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Health policy
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Audit: UK’s health IT program falls short of expectations
After a damning report from the U.K.’s national audit office indicating that the National Health Service’s massive health IT program…
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CBC, grad students cover palliative care and death in Canada
The CBC’s new series on dying has a unique provenance: The stories are the work of 16 graduate students at…
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Hoban compares N.C. mental health system to other states
WUNC’s Rose Hoban took advantage of an AHCJ fellowship to create far-reaching series on what state and local governments are…
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Nun talks about practicing medicine in rural Miss.
In today’s episode of The Story, from American Public Media, listeners hear from Sister Anne Brooks, a physician who has…
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Berwick debuts website featuring health data
By Susan Jaffe, Independent Journalist From Health Journalism 2011 Journalists have a key role to play making health care safer…
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Program taps public lands to improve public health
This week, National Park Service brass took to California to push its new Healthy Parks, Healthy People initiative. Visitors walk…
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AHCJ joins objections to proposed cuts to federal transparency websites
All eyes are on the federal budget negotiations today, with most attention focused on whether or not an impasse will…
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Spotlight on health care quality, measures
The April issue of Health Affairs focuses on the quality of health care in the United States. Some highlights of…
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Meeting the challenges of explaining Health Policy
Editor’s note: Today we introduce Joanne Kenen as AHCJ’s Health Policy topic leader. She will be writing blog posts, tip…
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Uninsured overwhelm ERs, clinics in Calif. county
Uninsured out-of-work professionals and laid-off blue-collar workers are stressing the health system in Stanislaus County, Calif., as reported by Jocelyn…