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Hospitals
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CMS unveils dataset on top hospital discharge payments
The public can now compare hospital-specific charges for the top 100 most frequently billed discharges at the 3000+ hospitals across…
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Join today’s webinar on newly released hospital cost data
The federal government released data today showing what hospitals across the country charge Medicare for the same treatment or procedure.…
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Hospital inspection reports one key to writing about quality of care #ahcj13
By Kelsey Ryan For journalists wanting to learn more about how to track hospital quality through inspection reports, Charles Ornstein, a…
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Interactive tools, new apps being used to improve health care #ahcj13
Using technology in health care to interact with people certainly opens up new avenues of communication and yields more data…
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Journalists share tips for weighing hospital rankings #ahcj13
Can every hospital really be better than every other hospital at everything? Hospital public relations folks and the people who…
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Consolidation, collections and coding: Covering the business side of hospitals #ahcj13
The “Rich Hospital, Poor Hospital” panel at Health Journalism 2013 broke down the hospital industry into a discussion about the…
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Snapshots from #ahcj13 | Constance Alexander
Constance Alexander, independent journalist, Murray, Kentucky: What do you do? I teach humanities at Murray State University and work in…
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AHCJ unveils searchable database of hospital inspections
The Association of Health Care Journalists today launched hospitalinspections.org, a free, searchable news application that compiles thousands of federal inspection…
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Impressions from around the conference #ahcj13
After learning about the flaws in hospital ratings in one of Thursday’s sessions, I feel confident presenting my equally unscientific…
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Panel will discuss newly released 990 data on hospitals #ahcj13
AHCJ has just released a new trove of information from GuideStar on the finances of nonprofit U.S. hospitals. This information –…