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Health data
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Caution in order when tackling newly released Medicare data
AHCJ hosted a webcast about the CMS data, featuring several CMS officials and Charles Ornstein, a senior reporter at ProPublica and…
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Prescribing data and the side effects of assumptions #ahcj14
Reporters curious about the financial relationship between physicians and pharmaceutical companies can use publicly available data as a starting point…
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As new year begins, consumers lack data to make informed health care decisions
One of the biggest health care news stories of 2013 was the lack of price transparency. But consumers need much…
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Updated hospital inspection data includes psychiatric facilities
AHCJ has updated its HospitalInspections.org website and the downloadable version of the data to include reports from most of 2013.…
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Cost reports show financial health of hospitals, amount of charity care they provide
Oklahoma Watch, a nonprofit investigative journalism team, recently published a two-part series on hospitals based on financial data obtained for every…
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Online tool uses state, federal data to track marketplace enrollments
The federal government plans to release exchange enrollment figures once a month (here’s the first report), and they’re expected to…
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Should journalists cover hospital ratings?
(Editor’s note: This was originally published on Ornstein’s Tumblr site and re-published here with his permission.) Few things in health…
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AHCJ seeks release of health insurance exchange data
AHCJ has called on the federal government to release data about enrollment in the federal health insurance exchange as soon…
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Anaheim advice for those attending health data workshop
AHCJ’s Health Data Journalism Workshop is right around the corner. We’re thrilled if you’ve chosen to join us this Thursday…
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Shared wisdom: Giving depth to an anecdotal story
It pays to read your email, according to AHCJ member Lisa Chedekel, co-founder of the Connecticut Health I-Team (C-Hit), a…
