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Health data
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Taking a different look at readmission metrics, penalties
One of the high-profile programs within the Affordable Care Act is the drive to reduce preventable hospital readmissions among the…
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Lindberg, NLM’s health informatics pioneer, to retire
Don Lindberg, M.D., who has served as director of the National Library of Medicine for more than 30 years, will…
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Latest Leapfrog scores show hospitals need to improve patient safety
A new report from the Leapfrog Group couldn’t be more timely given the attention hospitals have received recently on the…
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Use caution with new data on doctor payments from drug, device companies
This article originally appeared on ProPublica’s website. The government’s new website on drug and device company ties to doctors will be…
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How a secretive panel uses data that distorts doctors’ pay
One factor that makes health care costs difficult to manage is the system the federal government and health insurers use…
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AHCJ disappointed with ACGME’s response on transparency
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has rejected a request from AHCJ to publicly release additional information about the…
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AHCJ data include 16,806 nursing home deficiencies
AHCJ’s latest update to nursing home inspection data gives members three years of the most severe deficiencies found during inspections…
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Searchable hospital data now includes June inspections
AHCJ just added 3,522 detailed records of hospital deficiencies on its HospitalInspections.org website. The latest addition includes inspections into June.…
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Exploring the geography of violent death
Measured by rates of violent death, the most dangerous counties in the United States have rates that are more than…
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Hospital survey data updated, with changes
AHCJ has just updated its easy-to-use Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey data to include the…