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Today the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid announced a “Scorecard” intended to increase public transparency about the performance of the…
We are well into the age of Big Data, in which researchers may use databases or another dataset with data…
Looking for p-hacking or other statistical red flags is challenging, particularly for journalists who don’t have training in statistics or…
We’ve covered in another blog post what to be cautious about in scrutinizing an observational study that uses data from…
More than 15 percent of the U.S. population – one in every seven people – is now age 65 or…
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The Association of Health Care Journalists today unveiled hospitalfinances.org, a website that offers free, searchable financial information on nonprofit hospitals…
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Hospital inspection records from this year have been added to the searchable HospitalInspections.org website. The site, created and run by…
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Health care data are increasingly being collected by nonprofits and private companies as part of their work and business –…
More than 700 people attended Health Journalism 2018, the 20th anniversary celebration of the Association of Health Care Journalists. Reporters, editors, producers,…
Donald Warne, M.D., M.P.H., comes from generations of traditional healers on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He became…