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Business of Health Care: Speakers’ Materials
Lee Tien, Electronic Frontier Foundation Handouts and presentations from the October 2011 workshop held in San Francisco. Topics include hospital…
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Using the data to examine a hospital chain in California
Investigative reporter Christina Jewett explains how she and other journalists have analyzed data from California’s Office of Statewide Health Planning…
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Agency re-posts National Practitioner Data Bank file, but restrictions draw fire
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration today republished the public version of the National Practitioner Data Bank, after intense…
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AHCJ expresses concerns about new rules for federal doctor discipline database
The Association of Health Care Journalists welcomed the re-posting of the public version of the National Practitioner Data Bank today,…
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KevinMD: Media is key to curbing MRI overuse
On the MedPage Today outlet KevinMD.com, Dr. Kevin Pho himself writes that media coverage of the overuse of certain screening…
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Grassley blasts HRSA over data removal after seeing letter exchange with doc
The action taken by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to remove the public version of the National Practitioner…
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Reporter investigates high rates of elective procedures
Emily Bazar One of the goals of the Health Policy law is to change the payment incentives to get rid…
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Ghost authorship waning in top journals
On the academic publishing blog The Scholarly Kitchen, Phil Davis writes about the recent BMJ study indicating that ghost authorship…
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Ohio’s hospital transparency law under fire
Thanks are due to blogger and one-time hospital executive Paul Levy for drawing our attention to the Ohio hospital industry’s…
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Health Policy: Story shows how rival systems work toward accountable care
We hear a lot about accountable care organizations. What about “accountable care?” What questions do you have about Health Policy…
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