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NPDB
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Journalism organizations ask HRSA to clarify how it will exercise restrictions
The Association of Health Care Journalists and five other journalism organizations asked federal health officials this week to specify how…
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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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Numbers reveal how often, or how rarely, states check doctors’ disciplinary records
How often does your state medical board search doctors in the National Practitioner Data Bank? Surprisingly not often, according to…
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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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Journalism groups protest HRSA restrictions to Sebelius
The Association of Health Care Journalists and six other journalism organizations on Thursday formally protested the Obama administration’s new restrictions…
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Agency re-posts National Practitioner Data Bank file, but restrictions draw fire
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration today republished the public version of the National Practitioner Data Bank, after intense…
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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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‘On The Media’ covers NPDB controversy
This week’s “On The Media” show features AHCJ President Charles Ornstein discussing the public use file of the National Practitioner…
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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…