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Health data
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Secrecy around data bank protects ‘Practitioner No. 222117’
Alan Bavley of The Kansas City Star provides us with a stark illustration of why new restrictions on the use…
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DoD spent nearly $363 million on weight-loss surgeries in past decade
Reporting for KIRO-Seattle, Chris Halsne used FOIA requests to find out how much the military’s TriCare plan is paying for…
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Medicaid programs slow to act against system exploiters
At ProPublica, senior reporters Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber have published the latest turn in their ongoing analysis of conflicts…
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Numbers reveal how often, or how rarely, states check doctors’ disciplinary records
How often does your state medical board search doctors in the National Practitioner Data Bank? Surprisingly not often, according to…
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Feds indict doc whose abuses were detailed in 2010 WSJ series
In The Wall Street Journal, John Carreyrou reports that a physician the paper spotlighted in a data-driven series on Medicare…
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Agency’s restrictions on data about disciplined doctors continue to get attention
The Kansas City Star and The Sacramento Bee ran editorials over the weekend to denounce the recent decision by the…
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Journalism groups protest HRSA restrictions to Sebelius
The Association of Health Care Journalists and six other journalism organizations on Thursday formally protested the Obama administration’s new restrictions…
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Agency re-posts National Practitioner Data Bank file, but restrictions draw fire
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration today republished the public version of the National Practitioner Data Bank, after intense…
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Grassley blasts HRSA over data removal after seeing letter exchange with doc
The action taken by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to remove the public version of the National Practitioner…
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Ghost authorship waning in top journals
On the academic publishing blog The Scholarly Kitchen, Phil Davis writes about the recent BMJ study indicating that ghost authorship…