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Health information technology
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Three tips on making health IT a human story
Health IT in the media is often covered as an arcane business or gadget story. Or it’s covered in the…
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Direct-to-consumer teleheath: The sector gets a new diagnosis
They say health care is local. But the convergence of the smartphone and telehealth is making health care ubiquitous. Virtual…
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Vesely to lead newest AHCJ core topic effort: health information technology
Rebecca Vesely, an independent journalist based in San Francisco, will lead AHCJ’s newest core topic on health information technology. She…
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation supports health IT training for journalists
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a three-year $230,000 grant to the Center for Excellence in Health Care…
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Despite $30 billion spent to improve it, health information technology rated a top patient safety issue
Just seven years after the federal government announced plans to invest in health information technology (HIT) for physicians and hospitals,…
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Telemedicine: New ways to deliver care and how to report on it #AHCJ16
At Health Journalism 2016 on Friday, David Pittman, an ehealth reporter for Politico, had some good advice for reporters covering telemedicine:…
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Research using new private insurer data sheds light on how system is and isn’t working in six areas
Six research reports released today by the Health Care Cost Institute show how the health insurance system is working and failing…
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Panelists discuss health potential of wearables at #ahcj15
We have a lot of cool gadgets, but how can they really improve our health? And can they change health…
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Health journalists gathered for training, networking in Silicon Valley #ahcj15
Nearly 700 people attended Health Journalism 2015, the annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists. The gathering, in…
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E-cigarette panel lit up a debate at #AHCJ15
The Health Journalism 2015 panel on e-cigarette use, or vaping, was anything but dull. Des Moines Register health reporter Tony…
