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Fred Schulte is a veteran investigative reporter who has worked for the Baltimore Sun and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist four times, most recently in 2007 for a series on Baltimore's arcane ground rent system. His other Pulitzer-nominated projects exposed excessive heart surgery death rates in veterans' hospitals, substandard care by health insurance plans treating low-income people and hidden dangers of cosmetic surgery in medical offices. He has received the George Polk Award, two Investigative Reporters and Editors awards, three Gerald Loeb Awards for business writing and two Worth Bingham Prizes for investigative reporting. Schulte is the author of Fleeced!, an expose of telemarketing scams that preyed mainly on the elderly. He was a 1997 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow and has been a contract reporter for the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
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Stories by Fred Schulte

Stimulus To Push Electronic Health Records Could Widen 'Digital Divide'

A year after Congress agreed to spend billions of dollars to encourage a national switch to electronic health records, many doctors and hospitals have grown skeptical of the pace and details of...

By Fred Schulte8 March 2010

Experts: Safety Oversight Needed as Patient Records Go Digital

Though electronic health records may greatly improve medical care in the future, the technology poses a host of safety concerns that demand attention to protect patients from harm, witnesses told...

By Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz
25 February 2010

FDA Considers Regulating Safety of Electronic Health Systems

Concerned about potential safety risks in health information technology, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may be moving closer to regulating the systems for the first time. 

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By Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz
23 February 2010

As Health Files Go Digital, Patients May Spot Unpleasant Surprises

As patients begin to assert control over records that thus far have remained almost exclusively in the custody of medical providers, many issues remain to be resolved.

By Fred Schulte26 January 2010

Electronic Health Records Probe Expands to Hospitals

A congressional inquiry into plans for spending billions of dollars in stimulus money on digital medical records is now questioning some of the nation’s most prestigious health care providers about possible safety flaws and other problems with the electronic systems.

By Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz
20 January 2010