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Health data
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Military’s spotty recordkeeping hurts veterans
At the Center for Investigative Reporting, Aaron Glantz dug deep into the widespread recordkeeping errors and lapses that are bedeviling…
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Hospital Compare helps reporter fact check claims
After the local county commission voted to close Birmingham’s Cooper Green Mercy Hospital and replace it with a hub-and-spoke system…
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Investigation: Medtronic paid millions to surgeons; ghostwrote papers
Over at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today, John Fauber updates Side Effects, his long-running investigation into conflicts of…
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More data on effect of state insurance rate reviews available
A few weeks ago we gave you an overview of insurance rate review under Health Policy. Some states have the…
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Member uses data to track doctors’ referrals; AHCJ members get a first look
AHCJ member Fred Trotter publicly unveiled a major data set last week that could reshape how journalists report on medical…
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Fla. database intended to stop prescription drug abuse is largely unused
After years of increasing scrutiny as it sat at what appeared to the epicenter of the national prescription painkiller abuse…
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Reporter looks at Spokane’s efforts to address disparities
Reporting for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., Shawn Vestal started by observing massive life-span disparities in the city and surrounding…
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N.C. series explains high cost of cancer drugs
As part of an ongoing series on the cost of health care in The Charlotte Observer and The News &…
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Rau explains using data to write about hospital readmissions
Many health policy experts believe that hospital readmissions are symptomatic of the broad dysfunction of the health care system in…
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Financial documents help explain independent, not-for-profit hospital’s challenges
In the Tampa Bay Times, Letitia Stein writes about a local independent not-for-profit hospital that’s struggling financially and may be…