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Future of primary care: Who will take care of you?
The list of problems with primary care today is long and long-standing. Patients are frustrated and confused. Providers feel pressure…
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Reporters fall prey to back pain study’s shady PR push
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed several 140-character conniptions I had last week over coverage of…
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Campaign strives to improve access to care; critics say ADA misses mark
Advocates for the poor and uninsured have worked long and hard to bring attention to the shortage of dental care…
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Covering primary care in the 21st century
Felice J. Freyer Primary care is where the rubber meets the road when it comes to health-system changes. Whether you…
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Medicare data shows dangerous prescribing habits, lack of oversight
ProPublica’s Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein and Jennifer LaFleur, in an analysis of Medicare prescription records, found that “some doctors and…
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Dates, location of Health Journalism 2014 announced
Health Journalism 2014, the annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists, will take place in Denver next year,…
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Reclassification impacts access to health care for millions of rural older adults
Back in January, the FCC announced $400 million in funding for creating and expanding rural broadband networks to support telemedicine…
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Denver named as Health Journalism 2014 site
Health Journalism 2014, the annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists, will take place in Denver next year,…
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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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