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How I did itLearn from these journalists how they have covered various aspects of health information technology. They provide valuable tips and sources and explain how they got past the challenges to explain the complex world of HIT to their audiences. How journalists found that some telehealth startups share patient information with social media trackers
April 2023 Following up on a story that found many hospitals were sharing patients' medical informaiton with Facebook, an investigative team of journalists from The Markup and STAT revealed websites run by dozens of telehealth startup companies also contained tracking tools that shared users’ potentially sensitive health information with big tech organizations. How a news investigation shed light on potential patient privacy violations
September 2022 There were continuing repercussions from an investigative story published in June 2022 by nonprofit news organization The Markup, in partnership with STAT, describing how Facebook receives sensitive medical information from hospital websites. In this “How I Did It,” Simon Fondrie-Teitler and Todd Feathers, two of the team members that worked on the investigation, spoke with AHCJ about how the story came about and what journalists can learn from the process. How Boston Public Radio reporters tackled artificial intelligence in health care
August 2022 WBUR radio host Meghna Chakrabarti was visiting her brother on the West Coast in summer 2021, enjoying a glass of wine when he said he thought artificial intelligence was going to change civilization. While the two went on to discuss other topics, the idea stuck in Chakrabarti’s mind, and she and senior editor and colleague Dorey Scheimer started researching the topic. Their original four-part series, “Smarter health: Artificial intelligence and the future of American health care,” aired in May and June 2022 on the Boston-based program “On Point.” It’s well worth a listen (or a read, the transcripts are posted online, too). How an investigation gave voice to people whose bionic eye implants went obsolete
June 2022 What happens to users of cutting-edge implants when the only company that makes the technology runs out of money? That’s the question journalists Eliza Strickland and Mark Harris set out to answer during a year-long investigation of the Argus II retinal implant, manufactured by a California company called Second Sight Medical Products. The investigation was published by IEEE Spectrum in February 2022 and covered in a Science Friday broadcast. How to report on emergency medics being locked out of electronic health records
March 2022 Emergency medics are regularly the first people to provide care to someone on the worst day of their life. But all too often, they are barred from accessing the electronic records of the health care systems where they drop their patients off, as journalist Marion Renault wrote for STAT in a story published in January: “A ‘black box’: Emergency medics remain locked out of electronic health records.”
Journalist explores health inequities in medical photography
February 2022 Shayla Love, a senior staff writer at Motherboard (the tech arm of Vice.com), has written several articles about psychedelic drugs used as mental health therapy. One story, "Psychedelic Telemedicine Has Arrived. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" took a public health turn. In this investigative story, Love explored problems arising from a company offering ketamine — an anesthetic drug that produces hallucinogenic effects — as a teletherapy, sending the medications to people’s homes and offering some guided therapy online.
Journalist explores health inequities in medical photography
January 2022 Medical photographs are crucial to documenting disease in textbooks, journals and training medical students. But if inaccurate, physicians won’t get a clear enough picture of what disease looks like in people with different skin tones, which could impact health outcomes, wrote Georgina Gonzalez in an article published in The Verge.
Apps for substance use disorders, other conditions, may not be as private as we think
September 2021 In an article for Vox’s Recode, tech reporter Sara Morrison took a deep dive into data privacy — or a potential lack thereof — among mobile apps for substance use disorders, with implications for all health apps. She also covered the outdated laws that allow developers to share users’ information, often without full disclosure.
STAT health tech reporter says speed in the sector is a double-edged sword
July 2021 Writing about wearable technology turns out to be a winning experience
June 2021 I jumped at the chance. The story was due in November to run in January. On AHCJ fellowship to Denmark, a Politico reporter finds parallels to U.S. implementation of EHRs
September 2019 Allen's first article to come out of the fellowship is “Lost in Translation: Epic goes to Denmark." The story is a comprehensive and often critical look at what happened when some Danish hospitals adopted Epic, the leading U.S. electronic health record system, which is headquartered in Wisconsin. Science background helped student journalist’s reporting on predicting infectious disease outbreaks
May 2019 Scientist and journalism student Prajakta Dhapte became fascinated with this predictive process and decided to delve into the modeling arena for a story published in Georgia Health News. See what she learned in this Q&A with Bara Vaida. Uncovering the safety flaws in IBM's Watson supercomputer Casey Ross  Ike Swetlitz September 2018 Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz describe that they initially got interested in IBM Watson because there were “a few chinks in the narrative“ the computing giant had been telling. Notably, one big cancer center had scrapped its project with IBM. Ross and Swetlitz describe their reporting process, and how initial stories on Watson for Oncology generated more leads and additional sources coming forward. 'Don't believe the hype:' Carreyrou talks about reporting the Theranos story
May 2018 In October 2015, Carreyrou began breaking stories on the Palo Alto, Calif.-based start up, which raised questions on its claim to have revolutionized the blood testing industry. Carreyrou was a keynote speaker at Health Journalism 2018. In his talk to fellow journalists, he explained how he got the Theranos story. His remarks have been condensed here. Turning an insider beat into a feature on ‘frequent fliers’
March 2018 Recently, that resulted in "The ‘Frequent Flier’ Program That Grounded a Hospital’s Soaring Costs," a 5,000-word feature that ran in Politico’s magazine about how technology-related health programs were impacting the lives of patients and providers. Get beyond the hype to cover health IT at conferences
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