This event will feature panels on the theme of “Incarceration-Its Consequences, Costs and Alternatives” with former offenders, leading experts in public policy, economics and social science, and community organizers.
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2 events,Submissions for NLGJA’s awards are due May 1. Enter your work for the Al Neuharth Award for Innovation in Investigative Journalism or for the Excellence in Journalism Awards. The Brookings Institution will host a forum and release three new papers focusing on crime and incarceration in the United States. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin will deliver opening remarks, and Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) will join the forum to discuss the Smarter Sentencing Act of 2014, which was recently passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee with bi-partisan support. |
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From debates over preventive screenings to wasteful use of high-cost imaging or emergency care, the pressure is on to rein in unnecessary, redundant or ineffective care. We’ll examine one effort, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s Choosing Wisely initiative. So far, more than 50 medical societies have offered up more than 200 tests, treatments and other interventions that “physicians and patients should question.” |
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The 11th Annual SAS Health Analytics Executive Conference will be streamed live online and include a keynote presentation at 8:15 a.m. by Farzad Mostashari, MD, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and the former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS.
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2 events,Researchers will release a new analysis from the West Health Policy Center that estimates that more price transparency in health care could be a source of more than $100 billion in savings over 10 years. This is the 74th policy forum held by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute, and will feature several panels of nationally recognized experts. |
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1 event,The clinical and economic virtues of provider consolidation have long been recognized by policy experts, but in recent years, research has shown that large provider organizations may use market power to obtain relatively high prices from payers without necessarily delivering superior quality. Health Affairs will release a package of “Web First” papers examining the issue from both sides.
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1 event,Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) will host this half-day webinar on price transparency. This event is free to the media. Journalists can register for the event here. May 20, online webinar, 11 a.m.-3:15 p.m. EDT. |
1 event,The Atlanta chapter of AHCJ is having a gathering May 21 to hear Michael Eriksen, dean of the School of Public Health at Georgia State University, speak about e-cigarettes. |
1 event,Ezekiel J. Emanuel is a knowledgeable, forthright, and morally engaged guide to the American health care system. A doctor, a bioethicist, a former advisor to the Obama administration, and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Emanuel has spent a generation writing, thinking, and advocating on health care reform. |
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1 event,The National Institute for Health Care Management will host this free webinar about how employers and health plan designers can encourage consumers to consider cost and quality when choosing health care providers. |
1 event,More than 100,000 older adults will participate in activities at more than 1,000 locations throughout the U.S. during the 21st annual National Senior Health & Fitness Day. The common goal for this day is to help keep older Americans healthy and fit. |
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