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Health data
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Shifts in aging populations affect communities; check data for your state
Which region of the country is aging most rapidly? It’s New England, where all six states appear on the list…
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Hospitals learning not to fear public data
In HealthLeaders magazine, a publication that targets “healthcare executives and senior decision-makers,” Cheryl Clark writes that the recent explosion of…
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New tool allows searches of nursing home inspection reports
For the first time, reporters anywhere in the country can search nursing home inspection reports online and see how often…
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Quick links to cover Ryan’s view of health care spending
Judith Graham, AHCJ’s topic leader on aging, wrote a good post about Paul Ryan’s health policies’ impact on the elderly…
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Electronic records raise privacy concerns
On Bloomberg’s Tech Blog, Jordan Peterson has been regularly hammering away and exposing, piece by piece, the privacy concerns that…
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Reporter tracks top prescribers’ ties to drugs they prescribe
A while back, Sen. Charles Grassley wrote to state health officials, asking for lists of top Medicaid prescribers of certain…
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OIG: While adverse events are common, records of them aren’t
To draw attention to its ongoing monitoring of the incidence of adverse events in US hospitals and the accurate reporting…
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‘Top Doctors’ rankings lack standards, oversight
It’s going to surprise exactly nobody that the organizations that help sell plaques to physicians might just be in it…
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Health standouts in your neighborhood
Every year, the National Association of County and City Health Officials honors local health departments for what they call “Exemplary…
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Community relies on foreign-educated doctors
Armed with reams of data, The Bakersfield Californian‘s Kellie Schmitt charged headlong into the potential minefield of issues surrounding foreign…