Provide names of other journalists involved.
Suzanna Hoppszallern
List date(s) this work was published or aired.
Jul-12
Provide a brief synopsis of the story or stories, including any significant findings.
As health care becomes increasingly digitized, hospitals and health systems are under pressure to adopt robust information technology systems. Large amounts of dollars are being spent to install these systems all in the hopes of improving patient care. H&HN’s Most Wired story looks at how hospitals are implementing IT systems, the challenges they face in doing so, and the results they are seeing.
Explain types of documents, data or Internet resources used. Were FOI or public records act requests required? How did this affect the work?
The article relies extensively on data collected from H&HN’s 14th Annual Most Wired survey. Twenty-seven percent of U.S. hospitals are represented in the survey.
Explain types of human sources used.
We interviewed health system executives who are at the forefront of implementing health IT systems.
Results:
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Follow-up (if any). Have you run a correction or clarification on the report or has anyone come forward to challenge its accuracy? If so, please explain.
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Advice to other journalists planning a similar story or project.
Since this is, to a degree, a survey story, it is important to look at what’s behind the numbers. There are stories behind the data, we tried to find those in the profiles.