The Private Healthcare Exchanges conference July 16-17 in Chicago will focus on how the Affordable Care Act is changing the way insurers sell health insurance.

This conference of pulmonologists, critical care specialists and sleep specialists will gather in San Francisco in late May 2012.

Digestive Disease Week is the world’s largest conference of gastrointestinal specialists and researchers who specialize in gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery. Last year, roughly 300 companies from the pharmaceutical, nutrition, technology and noprofit industries exhibited their products and services at 1,000 booths. There will also be myriad presentations on healthcare technologies and gastrointestinal health products. Digestive Disease Week also hosts press releases and has its own newsroom for media benefit.

The 27th annual meeting of the American Society of Hypertension will convene in New York City on May 19, 2012. The conference aims to promote treatments, diagnoses and research related to hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

The world’s largest conference of urologists, which meets this year in Atlanta, offers than 100 courses and 2,000 presentations on urologic medicine. It provides access to new urology research, medical guidelines and advances.