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national practitioner data bank
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Campaign wants some immunity for docs who apologize
According to my mother, it sometimes isn’t enough to just say you’re sorry. In The Kansas City Star, Alan Bavley…
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HHS responds to questions about enforcement of NPDB restrictions
Journalists who name troubled physicians in their stories after downloading a public version of the National Practitioner Data Bank do…
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Secrecy around data bank protects ‘Practitioner No. 222117’
Alan Bavley of The Kansas City Star provides us with a stark illustration of why new restrictions on the use…
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Agency’s restrictions on data about disciplined doctors continue to get attention
The Kansas City Star and The Sacramento Bee ran editorials over the weekend to denounce the recent decision by the…
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Grassley blasts HRSA over data removal after seeing letter exchange with doc
The action taken by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to remove the public version of the National Practitioner…
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Journalists, researchers renew call for access to data during public call
Officials at the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration held a conference call on Thursday to seek input from the…
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Grassley criticizes federal agency over removal of doctor discipline data
Grassley’s letter to HRSA Administrator Wakefield See an interactive timeline of the National Practitioner Data Bank controversy. Oct. 2: Former…
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Journalists turn to Sebelius for access to National Practitioner Data Bank file
The Association of Health Care Journalists and five other journalism groups appealed to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius…
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Agency declines to restore public data
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration resisted demands by three major journalism organizations for the immediate restoration of a…
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More journalism groups join effort to restore access to National Practitioner Data Bank
For immediate release Sept. 21, 2011 See how reporters have used NPDB’s public use file to expose gaps in oversight…