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Health data
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Site allows analysis, sharing of health data
During a chat at the Health Journalism 2010 registration desk on Wednesday night, AHCJ special projects director Jeff Porter learned…
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Schulte, Schwartz look for help investigating HIT
Regular readers know that we always keep an eye out for updates from Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz, the duo…
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Calif. nursing homes cut staff despite public money
CaliforniaWatch’s Christina Jewett and Agustin Armendariz put some serious time into an investigation of the results of a 2004 law…
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Little recent progress on foodborne illnesses
The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report contains some early numbers on foodborne illness rates in 2009. The data, NPR…
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Report: Health care disparities aren’t getting better
In their coverage of AHRQ’s latest annual quality and disparities reports (Quality PDF | Disparities PDF), most outlets focused on…
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Looking up campaign contributions gets easier
The Sunlight Foundation has launched TransparencyData.com, a tool that allows users to filter and download state and federal campaign finance…
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In 2008, fewer preterm babies, more cesareans
Births in the United States went down nearly 2 percent in 2008, according to new figures [PDF] from the CDC’s…
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Officials struggle with timing of outbreak alerts
The Redding (Calif.) Record Searchlight‘s Ryan Sabalow put together a local take on ongoing inconsistencies in how local health departments…
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Journal Sentinel creates overdose database
Tom Kertscher of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analyzed 1,200 fatal overdoses that occurred in the greater Milwaukee area over the…
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Data Mine reports on access to practitioner data
The Center for Public Integrity’s Data Mine focuses on the National Practitioner Databank and the lack of public access to…