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Carlat reviews Dollars for Docs, and the bleak picture it paints
Writing on KevinMD.com, psychiatrist and blogger Daniel Carlat reviews ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs database from the perspective of a medical…
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The health highlights of two years of Guardian data
In two years, the Guardian’s data blog has published more than 600 data sets. I know this because, thanks to…
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International cooperative to share health data
Writing that “the importance of data sharing in advancing health is becoming increasingly widely recognised,” 17 major public health players…
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UK’s Dartmouth-esque atlas yields familiar results
Writing for NPR’s health blog, Christopher Weaver looks at the NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare, which is similar to…
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ProPublica finds academic physicians violating schools’ conflict rules
While journalists have been finding innovative ways to use ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs database, the database’s founders, Tracy Weber and…
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Wash. health data now includes infection rates
Washington state has solidified its position as a leader in health data transparency with the publication this year of hospital…
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New database links journalists, trauma research
There’s a reason the folks from the National Library of Medicine are fixtures at AHCJ events: Medical research is an…
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Dialysis program: Experiment in socialized medicine comes with high costs, risks
ProPublica’s Robin Fields has put together an artful examination of the nation’s Medicare-funded dialysis system. Part history and part investigation,…
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Video, presentations from comparative effectiveness conference available online
Earlier this month, ECRI’s 17th annual conference tackled the thorniest detail of comparative effectiveness research, namely that it’s rarely a…
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NLM workshop in Ohio tests waters for possible chapter
This post was contributed by AHCJ member Eileen Beal. On Oct. 9, health care journalists, a couple of journalism professors,…