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Health Policy
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Boomers line up for Medicare Part D plans
In a Morning Edition piece, NPR’s Kelley Weiss manages to hit all the highlights of this year’s Medicare Part D…
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New EHR error-reporting system to keep data confidential
EHRevent.org, a service that will allow health workers to report and track errors associated with electronic health records, has launched…
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St. Louis reporters find felons practicing medicine
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch‘s Blythe Bernhard and Jeremy Kohler tell the story of an ophthalmologist to show how a convicted…
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Dialysis program: Experiment in socialized medicine comes with high costs, risks
ProPublica’s Robin Fields has put together an artful examination of the nation’s Medicare-funded dialysis system. Part history and part investigation,…
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Lieberman: Election is evidence media got reform coverage wrong
In her column on CJRorg, AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman writes that this week’s elections showed just how thoroughly…
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Video, presentations from comparative effectiveness conference available online
Earlier this month, ECRI’s 17th annual conference tackled the thorniest detail of comparative effectiveness research, namely that it’s rarely a…
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Days numbered for UK’s arbiter of comparative effectiveness
While comparative effectiveness research in the United States is booming thanks to the stimulus, a United Kingdom bastion of the…
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ProPublica investigates pharma payments to doctors
ProPublica’s massive investigation into the hefty fees pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors with dubious track records stamps an exclamation point…
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Understanding the administrative side of implementation
Coverage of health care reform implementation has generally focused on the issues and effects of the roll-out, rather than the…
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Trade group says conflicts negate GPOs’ leverage
A recent GAO report looked at group purchasing organizations and established that they were pervasive, and that they’d adopted some…