Schwarzenegger replaces most of state nursing board
By TRACY WEBER AND CHARLES ORNSTEIN Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger replaced most members of the California Board of Registered Nursing on Monday, citing the unacceptable time it takes to discipline nurses...
View ArticleAfter Nurses Investigation, Scrutiny Turns to Other California Health Boards
By ALEXANDRA ANDREWS Earlier this month, ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times published an investigation detailing the failure of the California Board of Registered Nursing to investigate and...
View ArticleIllinois AG: Shady AIDS Charity’s Web Campaign Broke State Law
By CHRISTOPHER WEAVER Four months after we first reported on a sketchy AIDS "charity" with a nationwide fundraising campaign, authorities have begun to crack down. But the move might not have much...
View ArticleHospital Quality Group Obscures Hospital Quality Reports, Journalists Charge
By MICHAEL MILLENSON The Joint Commission, which accredits four-fifths of the nation’s hospitals, is being accused of misleading consumers about the quality of care at those hospitals and then ignoring...
View ArticleProPublica’s Pulitzer piss-take
By Matthew Holt In a decade when there are countless really, really important issues to investigate in health care, ProPublica took more than $400,000 and spent it on a rehash of a well known story....
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Why Drug Company-Doctor Interactions Are Good For Patients
By Diane Bieri Transparency is a powerful tool. Framed properly to illustrate the collaboration between America’s biopharmaceutical companies and physicians, it can empower patients to become more...
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Tracking the Social Doctor: Opening Up Physician Referral Data (And Much More)
By Fred Trotter I am happy to announce the release of the doctor “referral” social graph. This dataset, which I obtained using a Freedom of Information Act request against the Medicare claims database,...
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Going after the Wrong Doctors
By Ford Vox, MD A recent ProPublica expose co-published with the Boston Globe typifies a growing gotcha genre of health journalism that portrays doctors as the enemy in a struggle for honesty and...
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Government’s New Doctor Payments Website Worthy of a Recall
CHARLES ORNSTEIN If the federal government’s new Open Payments website were a consumer product, it would be returned to the manufacturer for a full refund. Open Payments is the government’s site for...
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After Transparency: Morbidity Hunter MD joins Cherry Picker MD
By SAURABH JHA, MD When report cards of performance became available, cardiac surgeons in New York and Pennsylvania avoided high risk patients. Could something similar happen, nationally, after the...
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