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Medical groups voluntarily tighten ethics rules
Writing for NPR’s health blog, Maggie Mertens reports that while recently passed reform legislation includes the “Physician Payments Sunshine Act”…
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WSJ: Small hospitals get little benefit from device
In The Wall Street Journal, John Carreyrou uses the problems of a small New Hampshire hospital to illustrate how difficult…
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Network promises ESPN-style surgery coverage
MDiTV, a new online network with several AHCJ members on its roster, has been in the works for a while…
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Can reporters raise health literacy in the community?
In a panel about health literacy at Health Journalism 2010, panelists looked at how journalists might communicate about health and…
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Hands-on experiences highlight AHCJ field trip
Her eyes blink, her pupils dilate and, yes, doctors, she has a pulse. She also can have a seizure and…
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Boulton explains comparative effectiveness
Next time somebody asks why the stimulus plan included $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research (and where all that money’s…
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24,000 Memphis patients rated their doctors
The Healthy Memphis Common Table is an effort to help patients and providers take charge of improving the city’s health.…
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Tracking health-related stimulus money
ProPublica's Michael Grabell offers tips and tools for tracking exactly where stimulus/ARRA money is going, both locally and nationally.
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Newly released data reveals inappropriate use of antipsychotics in nursing homes
Kay Lazar and Matt Carroll of The Boston Globe have written about nursing homes that use “antipsychotic drugs to control…
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Board adjusts scope of exhibit hall
A limited number of trade associations and partisan foundations will be allowed to exhibit at next year's AHCJ conference under…
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