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AHCJ update: Three years of Medicare provider payment data for your state
In 2014, Medicare paid more than $78 billion to surgeons, ambulance services, podiatrists, hospice services, eye doctors, family physicians, speech,…
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New AHCJ benefit offers wealth of health care data
AHCJ members will now get special access to data tools, thanks to an agreement the organization has made with Carevoyance,…
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Using editorials, letters to help make sense of contradictory data
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a bombshell alcohol recommendation to women on Feb. 2 that led to…
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Initiative aims to use browsing histories to improve Wikipedia health content
It’s well known that Google, Facebook and dozens of other companies mine the browsing histories of their users and use…
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Stat details failure of research institutions to submit required study reports
A Stat investigation has found that “prestigious medical research institutions have flagrantly violated a federal law requiring public reporting of study results, depriving…
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Supreme Court case could affect states’ efforts to develop big-claims databases
Here’s a story that’s easy to overlook but could affect the future of health care cost and quality management. On…
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Webcast: Using NARMS Now, a CDC data tool on antibiotic resistance
This year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS Now), a database…
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Reporter finds mental health evaluations missed in ER that released murder suspect
Reporter Amy Neff Roth (@OD_Roth), of the Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch found an interesting story with the help of hospitalinspections.org. Roth,…
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Webcast to explore how consumers, payers and provider groups can evaluate physician quality
Next month, the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) will publish methodology that will allow consumers, health plans, provider organizations…
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ProPublica offers rebuttal to Rand critique of Surgeon Scorecard
Not unexpectedly, ProPublica has published a response to the Rand Corporation’s recent 20-page critique of the journalism organization’s Surgeon Scorecard, a searchable database of…