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Public records
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Mass. won’t post hospitals’ death rates
The Boston Globe‘s Liz Kowalczyk reports that, two years after it was first proposed by a consumer group, the Massachusetts…
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AHCJ pushes for access to publicly funded research
The strong public interest in “direct, free and full text access to research articles” prompted the Association of Health Care…
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EPA changes would improve public access to data
A recent OMB Watch story covers the EPA’s latest attempt to leverage the Toxic Substances Control Act to make it…
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Missouri data disclosure details infection fight
Missouri law requires hospitals to disclose infection rates for intensive care and certain surgeries. It doesn’t keep that data around…
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FOI request for H1N1 documents still pending
Eleven months after she filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for…
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Hearing on public access to research will be online
Representatives of a number of medical- and publishing-related organizations will testify today at a hearing on “Public access to federally…
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HIPAA’s role in transplant story, correction
The Village Voice says things are rather tense at the New York Post after it incorrectly reported on Monday that…
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Bill would require public access to research
Federal agencies would be required to develop policies allowing timely, free, online access to government-funded research under a bill, the…
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J-S settles records suit; docs rebel against COI rules
As a result of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s now-settled lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin, John Fauber was able to…
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Agreement lets disciplined nurses work in 24 states
ProPublica’s Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein are back on the disciplined caregivers beat, this time cooperating with USA Today to…