Category
Uncategorized
-
Changes coming to health care workforce ripe for coverage
Margot Sanger-Katz While employment in many industries tanked and weakly recovered, jobs in the health care sector have grown at…
-
Journalists call on USDA to release food stamp information
The Association of Health Care Journalists, along with six other journalism and open-government groups, has called on the U.S. Department…
-
•
Readmissions, the drug store and a sleep-deprived patient
Eric Whitney Colorado Public Radio’s Eric Whitney recently reported on a new program involving Walgreens pharmacists that is intended to…
-
The Alternative Quality Contract (Andrew Dreyfus presentation)
Andrew Dreyfus, president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, spoke on the panel “Lessons from…
-
AHCJ names Seegert new topic leader on aging issues
Liz Seegert The Association of Health Care Journalists has hired reporting professional Liz Seegert as the new topic champion for…
-
•
Focus on freelancing: Keys to negotiating fair contracts
Irene Wielawski There’s no shortage of war stories among freelancers about the kinds of contracts they’ve been asked to sign.…
-
Covering lifestyle, genetics and policies that lead to healthy aging
Eileen Beal For Dr. John W. Rowe and Robert L. Kahn, authors of “Successful Aging,” the book that got the…
-
Nearly 800 attend AHCJ’s annual conference
A record crowd attending Health Journalism 2013 saw AHCJ unveil its own searchable news application of hospital inspection reports, heard…
-
AHCJ unveils hospitalinspections.org
The Association of Health Care Journalists today launched hospitalinspections.org, a free, searchable news application that compiles thousands of federal inspection…
-
•
When the study’s not the story
Salynn Boyles Writing about medical research can be a pretty straightforward task. But then there are times when a study…