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Hospitals
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Hospital says it gives content to short-staffed media
Lindsey Miller of Ragan Communications Inc., a publisher of corporate communications, writes that Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has…
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Slip of the needle brings fallout, tough decisions
Writing for The New York Times, AHCJ member Sibyl Shalo Wilmont shares the chain of events that followed when she…
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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…
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Parikh: Malpractice reform’s no cost-cutter
Rahul Parikh, M.D., writing on Salon.com, talks about his own tendencies toward defensive medicine and debunks the idea that malpractice…
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Is community research oversight flawed?
America’s 400-plus designated Community Research Sites receive much less attention than the massive academic research hospitals, but conduct the bulk…
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Scans at LA hospital spewed 8x normal radiation
On Oct. 8, the FDA issued an alert recommending hospitals review CT scan radiation levels after dangerous doses were detected…
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Bundled payments may improve care, lower costs
Kaiser Health News’ Phil Galewitz looks at bundling hospital payments, a possible solution to the confusion and cost of separate…
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AHRQ interviews Ornstein, talks medical errors
Robert Wachter, M.D., (bio), editor of AHRQ WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality), interviewed AHCJ President Charles Ornstein, of ProPublica, for a…
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Feds take Columbia to task over decade-old study
The run of intriguing health journalism from the Huffington Post Investigative Fund continues this week, as Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon…
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Doctor’s path shows licensing’s weaknesses
The Associated Press’ Jay Reeves exposes systemic flaws in state medical licensing through the story of a physician who was…