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Hospitals
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Join today’s webinar on newly released hospital cost data
The federal government released data today showing what hospitals across the country charge Medicare for the same treatment or procedure.…
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How one reporter asks for — and often gets — meaningful medical pricing information
As a writer covering health for Angie’s List Magazine, a consumer publication that goes to more than 1 million members around…
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#ahcj13 speakers featured in news about Boston Marathon bombings
If you attended Health Journalism 2013, you heard from plenty of Boston-based medical professionals, some of whom are in the…
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Hospital inspection reports one key to writing about quality of care #ahcj13
By Kelsey Ryan For journalists wanting to learn more about how to track hospital quality through inspection reports, Charles Ornstein, a…
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Interactive tools, new apps being used to improve health care #ahcj13
Using technology in health care to interact with people certainly opens up new avenues of communication and yields more data…
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Journalists share tips for weighing hospital rankings #ahcj13
Can every hospital really be better than every other hospital at everything? Hospital public relations folks and the people who…
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Experts push for improvement in avoiding medical errors #ahcj13
Lisa Kenney knows all too well the grave danger posed by medical errors. While undergoing surgery in 1999, a medical…
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Consolidation, collections and coding: Covering the business side of hospitals #ahcj13
The “Rich Hospital, Poor Hospital” panel at Health Journalism 2013 broke down the hospital industry into a discussion about the…
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Hospitals struggle to find ways to reduce avoidable readmissions #ahcj13
About one in five Medicare patients hospitalized for heart attacks, heart failure or pneumonia will be back in the hospital…
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Online hospital inspection reports open door to power reporting #ahcj13
Any reporter who has sought public records from the feds knows the practical nightmare that is the Freedom of Information…