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Quake damage could cripple Calif. hospitals
In her series on earthquake preparedness at California hospitals, California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting senior reporter Deborah Schoch…
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Do small businesses in your area know about tax credit for offering coverage?
There’s been a fair amount of coverage about the lower-than-expected enrollment in high-risk pools created by the federal Health Policy…
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Journalists, researchers renew call for access to data during public call
Officials at the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration held a conference call on Thursday to seek input from the…
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Health journalism awards updated to reflect evolving media
The Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, which began accepting 2011 entries today, has been revamped to reflect the…
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Rising medical debt spawns problems, fosters solutions
Kelley Weiss, of the California HealthCare Foundation’s Center for Health Reporting, dug deep into the rising mountain of medical debt…
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Guidelines for journalists, public health officials strive to avoid Contagion-like situation
In an effort to prevent some of the fictional events of the movie “Contagion” from happening, health officials and AHCJ…
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String of errors made Stanford patient data public
In The New York Times, Kevin Sack traces the series of errors and lapses in judgement that led to a…
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More health journalists join AHCJ’s ranks
Please welcome AHCJ’s newest members and, if you haven’t already, consider following them on Twitter. All new AHCJ members are…
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Academic community joins call to restore National Practitioner Data Bank file
Twenty-three academics and researchers have added their voice to the growing condemnation of the Obama administration’s decision to remove the…
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‘On The Media’ covers NPDB controversy
This week’s “On The Media” show features AHCJ President Charles Ornstein discussing the public use file of the National Practitioner…
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