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data
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Reporting team tackles lead scourge in Philly
Reading through a recent story in the Philadelphia Daily News on lead plaguing the city’s houses, I realized the story…
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Will the hope and hype of predictive analytics pan out?
Predictive analytics is an area of data science that is getting a lot of attention in health care. Predictive analytics…
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Health data bazaar: Covering the legal trade in patient data
There’s a big focus these days on cybersecurity in health care, and rightly so, with the frequency and cost of…
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Writing about abortion? AHCJ has the data you need
Issues surrounding abortion never really leave the news. A reporter could build an entire beat around covering abortion issues and…
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Citing WHO data, writer gives thanks for health gains
This holiday season, Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post turned away from politics to acknowledge some important recent health gains.…
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The 21st Century Cures Act, health IT and data
The 21st Century Cures Act – passed overwhelmingly by Congress in recent days – will have broad implications on health IT…
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Flesh out your coverage of infectious diseases with historical data
Any time there is an outbreak of an infectious disease, the public wants to know how common it is and…
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Incremental progress seen in price transparency, but report may rate A+ among journalists
Progress toward widespread price transparency comes slowly, according to the latest annual report from the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute…
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Firearm data resources for reporting on the Orlando mass shooting
In light of the mass shooting in Orlando, many journalists covering the event will need access to statistics on firearms,…
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Review of EPA data leads USA Today to towns with contaminated water
Yes, database websites can seem clunky, and government data can seem hopelessly riddled with errors. But searching, downloading and analyzing…