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Report details errors in waiting-room death
The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Tom Avril reports on how hospital errors led to the death of a 63-year-old north Philadelphia guidance…
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Gawande, Google and health systems analysis
Earlier this month, New Yorker writer and surgeon Atul Gawande brought his checklist gospel (video) to the President’s Council of…
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Open government directive bears fruit, databases
In December, 2009 Peter Orszag, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, issued an Open Government Directive…
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Health Policy and the Supreme Court
Sarasota Health News‘ David Gulliver and Health News Florida’s Mary Jo Melone considered exactly how last Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling…
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Network to warn pharmacists of drug errors
The Wall Street Journal‘s Laura Landro spotlighted a new national network designed to send e-mail alerts to as many as…
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Drug data could inform stories about elder care
The 2007 National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS ) Medication Public-Use File and Documentation are now available for downloading.…
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Grassley questions hospitals for HIT investigation
Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz continue to stay on top of the stimulus/health information technology/Sen. Charles Grassley investigation story for…
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Addressing the growing demand for kidneys
Josephine Marcotty of the Minneapolis Star Tribune recently wrote a series addressing the increasing demand for kidneys, a need spurred…
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Denmark sees results from electronic records
In The New York Times, Sindya Bhanoo examines Denmark, a country which has adopted health information technology to a high…
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How Health Policy lost popular support
Kaiser Health News staff writers, including Jordan Rau, Mary Agnes Carey, Julie Appleby and Phil Galewitz, teamed up to figure…
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