This webinar, hosted by the American Dental Association Health Policy Institute, will examine findings of a new state-by-state analysis of dental care utilization in 2005 and 2013 among Medicaid and privately insured adults and children.

The University of Georgia’s College of Public Health holds its fourth annual State of Public Health conference in Athens, Ga.,…

Senior investigative reporter Beth Daley of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting will host a live chat on the NECIR web site about the use of genetic tests for psychiatric disorders, a subject Daley and other NECIR journalists covered for The Boston Globe.

The California Office of the Patient Advocate’s (OPA) will release the 2015-16 update of the California Health Care Quality Report Cards on October 8, 2015.

The Report Cards detail how California’s commercial HMOs, PPOs, and over 200 medical groups rate on quality of clinical care as well as on patient experience and receive evidence-based star ratings on their overall performance and specific clinical and patient experience data. 

The Policy Studies Organization at George Mason University sponsors the second annual Summit on Global Food Security and Health. 

The Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Association of Medicaid Directors hold a forum featuring Robin Rudowitz, associate director of KFF’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured; Vernon Smith, managing principal at Health Management Associates; Thomas Betlach, president of NAMD; Florida Deputy Secretary for Medicaid Justin Senior; and Colorado Medicaid Director Gretchen Hammer.

To empower patients to make treatment decisions in line with their values, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) will introduce an infographic tool for evaluating treatment decisions — the NCCN Evidence Blocks — at a press conference at the start of the NCCN 10^th Annual Congress: Hematologic Malignancies. Following opening remarks, a panel of physicians and patients will discuss the challenges and benefits presented by this new physician/patient dynamic in shared decision-making.

The National Institutes of Health is hosting a summit to explore how digital communication is being used by government agencies, clinicians, scientists, patients, and the public to share information on health and science.

Scott Harrington of University of Pennsylvania, Tom Miller of AEI, and Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute discuss what’s happened to the co-ops so far, and what’s likely in store.

This Forum will explore the factors driving the high cost of new drugs. What policy changes, from the drug approval process to patent law, could change the equation? Are some of these drugs worth the cost? And what can be done to make sure that patients can afford the medications that they need?

The Alliance for Health Reform and the Commonwealth Fund hold a 90-minute briefing in Washington to discuss the costs of mental health, substance abuse and other behavioral health issues.