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Health Policy
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Health Policy comes with new rules for nonprofit hospitals
When I first started covering health care, I thought that a nonprofit hospital was one that didn’t make any money.…
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How does the budget deal affect the Affordable Care Act?
So how does this mammoth budget-cutting deal, with its congressional “supercommittee” affect Health Policy? Good question, because lots of people…
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Fla. hospitals make little progress on error reduction
South Florida Sun Sentinel reporters Sally Kestin and Bob LaMendola report that, despite the myriad initiatives and protocols launched in…
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Reporters can explore states’ options for creating exchanges
Give me an f… … for Flexibility, that is. Flexibility is the buzzword these days, as federal health officials coax…
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Report explains doctors’ reluctance to adopt EMRs
Writing for the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News, Susan Jaffe spent time in the trenches to better understand how…
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Follow up on $95 million just awarded to school-based clinics
Periodically, I get an email or press release from a well-intentioned organization telling me why I should be writing about…
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Shifts in health care delivery raise questions
Christopher Weaver at Kaiser Health News has done two stories recently on new care models driven by insurers eager to…
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Baby’s death illustrates how health IT can introduce complexity, error to system
Chicago Tribune reporters Judith Graham and Cynthia Dizikes explore the pitfalls of health information technology through the story of an…
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Two new resources for covering Health Policy
There are two more resources to share with you from two of health journalisms’ ever-helpful friends, the Kaiser Family Foundation…
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Potential changes in regulation of medical devices would likely impact health care costs
As the medical device industry ramps up its campaign against further government regulation, Merrill Goozner takes stock of the regulatory…