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Health stories win at ONA for investigations, multimedia
The Online News Association has honored two of this year’s bumper crop of excellent health pieces with top honors in…
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Cash-strapped Ill. goes after hospitals’ nonprofit status
A New York Times article written by Bruce Japsen, an independent journalist writing for the Chicago News Co-Op, digs into…
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HHS releases guidelines for handling media requests
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has adopted a set of guidelines on how it will provide information…
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Agency declines to restore public data
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration resisted demands by three major journalism organizations for the immediate restoration of a…
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Public reporting of patient harm is a potent force
Marshall Allen The Las Vegas Sun series “Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas” identified cases of preventable harm…
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Agency declines to restore public data
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration resisted demands by three major journalism organizations for the immediate restoration of a…
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More journalism groups join effort to restore access to National Practitioner Data Bank
For immediate release Sept. 21, 2011 See how reporters have used NPDB’s public use file to expose gaps in oversight…
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More journalism groups join effort to restore access to National Practitioner Data Bank
Three additional journalism organizations have joined the campaign calling for the Obama administration to restore access to a public version…
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NYT reporters tease hip replacement numbers from difficult data
Writing for The New York Times, Barry Meier and Janet Roberts analyzed a particularly tricky batch of federal reports detailing…
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Journalism organizations offer data government blocked from public
Another development in the protest by three key journalism groups to the Obama administration’s decision to block public access to…
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