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• Cracking Codes

  Learn about datasets that can help localize health stories, including pharmaceutical company spending on doctors, nursing home violations and hospital quality, among others. We will dive into Medicare data and data that local and state reporters can use.

  Tags: health data; Medicaid; nursing homes; drugs

  By David Donald

  2013

• Making Health Data Sexy

  Learn about datasets that can help localize health stories, including pharmaceutical company spending on doctors, nursing home violations and hospital quality, among others. We will dive into Medicare data and data that local and state reporters can use.

  Tags: Medicare data; nursing home; hospital; pharmaceuticals

  By Charles Ornstein

  2013

• The Impact of Poverty, and How to Convince Your Editors its Worth Writing About

  This Powerpoint presentation is a great guide to why you should cover poverty. Get your editor and your readers to care with Kelly's pitch ideas and story examples as well as steps to take to get started.

  Tags: poverty; data; HMDA; Department of Health; LED

  By Kimbriell Kelly

  2012

• Health Analyses for Any Newsroom

  Journalists have a duty to report on the hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, and clinics that provide medical treatment to their viewers, readers, and listeners. Learn tricks of the health reporting trade in this tip sheet.

  Tags: Health

  By Charles Ornstein, Jeff Porter

  2012

• One big-ass(arse) database – and other medical issues

  "Health databases can unlock important clues about matters of life and death in your community. From identifying unsafe hospitals to detecting questionable treatments used by doctors and their escalating costs, you can write important stories that have an immediate impact and lead to lasting change."

  Tags: health care; databases

  By David Donald

  2011

• Tips for Following Health Reform Where You Live

  Fairhall provides information on tracking and reporting on changes in the insurance marketplace in the face of health care reform. Included is a list of helpful websites covering health reform and insurance issues.

  Tags: insurance; health care; health reform; hospitals; insurers; medicare

  By John Fairhall

  2010

• Resources for health topics

  Richards highlights data on health topics including mortality, prescription drugs and hospital performance.

  Tags: Centers for Disease Control; mortality; National Bureau of Economic Research; National Center for Health Statistics (CDC); international classification of diseases; coroner; medical examiner; autopsy report; Drug Enforcement Agency; controlled substance task force; ARCOS; Automation of reports and Consolidated Orders System; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services; HCUPnet

  By Alex Richards

  2010

• Health Care Survival Guide: Investigating America's Hospitals

  Berens tipsheet addresses how to cover the health & science beat. He begins by stressing the 3 F's: "follow the paper; find the expert; and ferret out the research." Berens gives a list of basic public records pertinent to the beat; available databases; and "real world advice" based on his own experience covering health and science.

  Tags: health; science; FOIA; medical research; medicine; hospitals; adverse event reporting; MAUDE; Manufacterer and User Facility Device Experience; Excluded Individuals Database

  By Michael J. Berens

  2009

• Investigating Outbreaks

  Layton details how to cover foodborne illness outbreaks on the fly. Included along with details of where you gather information, Layton provides a detailed list of helpful resources - from consumer groups to subject experts.

  Tags: health; foodborne illness; FDA; Food and Drug Administration; CDC; Centers for Disease Control; 483 report; food safety

  By Lyndsey Layton

  2009

• Investigating Outbreaks: It's not just about food

  Young discusses how to go about investigating outbreaks that threaten public health. She touches on timely issues such as the swine flu outbreak (H1N1). Other stories to follow: sick passengers on airplanes; outbreaks of other notifiable diseases; and school vaccination law compliance

  Tags: health reporting; swine flu; H1N1; Centers for Disease Control; notifiable disease database; vaccinations; EMS

  By Alison Young

  2009