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Webcast to explore how consumers, payers and provider groups can evaluate...
Next month, the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) will publish methodology that will allow consumers, health plans, provider organizations and others to better calculate complication...
View ArticleReporter finds mental health evaluations missed in ER that released murder...
Reporter Amy Neff Roth (@OD_Roth), of the Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch found an interesting story with the help of hospitalinspections.org. Roth, who attended Health Journalism 2015 as an AHCJ-New...
View ArticleDigging deeper into the Census’ new health insurance stats
Two fellow AHCJ core topic leaders, Susan Heavey and Joseph Burns, have looked at aspects of the recent census report that documents a sharp decline in the uninsured rate. (Susan’s look at poverty and...
View ArticleWebcast: Using NARMS Now, a CDC data tool on antibiotic resistance
This year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS Now), a database and visualization tool that makes it quicker and...
View ArticleProPublica offers rebuttal to Rand critique of Surgeon Scorecard
Not unexpectedly, ProPublica has published a response to the Rand Corporation’s recent 20-page critique of the journalism organization’s Surgeon Scorecard, a searchable database of complication rates...
View ArticleInitiative aims to use browsing histories to improve Wikipedia health content
It’s well known that Google, Facebook and dozens of other companies mine the browsing histories of their users and use that data for advertising. But imagine what we might learn if we homed in on the...
View ArticleAtlanta journalist finds one series leads to another … and another … and another
Cover health care, or any beat, long enough and most journalists will discover that one story leads naturally to another. Misty Williams (@ajchealthcare), who covers health care for The Atlanta...
View ArticleHow two U.S. health agencies are examining social determinants
Data is the new king of journalism, but when it comes to some aspects of the social sciences – such as the social determinants of health – the numbers can be a bit tricky to nail down. That may be...
View ArticleLooking back at 2015 on Covering Health
Bacon, chocolate, vaccines and Mark Cuban: Those were the topics of some of the most-read Covering Health posts of 2015. Of course there was plenty of reporting about health reform, the business of...
View ArticleStat details failure of research institutions to submit required study reports
A Stat investigation has found that “prestigious medical research institutions have flagrantly violated a federal law requiring public reporting of study results, depriving patients and doctors of...
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