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Electronic medical records: Promised land or mirage?
Electronic medical record systems have been touted for years as the way to fix health care. Proponents say electronic prescribing…
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Business of Health Care: Tapping the holy grail of hospital data
How profitable is your local hospital? How much charity care does it provide? Do doctors there implant a disproportionate number…
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Reporters spend 10 weeks immersed in end-of-life care
Toronto Globe and Mail reporter Lisa Priest and photographer Moe Doiron spent two-and-a-half months embedded in a 20-bed critical care…
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Health Policy: Another poll, another confused public
Every month, we all get those embargoed Kaiser Family Foundation tracking polls in our email. As I open it, I…
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Antipsychotic use booms among Canadian kids
Writing for The Vancouver Sun and Postmedia News, Sharon Kirkey and Pamela Fayerman, report that, in an environment where the…
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New outlet to cover food, environment outlet opens with story on N.M. dairy regulation
Under Editor-in-Chief Sam Fromartz, The Food and Environmental Reporting Network has published its first story, a look at pollution and…
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Seattle hospitals love building costly ERs
The Puget Sound emergency room construction boom is in full swing, and Seattle Times reporter Carol Ostrom has taken a…
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Calif. center, ethnic outlets partner to examine elderly day care’s demise
The California HealthCare Foundation’s Center for Health Reporting partnered with no fewer than nine different organizations to produce a sprawling…
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Group effort documents effects of cutting services to seniors
Services that mean a world of difference to needy seniors – everything from meals on wheels to specially equipped vans…
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How might retail clinics change health care delivery in your community?
I don’t routinely blog about the work of AHCJ board members (which doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read Charles Ornstein’s latest…
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