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Health data
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Institute launches global health data clearinghouse
Last month, the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (about) launched the Global Health Data Exchange (or…
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Survey: Only half of federal agencies have better FOI procedures
A report from the Knight Open Government Survey found that, despite some progress, federal agencies are only halfway there when…
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Senators join fight to open Medicare claims data
Two senators have joined the effort to open up the Medicare claims database that reveals what payments doctors get through…
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Hospital association official confuses news reporting with lobbying
Blythe Bernhard and Jeremy Kohler have been writing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about Missouri hospitals’ unwillingness to publicly disclose…
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Alarm fatigue hurts patient care, overwhelms nurses
In the wake of several high-profile incidents, The Boston Globe‘s Liz Kowalczyk has assembled a thorough investigation of alarm fatigue…
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CBC analysis finds resistant bacteria in raw chicken
Reporters from the CBC’s “Marketplace” program visited supermarkets in Canada’s three largest cities, bought 100 samples of chicken, and sent…
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Faltering Wis. transparency law has national lessons
Journal Sentinel reporter Guy Boulton’s investigation of Wisconsin’s ongoing failure to properly implement a statewide health care transparency law that…
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NYT’s Heffernan contrasts WebMD, MayoClinic.com
New York Times Magazine columnist Virginia Heffernan has posted a take on the quality of online health information, framed as…
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Carlat reviews Dollars for Docs, and the bleak picture it paints
Writing on KevinMD.com, psychiatrist and blogger Daniel Carlat reviews ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs database from the perspective of a medical…
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The health highlights of two years of Guardian data
In two years, the Guardian’s data blog has published more than 600 data sets. I know this because, thanks to…