Kaiser Health hires Tahir to cover health tech

DARIUS TAHIR March 9, 2018. (M. Scott Mahaskey/Politico)

Kaiser Health News has hired Darius Tahir to cover health technology.

He will start in March.

“It’s an opportunity to describe how this new universe of tech tools are affecting patients on the ground,” he wrote on Twitter.

Tahir has been at Politico as its eHealth reporter for Politico Pro since May 2015. Before joining Politico, Tahir worked for Modern Healthcare, where he covered health care technology, and the Gray Sheet, where he covered medical devices and digital health.

He graduated from Stanford University in 2009.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.