
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Congress’ internet privacy pullback has implications for health journalists, consumers
The U.S. House of Representatives on March 28 voted 215-205 to eliminate Obama-era consumer protections that bar internet service providers…
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What Trump’s budget proposal may mean for health research agency
President Donald Trump’s budget proposal includes rolling a relatively obscure agency that conducts health care research into the National Institutes…