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Government
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Journalism organizations offer data government blocked from public
Another development in the protest by three key journalism groups to the Obama administration’s decision to block public access to…
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AHCJ, other journalism organizations protest removal of data from public website
The Association of Health Care Journalists, joined by the Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors, sent a…
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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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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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Reports detail Dallas hospital on brink of losing federal funds
Late Friday, a damning federal report declaring that patients were at risk at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas was released.…
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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.…