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Health data
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Hospital’s struggle illustrates health IT woes
The University of California San Francisco Medical Center has written off more than a third of the $50 million it…
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HHS blog intended as forum about health IT
The first post on the new Health IT Buzz blog has generated more than 50 comments since it was posted…
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Archive offers drug industry documents online
In correspondence earlier this month, Kim Klausner, of the University of California, San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management,…
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ECRI reviews prostate cancer research
The ECRI Institute’s new review of recent research on the utility of off-label prescription of Finasteride in the prevention of…
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Tulsa World reports on disciplining doctors
More than 300 Oklahoma doctors have been disciplined by the Oklahoma Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision, according to an…
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Survey reveals how much patient privacy is at risk
Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund report on a survey in which 75 percent of…
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Med school prof: Dartmouth Atlas is ‘malarkey’
In a story done in collaboration with The Philadelphia Inquirer, Kaiser Health News’ Jordan Rau’s report on a leading physician’s…
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NYT Mag takes deep look at data-driven medicine
David Leonhardt, writing for New York Times Magazine, profiles Brent James and Intermountain Healthcare, the hospital network he helps oversee.…
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Tracking H1N1 shots, in Texas and beyond
Jeffrey Weiss of The Dallas Morning News reports that he was able, via an open records request, to get a…
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Case studies show how health IT fits in today
Writing for content, document and knowledge management publication KMWorld, David Raths evaluates applications of health information technology, or HIT, in…