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How do you report a story buried within 8,000 documents? Well, there’s an app for that
Audrey Dutton knew it was coming. Someday, she thought, a treasure trove of documents would be unsealed. These were the…
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Tools and sources for multimedia reporting
Independent journalists Andrea King Collier and Katti Gray, with Heidi de Marco of Kaiser Health News, presented a panel about multimedia…
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Coverage of legislative fight over hygienists spotlights work of regional health news service
Through public fights, complicated amendments and rumors of passage, Andy Miller of Georgia Health News followed the drama of House Bill 684.…
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Health care and the ‘tyranny’ of place #AHCJ16
What has the greatest impact on a person’s health? It’s not nutrition. It’s not education. It’s not even genetics. It’s…
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Covering health care quandaries in an anti-immigrant campaign year
Here’s a story worth looking at in the states, particularly in the midst of a pretty heated campaign season: health…
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Aging brains benefit from higher intensity physical exercise, study indicates
More confirmation on the benefits of exercise for older adults. In a recent study, those who reported doing little to…
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Document management systems can help find the story in thousands of pages
After a number of media companies, including my paper, the Idaho Statesman, successfully sued for court files improperly sealed during…
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Despite $30 billion spent to improve it, health information technology rated a top patient safety issue
Just seven years after the federal government announced plans to invest in health information technology (HIT) for physicians and hospitals,…
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Coverage of legislative fight over hygienists spotlights work of regional health news service
Through public fights, complicated amendments and rumors of passage, Andy Miller of Georgia Health News followed the drama of House…
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Telemedicine: New ways to deliver care and how to report on it #AHCJ16
At Health Journalism 2016 on Friday, David Pittman, an ehealth reporter for Politico, had some good advice for reporters covering telemedicine:…
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