This event draws top journalists, academics and advocates to explore how we have gotten to historically low levels of trust in news media and how we can ensure a free, courageous and responsible press in times of extreme partisanship. The conference is free and open to the public.
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1 event,The American Health Lawyers Association and the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law are having a conference discussing emerging legal challenges of transitioning the practice of health care to the Precision Medicine Initiative model. |
2 events,This event will bring together national experts, local community leaders, city residents, and faculty and students from Baltimore colleges and universities to examine a pressing topic related to the root causes of health. This year’s conference at Johns Hopkins University’s Baltimore campus will focus on vulnerable youth. |
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1 event,The Kaiser Family Foundation will host a web briefing for the media to explain how the cost-sharing reduction program works, where it stands now, and how consumers could be affected by either choice from the federal government. There will be new analysis presented on the magnitude of the cost-sharing payments and how much premiums would have to rise in different states to compensate for insurers’ loss of federal funding. |
2 events,Many diseases do not have a proven means of prevention or effective treatments. President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) announced in January 2015 hopes to remedy that by finding new treatments using the PMI medical model that proposes a customization of healthcare, with medical decisions, practices, and/or products being tailored to the individual patient’s genetic makeup and other patient-specific factors. This conference discusses the emerging legal challenges of transitioning the practice of health care to the PMI model. The Summit is aimed at evaluating the role of genomics, social and environmental determinants, ”‹and d”‹ata ”‹science ”‹on health disparities ”‹research. |
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1 event,Fostering Integrity in Research, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, examines challenges to scientific integrity facing the research enterprise and recommends steps that individual scientists, research institutions, research sponsors, journal publishers, and professional societies should take to meet these challenges and better protect integrity in research. |
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1 event,The challenges to journalists are coming fast and furious: Access denied, outright falsehoods, alternative facts and sources afraid to talk. The National Press Foundation is joining forces with the National Press Club Journalism Institute to host a half-day symposium on Wednesday, April 19 from 9 a.m. to noon in the Club’s Murrow Room. Panelists will include beat reporters and industry leaders. The goal is to help the working press learn to navigate the treacherous landscape facing us today. |
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1 event,CDC’s Acting Principal Deputy Director Dr. Patricia Simone will host a media availability for reporters. Four current EIS officers will describe the behind-the-scenes details of their investigations of acute flaccid myelitis, the drug-resistant fungus Candida auris, the opioid epidemic, and Zika. |
2 events,National Geographic photographers discuss their work documenting how boys and girls are viewed by societies. Medicaid programs could see dramatic changes this year and beyond, even if the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act continues to stall. Several states are taking a fresh look at expanding Medicaid under the ACA, while others are considering waivers under a new administration that will be receptive to experimentation.
This Alliance for Health Reform briefing for journalists will look ahead at actions that may be taken by Congress, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the states. |
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1 event,Brian Ahier from Medicity will give an overview of blockchains and their impact on HIE. |
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