Tip Sheets

A guide to health beat e-mail subscriptions

By Charles Ornstein

I’m often asked by colleagues how I stay abreast of health news and developments across the country. It takes time and it takes work. I start each day plowing through a slew of emails that summarize and aggregate health news from around the country, each with a different bent. So focus on the politics. Some focus on the policy. Others are state focused. While it may not be realistic to sign up for all of the email lists I do, here’s what I read.

I’m sure this list isn’t complete. Do you read anything else? Drop me a note at mailto:Charles.ornstein@propublica.org.

• HealthLeaders Media (I get the Daily News and Analysis)

• Kaiser Health News (I get the Daily Health Policy Report)

• The Morning Consult

• American Hospital Association News Now

• California Healthline

• Capital New York Health Care

• iHealthBeat

• Politico Pro Daily Digest

• Wonkblog

• HHS Inspector General

• Government Accountability Office

• MedPage Today

• McKnight’s Long Term Care News

• Health Law360

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• AHCJ E-Newsletter

• Reporting on Health

• Health News Review (sign up at the bottom of the page) 

Charles Ornstein is a senior reporter at ProPublica in New York and past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists.