BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Association of Health Care Journalists - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Association of Health Care Journalists X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://healthjournalism.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Association of Health Care Journalists REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20110313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20111106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151112T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151112T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T161753Z CREATED:20231103T163841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T161753Z UID:26145-1447290000-1447290000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: Here's how consumers can evaluate physician quality DESCRIPTION:Watch it now\nSee a recording of this webcast. \nSpeaker’s presentation\nEMBARGO: This presentation and the white paper are embargoed until Wednesday\, Nov. 18\, at 8 a.m. ET. Journalists who want to follow up and get the white paper\, the press release and the state quality transparency report can contact Cary Conway at HCI3: cary@conwaycommunication.com | 972-731-9242 | @caryconway \nSlides from François de Brantes \nResources\nHealth Care Incentives Improvement Institute \nFrançois de Brantes on Twitter \nAHCJ Core Topic: Insurance \nAll-payer claims database \nAll-Payer Claims Database Council \nAtul Gawande on health care’s ‘dramatic transformation’ \n\nIn November\, the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) will publish methodology that will allow consumers\, health plans\, provider organizations and others to better calculate complication rates for individual physicians. \nThis has the potential to empower consumers\, payers\, and providers to do their own evaluations of physicians based on doctors’ rates of potentially avoidable complications (PACs). A PAC is any event that affects the patient negatively and is potentially under the physician’s or hospital’s control. \nAHCJ members are invited to a webcast at 1 p.m. EST on Nov. 12 with François de Brantes\, HCI3’s executive director\, who will explain the methodology and preview the results of the organization’s third annual State Report Card on Transparency of Physician Quality Information. \nRead more about the State Report Card on Transparency of Physician Quality Information. \nAbout the speaker \nFrançois de Brantes\, M.S.\, M.B.A.\, is executive director of the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3)\, a not-for-profit company that designs and implements innovative payment and benefit plan design programs. HCI3 works with states\, employers\, health plans and provider organizations\, as well as national consultanciesto advise them on payment and delivery system reform. \nPreviously\, de Brantes was the program leader for various health care initiatives at GE’s corporate headquarters\, responsible for developing and implementing GE’s Active Consumer strategy. \nHe has has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine\, the Journal of the American Medical Association and Health Affairs and is frequently quoted in national media including The New York Times. He has also published two books\, the latest being “The Incentive Cure: The Real Relief For Health Care.” \nJoseph Burns\, AHCJ’s core topic leader on health insurance\, will moderate the webcast.  \n\nFrançois de Brantes \n\n\nJoseph Burns URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-heres-how-consumers-can-evaluate-physician-quality/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151022T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151022T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T162456Z CREATED:20231103T163656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T162456Z UID:26124-1445475600-1445475600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Using NARMS Now\, a CDC data tool on antibiotic resistance DESCRIPTION:Watch it now\nSee a recording of this webcast. \nSpeaker’s presentation\nSlides from Regan Rickert-Hartman \n\nOct. 22\, Noon ET\nThis year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS Now)\, a database and visualization tool that makes it quicker and easier to see how antibiotic resistance for four bacteria transmitted commonly through food – Campylobacter\, E. coli O157\, Salmonella\, and Shigella – has changed during the past 18 years. \nThe tool allows users to access antibiotic resistance data by bacteria\, antibiotic\, year (1996-2013)\, and geographic region. It displays data on an interactive map or in tables. NARMS Now is designed to provide access to the most up-to-date antibiotic resistance results by uploading data regularly. \nIn this short webcast\, CDC personnel will demonstrate the tool and answer questions about how the data might be used. \n\n\nModerator: Maryn McKenna\, independent journalist\, Atlanta \n\n\nRegan Rickert-Hartman\, senior epidemiologist and program coordinator\, NARMS\, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \n\n\nRegan Rickert-Hartman is a senior epidemiologist and the program coordinator for the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System at the CDC. She has spent the past 14 years working as an infectious disease epidemiologist at the CDC and the state health department in Pennsylvania. \n \n\nRegan Rickert-Hartman \n\n\nMaryn McKenna URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/using-narms-now-a-cdc-data-tool-on-antibiotic-resistance/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150930T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150930T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T162509Z CREATED:20231103T163656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T162509Z UID:26123-1443574800-1443574800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Tracking U.S. population changes and their impact on health DESCRIPTION:Urban Institute researchers H. Elizabeth Peters\, Steven Martin and Nan Astone will share their latest findings on shifting U.S. demographics and how the nation’s changing population is raising issues related to health. \nThe group will provide their most recent analysis of people living in the United States and related social characteristics\, looking at age\, geography and other data\, and discuss future research on contraception access. \nThe trio of experts will offer insights from recent data on those characteristics in residents ages 20 to 29\, known as millennials\, and how that group’s demographics is impacting the current and future U.S. population. \nReporters will learn more about how to find the latest trends in U.S. demographics to spark larger discussions about demographics\, millennial\, race\, marriage and population trends. Susan Heavey\, AHCJ’s topic leader for social determinants of health care\, will moderate the webcast. \nSept. 30\, 3:30 p.m. ET\n\n\nNan Marie Astone\, senior fellow in the Center on Labor\, Human Services\, and Population at the Urban Institute \n\n\nSteven Martin\, senior research associate in the Center on Labor\, Human Services\, and Population at the Urban Institute \n\n\nElizabeth Peters\, director\, Center on Labor\, Human Services\, and Population at the Urban Institute \n\n\nModerator: Susan Heavey\, AHCJ core topic leader on social determinants of health \n\n\nNan Astone joined the Urban Institute in 2013 after serving 24 years on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a demographer with expertise on reproductive health\, the family\, adolescence\, and the transition to adulthood. Astone\, a former William T. Grant Scholar\, received her PhD from the University of Chicago. \nSteven Martin works on various topics in social demography; his particular area of interest has been modeling demographic events across the life course. His recent work has covered a range of demographic topics across the life course\, such as nonmarital childbearing\, fertility timing\, childlessness\, union formation and dissolution\, and age at entry into sexual activity as well as topics in time use\, wellbeing\, the “digital divide\,” and the quality of data from event-history surveys. \nElizabeth Peters is the director of the Center on Labor\, Human Services\, and Population at the Urban Institute. An economic demographer\, her research focuses on family economics and family policy\, specifically examining the effects of public policies such as divorce laws\, child support policy\, child care policy\, taxes\, and welfare reform on family formation and dissolution; inter- and intra-household transfers; father involvement; and family investments in children. \nHow to participate\n \nA link to the webcast will appear on this page about 15 minutes before it begins. (You may need to refresh the page if you don’t see the link.) \nNOTE: This is exclusively for AHCJ members; you will need to be logged in. If you’re having trouble logging in\, please email info@healthjournalism.org. \n\nNan Astone \n\n\nSteven Martin \n\n\nElizabeth Peters \n\n\nSusan Heavey URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/tracking-u-s-population-changes-and-their-impact-on-health/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150902T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150902T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T161904Z CREATED:20231103T163557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T161904Z UID:26113-1441155600-1441155600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:An examination of bundled payment: How insurers and providers are dispelling the myths DESCRIPTION:Watch it now\nSee a recording of this webcast. \nRead about it\nExpert takes on ‘myths’ about bundled payments \n \nResources\n\n\nExplanation of bundled payment programs \n\n\nAHCJ webcast will address how payers\, providers are implementing bundled payment \n\n\nHealth Care Incentives Improvement Institute \n\n\nBundling Badly \n\n\nThe Payment Reform Landscape \n\n\nMedicare’s Poorly Designed Proposal \n\n\nThe Incentive Cure \n\n\nWhat is Prometheus Payment \n\n\nAHCJ’s insurance core topic \n\n\nAHCJ’s health reform core topic \n\n\nCovering Health blog: Insurance \n\n\nCovering Health blog: Health reform \n\n\n\nSept. 2 at 1:30 pm ET\nJoin us for a webcast with François de Brantes on how health insurers and providers are making bundled payment work. As executive director of the nonprofit Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute\, de Brantes has been working with health plans and providers to implement bundled payment programs since 2007.  \nAs we reported recently\, bundled payment initiatives from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have been criticized for not taking full advantage of this innovative payment model. In the private sector\, however\, health insurers\, hospitals\, and physicians are demonstrating how to fully develop bundled payment programs and make the operational adjustments needed to ensure their long-term success. \nIn this webinar on Wednesday\, Sept. 2\, at 1:30 pm ET\, de Brantes will discuss how providers and payers are getting good results from bundled payment programs and expanding many of these initiatives. \nAbout the speaker \nFrançois de Brantes\, M.S.\, M.B.A.\, is executive director of the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3)\, a not-for-profit company that designs and implements innovative payment and benefit plan design programs. HCI3 works with states\, employers\, health plans and provider organizations\, as well as national consultanciesto advise them on payment and delivery system reform. \nPreviously\, de Brantes was the program leader for various health care initiatives at GE’s corporate headquarters\, responsible for developing and implementing GE’s Active Consumer strategy. \nHe has has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine\, the Journal of the American Medical Association and Health Affairs and is frequently quoted in national media including The New York Times. He has also published two books\, the latest being “The Incentive Cure: The Real Relief For Health Care.” \nJoseph Burns\, AHCJ core topic leader on health insurance\, will moderate the webcast.  \n \n\nFrançois de Brantes \n\n\nJoseph Burns URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/an-examination-of-bundled-payment-how-insurers-and-providers-are-dispelling-the-myths/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150723T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150723T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150847Z CREATED:20231103T163527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150847Z UID:26101-1437613200-1437613200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Master your market: Data to cover insurance under the ACA DESCRIPTION:See the recording of this webcast. \n\nSpeaker’s presentation \n\n\nSlides from Katherine Hempstead(khempstead@rwjf.org\, @khemp64) \n\n\n\nResources\n\nGet the data: Annual Exhibit of Premiums\, Enrollment\, and Utilization\n\nAHCJ’s insurance core topic \n\nAHCJ’s health reform core topic\n\nCovering Health blog: Insurance \n\nCovering Health blog: Health reform\n\nRate filings \n\n\nPlan characteristics for all silver plans \n\n\nData from CMS on Medicare Advantage enrollment and Part D enrollment by plan for every state and every month. This is useful for assessing the impact of mergers. The Wall Street Journal used the data for its analysis. \n\n\n\n \n\nJuly 23\, noon ET\nKatherine Hempstead\, who directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s work on health insurance coverage\, will be sharing data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Annual Exhibit on Enrollment\, Premiums\, and Utilization for 2014 that will provide information on insurance carriers in each state – their enrollment\, premiums collected\, claims incurred\, and several measures of utilization\, including hospital admissions and hospital days\, and also physician and non-physician ambulatory care visits. \nThe data offers a level of detail not available from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It is available for the non-group (individual)\, small group\, and large group markets. While the data does not break down enrollment on and off health insurance exchanges for the non-group market (those who do not require subsidies can sign up outside of the exchanges)\, there are steps you can take to estimate these numbers by state. \nReporters on this call will learn more about the carriers in their state’s insurance markets and their claims experience for different product lines. Charles Ornstein\, a senior reporter at ProPublica\, will moderate the webcast. Neil Vance\, a senior actuary with New Jersey’s Department of Human Services\, also will participate. \nHow to participate in the webcast:\nClick here and a new window will open. Choose the option to “Enter as a Guest” and type in your name. Click on the “Enter Room” button. \n \n\nKatherine Hempstead \n\n\nCharles Ornstein URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/master-your-market-data-to-cover-insurance-under-the-aca/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150327T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150327T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150845Z CREATED:20231103T162726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150845Z UID:26057-1427418000-1427418000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Tips for pitching to top publications DESCRIPTION:View a recording of this webcast\nSpeakers’ presentations\n\n\nJihan Thompson \n\n\nBecky LangDiscover‘s pitch guidelines \n\n\nAnna Miller \n\n\nResources\n\n\nHealth Journalism 2015 \n\n\nAHCJ’s 2015 Freelance PitchFest \n\n\nBuilding a business \n\n\nNetworking \n\n\nInsurance issues \n\n\nTechnology \n\n\nAHCJ’s Freelance Center \n\n\n \n\nMarch 27\, 1 p.m. ET\nA big feature in a glossy magazine can bring more than financial rewards. Writing for top publications strengthens your platform and boosts your chances of receiving a prestigious fellowship\, or even a book deal. On the practical side\, working with highly skilled editors will boost your writing and reporting skills. However\, breaking into top-tier magazines takes an exceptionally good pitch letter. \nIn this webcast\, a panel of editors will explain what they need to see in a top pitch letter. (Hint: you’ll need more than a winning idea.) A great pitch also needs to include the right information about yourself to convince the editor that you have the chops to pull off the story you’re proposing. \nFinally\, the panel will also detail exactly what they expect of writers in one-on-one pitch meetings\, such as AHCJ’s annual Freelance PitchFest.    \nParticipating editors:\nJihan Thompson has covered health for O\, The Oprah Magazine for more than two years. She handles front-of-book wellness stories that range from nutrition pieces to medical trend stories to scientific breakthroughs to first-person narratives\, as well as edits well features on a range of topics. Prior to joining O\, she was an editor at Redbook and Marie Claire magazines. She enjoys running half-marathons and testing out new fitness classes. \nBecky Lang is a senior editor at Discover Magazine\, where she’s worked since early 2013. She moved to the magazine world from newspapers after 11 years as the health/science/environment editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She’s been writing and editing as a job since high school\, where she covered minor league baseball in Helena\, Mont. She’s a graduate of Northwestern University. She loves skiing\, hiking and camping with her 11-year-old son\, and hanging out with their two dogs. \nAnna Miller is a consumer advice reporter at U.S. News & World Report\, where she covers fitness\, nutrition\, mental health and more. She also edits the popular “Eat Run” blog and manages U.S. News Health’s social media accounts. Previously\, she was associate editor of Monitor on Psychology and gradPSYCH magazines\, and has freelanced for The Washington Post and its weekend magazine. Miller earned her master’s degree in interactive journalism from American University in 2014. \nThe webcast will be moderated by Jeanne Erdmann\, an award-winning freelance health and science writer based near St. Louis. Her stories have appeared in Discover\, Women’s Health\, Slate\, Aeon\, The Washington Post\, Nature Medicine\, Nature and many other outlets. She also co-founded and co-produces The Open Notebook\, a craft-focused website for science writers. \n \n\nJihan Thompson \n\n\nBecky Lang \n\n\nAnna Miller \n\n\nJeanne Erdmann URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/tips-for-pitching-to-top-publications/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150310T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150310T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150843Z CREATED:20231103T162727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150843Z UID:26059-1425949200-1425949200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:The other part of health reform: Changing the delivery of care DESCRIPTION:View a recording of this webcast \nSpeaker’s presentation \n\n\nSlides from Patrick Conway(Patrick.Conway@cms.hhs.gov or press@cms.hhs.gov) \n\n\n\nResources\n\n\nAHCJ’s health reform core topic \n\n\nCovering Health blog: Health reform \n\n\nCMS Innovation Center \n\n\nNext Generation ACO Model \n\n\n\n \n\nMarch 10\, 1 p.m. ET\nUPDATE: As part of his remarks\, Patrick Conway\, M.D.\, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services principal deputy administrator\, will discuss a new CMS initiative regarding accountable care organizations that is launching today. Webcast content is embargoed until 2 p.m. Eastern Time. \nReforms to the health care delivery system have been overshadowed by the Affordable Care Act enrollment story. \nThe ACA is more than a way to extend health care coverage to millions of Americans. The 2010 law also takes steps to shift how we deliver health care – to do a better job of managing chronic diseases\, to make hospitals safer\, to move away from fee-for-service\, to get more quality for our health care spending. It’s a big challenge but it doesn’t get as much attention as the coverage aspects of the ACA\, partly because it’s not so politically radioactive. \nThe ACA created the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to test new ways of delivering care\, to evaluate what works and then to spread the word. CMMI director Patrick Conway\, M.D.\, M.Sc.\, – who was also just named the deputy administrator for CMS – will join AHCJ for a webcast to describe some of what CMMI is doing and share some early results. Conway will talk about accountable care organizations\, medical homes and the recently announced HHS push to speed up the move from fee-for-service to a value-based payment system. Health care providers around the country are taking part in CMMI initiatives and private sector counterparts. There are stories galore to be found. \nThe initiatives in payment and delivery reform have three goals – getting improved quality\, without spending more. Or cutting costs\, but keeping quality intact. Or – the holy grail – improving quality AND reducing cost. \nJoanne Kenen\, AHCJ’s health reform core topic leader\, will lead the discussion and moderate questions and answers from reporters. \nSpeaker\nPatrick Conway\, M.D.\, M.Sc.\, is the deputy administrator for innovation and quality & CMS chief medical officer. He leads the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at CMS. CCSQ is responsible for all quality measures for CMS\, value-based purchasing programs\, quality improvement programs in all 50 states\, clinical standards and survey and certification of Medicare and Medicaid health care providers across the nation\, and all Medicare coverage decisions for treatments and services. \n \n\nPatrick Conway\, M.D. \n\n\nJoanne Kenen URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/the-other-part-of-health-reform-changing-the-delivery-of-care/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150202T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150202T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150842Z CREATED:20231103T162428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150842Z UID:26041-1422838800-1422838800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Elder abuse and health: What you should know DESCRIPTION:View a recording of this webcast\nSpeaker’s presentation\n\n\nBob Blancato(bob@elderjusticecoalition.com) \n\n\nResources\n\n\nAHCJ’s Aging Core Topic \n\n\nCovering Health blog: Aging \n\n\nElder Justice Coalition \n\n\nStatistics/Data from the National Center on Elder Abuse \n\n\nKey provisions of Elder Justice Act \n\n\nNational Adult Protective Services Association \n\n\n \n\n \nElder abuse affects an estimated one in 10 older adults in the U.S.\, according to the National Center on Elder Abuse. That does not include financial exploitation. Advocates say much more can and should be done – such as the recent $4 million Congressional appropriation for a portion of the Elder Justice Act as part of the FY2015 Omnibus spending bill.  \nThe many forms of physical and psychological abuse seriously affect older adults’ health and wellbeing. What is being done about it and how reporters can bring more of these issues to light in their own communities? \nJoin Liz Seegert\, AHCJ’s core topic leader on aging\, and Bob Blancato\, national coordinator of the Elder Justice Coalition\, a 3\,000-member bipartisan coalition working to increase funding and awareness of this issue\, on Monday\, Feb. 2\, at 2 p.m. ET for our webcast. \n \n\nLiz Seegert \n\n\nBob Blancato URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/elder-abuse-and-health-what-you-should-know/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150127T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150127T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T162000Z CREATED:20231103T162444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T162000Z UID:26044-1422320400-1422320400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Looking ahead: A reporter's guide to Children’s Dental Health Month DESCRIPTION:View a recording of this webcast\n \nSpeaker’s presentation\n\nShelly Gehshan\n\nResources\n\n\nAHCJ’s Oral Health Core Topic \n\n\nTip Sheet: School-based dental sealant programs \n\n\nPew Charitable Trusts: Children’s Dental Policy \n\n\nCovering Health blog: Oral health \n\n\n \n\nIn advance of Children’s Dental Health Month in February\, we will discuss the latest research on oral health and how it may impact policy in the states. \nShelly Gehshan\, director of  children’s dental policy at The Pew Charitable Trusts\, also will provide perspective on oral health programs that are making a difference and the issues that may provide barriers to improving dental health. \nStories include how a program in North Carolina has improved children’s oral health by utilizing doctors to help apply fluoride varnish. Gehshan also will discuss the benefits of dental sealant programs and some of the barriers at the state level that prevent these programs from reaching more children. \nOur webcast will be hosted by Mary Otto\, AHCJ’s Oral Health core topic leader.  \nDate & time:2 p.m. ET\, Jan. 27  \n \nShelly Gehshan (@SGehshan) directs children’s dental policy at Pew\, supervising work with states to expand access to prevention and treatment for children through policy changes in Medicaid\, sealant programs\, community water fluoridation and the dental workforce. She speaks frequently about an expanded dental workforce and the benefits of community water fluoridation. She helped legislators in Minnesota draft the nation’s first state law licensing dental therapists. She served on the Institute of Medicine panel that released a major report in 2011 on the dental access problem. Gehshan spent nearly 20 years working for state policy makers on a range of issues affecting low-income women and children. \n\nShelly Gehshan \n\n\nMary Otto URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/looking-ahead-a-reporters-guide-to-childrenaes-dental-health-month/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141111T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141111T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T162542Z CREATED:20231103T155436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T162542Z UID:26018-1415667600-1415667600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:What reporters need to know about covering Ebola DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording of this webcast\nResources\n\n\nCDC’s guidance for health care workers and settings \n\n\nEmory Healthcare Ebola Preparedness Protocols \n\n\nCovering Health: Ebola \n\n\nEmory University’s Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response \n\n\nMedline Plus: Ebola \n\n\nNational Insitute of Allergy and Infectious Disease: Ebola/Marburg Research \n\n\nCenter for Infectious Disease Research and Policy \n\n\n \n\nMedia audiences far away from west Africa are seeing more and more Ebola-related stories in their own states or communities. What do reporters need to know? \nAHCJ members will get some help sorting out the answers to that question in a webcast on Tuesday\, Nov. 11\, noon Eastern time. \n \nPose your questions to Alexander P. Isakov\, M.D.\, M.P.H.\, executive director of Emory University’s Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response. Emory has treated four Ebola patients. Mike Stobbe\, medical writer for The Associated Press\, will pose your questions to our guest. \nYou’ll hear insights into the facts of Ebola that reporters should know\, leaving with better understanding of the topic\, story ideas and reliable resources. \nAlexander P. Isakov\, M.D.\, M.P.H.\, is the executive director of Emory University’s Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response and an associate professor of emergency medicine. He has led the development of the new CEPAR office and its various initiatives to improve Emory’s capacity for emergency management. His professional experience includes service as an officer in the United States Navy\, consulting for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, deploying with the National Disaster Medical System\, and providing leadership in emergency medical services and disaster response throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area. Isakov practices clinically in the emergency departments of Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University Hospital. \nMike Stobbe\, Dr. P.H.\, is a medical writer for The Associated Press. He has been a health reporter for the past 23 years\, and has won several awards for his work. Previously\, he covered health care and medicine at The Charlotte Observer\, the Tampa Tribune\, the Florida Times-Union and The Flint Journal in Michigan. He has a doctorate in public health from the University of North Carolina\, a master’s degree in public health from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. \n\nAlexander P. Isakov \n\n\nMike Stobbe URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/what-reporters-need-to-know-about-covering-ebola/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T155933Z CREATED:20231103T155352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155933Z UID:26003-1413421200-1413421200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Fluoridation and your community DESCRIPTION:Watch a recording of this webcast.\nResources\n\n\nAHCJ Core Topic: Oral Health \n\n\nWater fluoridation: What reporters need to know \n\n\nCampaign for Dental Health (I Like My Teeth) \n\n\n \n\nCommunity water fluoridation has been hailed as one of the public health triumphs of the 20th century. For more than 65 years\, communities across the United States have been supplementing naturally occurring fluoride in water supplies to promote oral health. At what are considered optimum levels\, numerous studies have shown fluoride reduces cavities. At the same time\, critics continue to fight water fluoridation efforts\, armed with papers they say highlight the dangers of fluoride. \nWith battles playing out in communities from Alabama to Oregon\, what do reporters need to know about the science and pseudo-science behind water fluoridation? Our webinar will feature Shelly Gehshan\, director of  children’s dental policy at The Pew Charitable Trusts\, and Mary Otto\, AHCJ’s Oral Health core topic leader.  \nDate & time:2 p.m. ET\, Oct. 16  \n \nShelly Gehshan (@SGehshan) directs children’s dental policy at Pew\, supervising work with states to expand access to prevention and treatment for children through policy changes in Medicaid\, sealant programs\, community water fluoridation and the dental workforce. She speaks frequently about an expanded dental workforce and the benefits of community water fluoridation. She helped legislators in Minnesota draft the nation’s first state law licensing dental therapists. She served on the Institute of Medicine panel that released a major report in 2011 on the dental access problem. Gehshan spent nearly 20 years working for state policy makers on a range of issues affecting low-income women and children. \nFor technical questions about fluoridation\, contact William Maas\, adviser for the Children’s Dental Policy\, The Pew Charitable Trusts: BMaas-consultant@pewtrusts.org \nMaas is the former director of the Division of Oral Health in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. \n\nShelly Gehshan \n\n\nMary Otto URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/fluoridation-and-your-community/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140923T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140923T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T155947Z CREATED:20231103T155209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155947Z UID:25986-1411434000-1411434000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: Covering how states will prepare for second ACA enrollment season DESCRIPTION:Watch a recording of this webcast.\nSpeaker’s presentation\n\n\nHeather Howard \n\n\nResources\n\n\nAHCJ Core Topic: Health Reform \n\n\nState Health Reform Assistance Network \n\n\nHealth insurance issuer participation and new entrants in the health insurance marketplace in 2015 \n\n\n \n\n \n2 p.m. ET\, Sept. 23\n \nThe second enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act begins in November – just after the elections. What do states have to do to prepare? What tasks await the states using HealthCare.gov versus their own exchanges? \nWe have a chance to ask Heather Howard\, a lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton\, and the director of the State Health Reform Assistance Network\, which is providing technical assistance to states implementing the ACA. \nJoanne Kenen\, AHCJ’s topic leader on health reform\, will moderate the discussion and will be available for questions from journalists about this critical enrollment period. \n \nHeather H. Howard is the director of the State Health Reform Assistance Network\, a program within the Center for Health and Wellbeing that provides technical assistance to states to maximize coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act. She is a lecturer in public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and a faculty affiliate at CHW. Howard brings experience in both federal and state government to the State Network and the WWS. She most recently served as the commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Health and Senior Services\, a cabinet level agency with a budget of approximately $3.5 billion. There she was responsible for oversight of public health services\, regulation of health care institutions\, hospital financing\, senior services and health care policy and research. Her prior public policy experience includes work in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives\, the Domestic Policy Council at the White House\, and the Health Care Task Force within the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Justice Department. Howard received a bachelor of arts from Duke University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.  \nHeather Howard \nJoanne Kenen URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-covering-how-states-will-prepare-for-second-aca-enrollment-season/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140916T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140916T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T155948Z CREATED:20231103T155214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155948Z UID:25993-1410829200-1410829200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: Frailty and its impact on health DESCRIPTION:Watch a recording of this webcast.\nSpeaker’s presentation\n\n\nSamuel Durso\, M.D. \n\n\nResources\n\n\nAHCJ Core Topic: Aging \n\n\nJohns Hopkins University’s Older Americans Independence Center \n\n\nStay Strong: Four Ways to Beat the Frailty Risk \n\n\n\nRecorded Sept. 16\nFrailty is a real concern for older adults and the clinicians who treat them. \nThe U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says 5 percent to 15 percent of adults aged 65-74 are frail; by the time they’re over 85\, it’s 25 percent to  40 percent. \nThis condition – a progressive decline in multiple body systems – is associated with greater mortality\, increased burden of chronic disease\, risk of infections\, falls\, and hospitalization. \nJoin Samuel Durso\, M.D.\, director of geriatric medicine and gerontology at Johns Hopkins\, and Liz Seegert\, AHCJ ‘s topic leader on aging\, to discuss the implications of frailty on health\, what and how reporters should cover in their communities. \nSamuel Christopher Durso\, M.D.\, is the Mason F. Lord professor of medicine and director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. His clinical concentration is on caring for older adults with complex health needs in the office and hospital settings. He has done considerable research in the field of geriatrics.  \nLiz Seegert \nSamuel Durso URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-frailty-and-its-impact-on-health/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140814T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140814T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T155952Z CREATED:20231103T155209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155952Z UID:25985-1407978000-1407978000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: How value-based insurance design breaks down barriers to care DESCRIPTION:Watch a recording of this webcast.\nSpeaker’s presentation\n\n\nA. Mark Fendrick\, M.D. \n\n\nResources\n\n\nInsurance: Resources in AHCJ’s core topic area \n\n\nCenter for Value-Based Insurance Design \n\n\n@UM_VBID on Twitter \n\n\nSubscribe to the V-BID e-newsletter \n\n\n\nMark Fendrick\, M.D.\, the director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) at the University of Michigan\, will explain the principals of VBID and why this strategy is important for consumers. Most health insurers do not use VBID when implementing cost-sharing strategies with consumers. Instead they use what Fendrick calls a “one-size-fits-all approach\,” such as high copayments and high-deductible health plans. \nYet\, these cost-sharing strategies can be a financial barrier to care for low-income patients who have chronic illnesses and thus need access to low-cost medications and medical services. When such financial barriers are reduced\, the result is increased patient compliance with physicians’ recommendations\, Fendrick says. \nDuring the webcast\, Fendrick will explain the concept of VBID and discuss why a bill\, just introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives\, is needed to allow the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to start a VBID demonstration project for members of Medicare Advantage plans. Insurance core topic leader Joe Burns will discuss story ideas and resources for reporting with Fendrick. \n \nMark Fendrick\, M.D. \nJoseph Burns URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-how-value-based-insurance-design-breaks-down-barriers-to-care/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140515T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140515T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160022Z CREATED:20231103T154858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160022Z UID:25954-1400115600-1400115600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Getting dental care to elders in nursing homes DESCRIPTION:Archived recording\nSee a recording of this webcast. \nSpeakers’ presentations\nJudith Jones\, D.D.S. \nGregory J. Folse\, D.D.S. \nBeth Truett \nResources\nState of Decay: A national report card on the oral health of elders from Oral Health America \nTooth Wisdom: Oral health resources for seniors from Oral Health America \nSpecial Care Dentistry Association \nADA resource covers use of incurred medical expense option to cover dental care costs \nOral Health: Resources in AHCJ’s core topic area \n\nNoon ET\, May 15Although more national research is needed to understand the full extent of the problem\, studies show that seniors in nursing homes often go without dental care. \nThe lack of care can take a devastating toll on health and quality of life and impacts seniors who have their natural teeth as well as those who don’t. Our panel of experts will take a look at the need for oral health services in nursing homes and some steps that are being taken to get this care to patients. \nThe speakers \n\n\nAs president of Outreach Dentistry\, Gregory J. Folse\, D.D.S.\, maintains a mobile\, geriatric dental practice in Lafayette\, Louisiana\, a comprehensive school-based dental practice throughout Louisiana\, and lectures extensively. Nationally\, he was instrumental in writing the oral health section of the Minimum Data Set found in every facility residents’ chart\, training state nursing facility surveyors through CMS and trained the Gold Standard Nurses for facility oral health compliance. \n\n\nJudith Jones\, D.D.S.\, is a spokesperson for the American Dental Association\, a member of the national Elder Care Advisory committee and serves on the Journal of the American Dental Association editorial board and on the American Board of Dental Public Health. She is professor and assistant dean for faculty development and director of the Center for Clinical Research at the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. She has organized and led conferences focused on disparities in access to and outcomes of care for elders. Her research interests include geriatric oral health and the relationships between systemic health\, oral health and quality of life. \n\n\nBeth Truett is president and chief executive officer of Oral Health America. Last fall\, Oral Health America\, a national non-profit organization\, released a national report card on the oral health of elders called State of Decay  that highlighted serious needs in many states. Truett will offer insights about the barriers many seniors face to getting dental care both at home and in institutions\, as well as the health impacts that can result from a lack of dental care. \n\n\nMary Otto\, AHCJ’s core topic leader on oral health\, will moderate the discussion and take questions from participants. \n\n\n \n \nGregory Folse \nJudith Jones \nBeth Truett \nMary Otto URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/getting-dental-care-to-elders-in-nursing-homes/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140429T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140429T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160033Z CREATED:20231103T154850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160033Z UID:25947-1398733200-1398733200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Family Caregiving: View from the front row DESCRIPTION: \nWatch now\nSee a recording of this webcast. \nResources\n\n\nMissing Jim\, Karen Garner’s blog \n\n\nFamily Caregiver Alliance \n\n\nSally Abrahms on LinkedIn \n\n\n\nWhat is it really like to be a family caregiver for someone with dementia or serious illness? What are some of the key issues that aren’t being discussed? And how can journalists better bring untold caregiver stories to light? \nJoin us on Tuesday\, April 29\, at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT)\, for “Family Caregiving: View from the front row” with: \n\n\nKathleen Kelly\, executive director\, National Center on Caregiving\, Family Caregiver Alliance\, the first community-based nonprofit organization in the country to address the needs of families and friends providing long-term care for loved ones at home] \n\n\nKaren Garner\, wife\, mother\, and caregiver to a husband diagnosed at age 48 with younger-onset Alzheimer’s \n\n\nSally Abrahms\, award-winning writer and blogger on boomers and caregiving for AARP and other media – who will speak about her work and also provide insight as a primary family caregiver for the past 14 years. \n\n\nLiz Seegert\, AHCJ’s topic leader on aging\, will moderate the discussion. \n\n\nThere will be plenty of time for the speakers to address questions from the participants. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/family-caregiving-view-from-the-front-row/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140409T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140409T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160145Z CREATED:20231103T154849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160145Z UID:25945-1397005200-1397005200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Finding fresh stories in newly released Medicare data DESCRIPTION:Resources\nSee a recording of this webcast. \nSpeakers’ presentation: \n460 kB PDF \n\nAs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services prepares to release payment information for individual doctors\, AHCJ will host a webcast to help reporters find the stories in the data. \nAHCJ will host a webcast at 4 p.m. ET Wednesday about the CMS data with details of Medicare payments to individual physicians and other health care professionals. The details will include the number and type of services provided\, and the amount paid for those services delivered in 2012. \nJournalists can use this data to help consumers to make more informed choices about the care they receive. AHCJ has long advocated for the release of this data. \nThe new data provides a more detailed picture of how physicians practice in the Medicare program\, and the payments they receive. This data contains information on more than 880\,000 health care professionals in all 50 states who collectively received $77 billion in payments in 2012 for services delivered to beneficiaries under the Medicare Part B Fee-For-Service program. With this data\, it will be possible to conduct a wide range of analyses that compare 6\,000 different types of services and procedures provided\, as well as payments received by individual health care providers. \nSpeakers:\n\n\nNiall Brennan\, acting director\, CMS Offices of Enterprise Management \n\n\nMarc Hartstein\, director\, CMS Center for Medicare’s Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group \n\n\nCharles Ornstein\, senior reporter\, ProPublica; member of AHCJ board of directors \n\n\nChristopher Powers\, acting director of the CMS Office of Information Products and Data Analytics’ Information Products Group \n\n\n \nRelated\n\n\nCharles Ornstein: Caution in order when tackling newly released Medicare data \n\n\nPresentation from Christopher Powers \n\n\nIntro to investigating health data using spreadsheetsThis tutorial will give you a jumpstart on using spreadsheets to investigate health data. While it’s important to remember that a spreadsheet can give you a lead but can’t replace your news judgment\, this will help you navigate around spreadsheets\, understand some basic references and learn some good practices in dealing with data. \n\n\nFinding patterns and trends in health data: Pivot tables in spreadsheetsExcel pivot tables are a powerful way to organize\, interpret and manipulate numerical data. In this tip sheet\, reporters will learn the skills necessary to apply these tables in real-world situations\, URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/finding-fresh-stories-in-newly-released-medicare-data/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140228T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140228T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150840Z CREATED:20231103T154525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150840Z UID:25933-1393549200-1393549200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Beyond the Basics of Pitching: Becoming That Dream Writer DESCRIPTION:Resources\nSee a recording of this webcast. \nSpeakers’ presentation: \n381 kB PDF \n\nFeb. 28\, 12 p.m. CT\nEditors are busy folks who receive many more emails each day than they can ever hope to answer. How can a writer\, who’s new to a publication\, craft such an impressive pitch\, that even if the story doesn’t sell\, keeps the door wide open for next time? A panel of top editors will talk about pitches they loved and could not walk away from. Using examples of successful pitches-to-story\, they’ll explain the formula for pitches that are memorable – in a good way – starting with the subject line. \nPerhaps most important\, even experienced writers can struggle with writing pitches that identify a story and not a topic. Writers may do so much pre-pitch research that it’s easy to forget that we’re actually not prepping for a master’s thesis; there’s a great story somewhere in that pile of PubMed searches. Our panel of editors will give their best advice on how to make your pitch communicate that story\, and impress them in the process. \nParticipating editors:\n\n\nJim Giles\, Matter \n\n\nRobin Lloyd\, Scientific American \n\n\nMore about the speakers:\nJim Giles writes about the interface between science\, technology and society. He is the co-fournder of Matter and a Medium editor. His work has appeared in The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, Nature\, New Scientist\, the Guardian and many other outlets. \nRobin Lloyd\, a science writer going back to the Galileo mission to Jupiter\, is Scientific American’s news editor\, responsible for planning\, editing and assigning stories for SA‘s website and managing its home page. She also oversees SA‘s social media efforts. Previously\, she was a senior editor for LiveScience.com and SPACE.com. She has experience in print journalism (Pasadena Star-News)\, wire service journalism (City News Service in Los Angeles) and network online journalism (CNN.com). She worked for five years as a science publicist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and received a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 1998-1999 academic year.  \nThe webcast will be moderated by Jeanne Erdmann\, a freelance health and science writer based near St. Louis. She writes about cancer\, genetics\, genetic testing\, genetic counseling and osteoarthritis. Her stories have appeared in Women’s Health\, Slate\, The Washington Post\, Nature Medicine\, Nature\, Cure and others. Erdmann was chosen for a 2013 AHCJ Reporting Fellowship on Health Care Performance\, with assistance from the Commonwealth Fund. She also co-produces The Open Notebook\, a craft-focused website for science writers.  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/beyond-the-basics-of-pitching-becoming-that-dream-writer/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140128T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140128T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150840Z CREATED:20231103T154324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150840Z UID:25918-1390870800-1390870800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Covering news about screenings\, preventive health recommendations DESCRIPTION:Resources\nSee a recording of this webcast. \nSpeakers’ presentation: \n679.3 kB PDF \n\nJan. 28\, 2 p.m. ET\nThe U.S. Preventive Services Task Force often finds itself in the news when determining what works and doesn’t work in screenings and preventive care. It told healthy women not to bother with calcium and vitamin D pills\, said many women could wait on mammograms until age 50 and recently clarified who might benefit from regular lung cancer screening tests. \nThe task force’s work lies in translating medical evidence into clinical practice\, which can be a difficult and contentious task. Its recommendations are often nuanced and misunderstood. \nHow does the group come to these determinations and how can you report on the science and not just the heat a recommendation generates? What is evidence-based medicine and how does the USPSTF use it to make recommendations on health care services? \nIn this webcast\, USPSTF chair Dr. Virginia Moyer and co-vice chair Dr. Michael LeFevre will explain how the task force works in an effort to deepen our reporting of upcoming task force recommendations. A Q&A with the doctors\, moderated by AHCJ medical studies topic leader Brenda Goodman\, will follow. \n \nAbout the speakers\nVirginia A. Moyer\, M.D.\, M.P.H.\, chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force\, is the vice president for maintenance of certification and quality at the American Board of Pediatrics. She is a board-certified pediatrician with expertise in ambulatory care\, diagnostic testing\, and evidence-based medicine. She is also an experienced researcher\, lecturer\, and author. \nMoyer has served as deputy editor of Pediatrics and is a past member of the American Academy of Pediatrics steering committee on quality improvement and management. She serves as editor or reviewer for numerous pediatric journals\, including being a founding editor of Evidence-Based Child Health\, a Cochrane Review journal. \nPreviously\, Moyer was the head of the Academic General Pediatrics Section and a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. She served as chief quality officer for medicine and chief of academic medicine service at Texas Children’s Hospital and as a professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the University of Texas Medical School\, where she was also the associate director of the Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine. Moyer is a member of the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group and the steering committee for the Cochrane Collaboration Child Health Field. \nMoyer was a member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force from January 2003 to December 2008. She returned to the Task Force as Chair in March 2011 for a three-year term. \nMichael L. LeFevre\, M.D.\, M.S.P.H.\, co-vice chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force\, is the Future of Family Medicine professor and vice chair in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. \nAs director of clinical services for the Department of Family Medicine\, he oversees eight practices that have 100\,000 outpatient visits\, 2\,500 admissions\, 5\,000 nursing home visits\, and more than 200 obstetric deliveries each year. He maintains an active family medicine practice. \nLeFevre served for a decade as the chief medical information officer for University of Missouri Health Care. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in 2011 and has been named to the “Best Doctors in America” list annually since 1996. \nHis research and clinical interests include family medicine\, information technology in clinical care\, clinical practice guidelines\, preventive services\, and women’s health care. \nLeFevre has been a member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force since January 2005 and was appointed co-vice chair in March 2011. \nBrenda Goodman is AHCJ’s medical studies core topic leader. She helps guide journalists through the jargon-filled shorthand of science and research and enables them to translate the evidence into accurate information that their readers can grasp. \nGoodman has been a health and science reporter for 15 years across a variety of platforms. Her stories have appeared in Scientific American\, The New York Times\, Psychology Today\, Self\, Health\, Parade and The Boston Globe. She is a regular news writer for WebMD. She has a master’s degree in science\, health\, and environmental reporting from New York University and lives in Atlanta. \nVirgina Moyer \nMichael LeFevre \nBrenda Goodman URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/covering-news-about-screenings-preventive-health-recommendations/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131218T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131218T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150839Z CREATED:20231103T154224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150839Z UID:25902-1387328400-1387328400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Medicare: Whose Entitlement Is It? DESCRIPTION:Resources\nSee a recording of this webcast. \nSpeakers’ presentations (PDFs): \n\nStacy Sanders\nRosemary Gibson\n\n\nWednesday\, Dec. 18\, 2 p.m. ET\n \nAbout the webcast\nMedicare reform is a hot topic on the agenda for the bipartisan congressional budget committee whose Dec. 13 deadline for a compromise deal on a federal spending plan is looming. Both political parties have proposed raising the Medicare eligibility age and premiums on older adults\, among other changes.    \nIn the midst of this debate\, two policy experts will help AHCJ members understand:  \n\n\nwhat are the underlying forces driving up Medicare spending and what does it mean for older adults? \n\n\nwhat is being done to combat waste\, fraud and overtreatment? \n\n\nhow did Medicare become a big business and a darling of Wall Street? \n\n\nwhere does the money for Medicare come from and where does it go? How much of Social Security income are seniors paying for Medicare?   \n\n\nwill boomers be able to find a doctor when they become eligible for Medicare? \n\n\nwhat rights and protections do older adults have in this changing Medicare landscape? \n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\nRosemary Gibson\, senior adviser to The Hastings Center  \n\n\nStacy Sanders\, M.S.W.\, is federal policy director at the Medicare Rights Center \n\n\nModerator Liz Seegert\, AHCJ’s core topic leader on aging and an independent journalist \n\n\nAbout the speakers\nRosemary Gibson is national authority on patient safety and the health care industry. She’s a senior adviser to The Hastings Center and an editor for JAMA Internal Medicine. She’s authored several books\, including “The Treatment Trap\,” which puts a human face on overtreatment\, and “Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It\,” which examines the business of Medicare and its impact on the fiscal challenges facing the federal program for older Americans. Gibson led national health care initiatives at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for 16 years.  She holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. \nStacy Sanders\, M.S.W.\, is federal policy director at the Medicare Rights Center a national\, nonprofit organization that works to ensure that older adults and people with disabilities understand their rights and benefits\, navigate the system and gain affordable\, quality care.  Previously\, Sanders led national campaigns to enhance income security for older adults\, including strengthening social security for older women. She completed her master’s at the University of Michigan as a fellow of the Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education. She is an executive fellow of the Center for Progressive Leadership\, a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and served as co-chair of the Income Security Committee of the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations in 2011. \nModerator Liz Seegert is AHCJ’s core topic leader on aging. Her reporting and writing background spans more than 25 years in print\, broadcast and digital media covering consumer and professional health topics. Seegert’s writing credits include Kaiser Health News\, New America Media\, Women \, Home Care Technology Report and professional journals\, such as the Journal of Healthcare Information Management and Practical Diabetology. She is a regular contributor to theHealthCetera\, blog and to the award-winning HealthStyles radio show (WBAI/Pacifica)\, both part of the Center for Health\, Media and Policy at Hunter College\, NYC\, where she is a senior fellow. \nRosemary Gibson \nStacy Sanders \nLiz Seegert URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/medicare-whose-entitlement-is-it/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131212T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131212T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150838Z CREATED:20231103T154125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150838Z UID:25899-1386810000-1386810000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:The cost of health care: Is transparency possible? DESCRIPTION:Resources\nSee a recording of this webcast. \nSpeakers’ presentations: \n\n\nSuzanne Delbanco\, Ph.D. \n\n\nKatherine Hempstead\, Ph.D.\, \n\n\n \nAHCJ Core Topic: Insurance \nWill price transparency drive up health care costs? \nInsurance highlights from Covering Health \nCompanies rethink roles in the new health economy \nFive Takeaways from the National Transparency Summit \nAll Payer Claims Database \nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation Hospital Price Transparency Challenge \nOkay Copay \nChange Healthcare \nIntermountain Healthcare extends data-driven approach to reducing costs \nUnaccountable\, by Marty Makary\, M.D. \nChoosing Wisely \nChoosing Wisely: How to avoid unnecessary tests and treatments\, Consumer Reports \nChoosing Wisely: An Initiative to Improve the Quality and Safety of Health Care \nFlip the Clinic consumer experience \nOpenNotes \nMedical practice survey \nPros and Cons of Concierge Medicine \nProvider consolidation \nCPR Market Power Summit \nImpact of hospital consolidation \nMass. health care delivery system map \nReport care on state price transparency laws \nThe Effects of Price Transparency Regulation on Prices in the Healthcare Industry \nGood examples of why we should talk about transparency in health care costs \nCompare prices at N.Y. hospitals: Look up procedures\, compare costs\, charges \nTransparency: Big Data Sexy and Pricey \nNational Summit on Health Care Price\, Cost and Quality Transparency \nTransparency is key to free-market cost control  \nHigh Deductibles Fuel New Worries of Health-Law Sticker Shock \n\nOn Jan. 1\, many formerly uninsured Americans will have health insurance coverage and thus will be prepared to engage the health system. \nBut the newly insured will be like most Americans using the health care system today: They will lack the information they need about the cost of health care services and about how much of the total cost is their responsibility. \nAnd\, like most Americans\, many of the newly insured will have high-deductible health plans and thus may face sticker shock when they visit and physician or hospital and learn how much they have to pay out of pocket until they reach their deductible. \nThis lack of price transparency is widespread in the U.S. health care system. Yet\, for years\, health insurers and employers have been shifting the responsibility to pay for care to consumers and employees. Clearly there is a pressing need for information on the cost of care. \nAHCJ will explore these issues during a one-hour webcast on price transparency on Dec. 12 at 1 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. Pacific). \nSpeakers:\n\n\nSuzanne Delbanco\, Ph.D.\, executive director of the Catalyst for Payment Reform in San Francisco \n\n\nKatherine Hempstead\, Ph.D.\, senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton\, N.J. \n\n\nModerator: Joseph Burns\, AHCJ topic leader on health insurance \n\n\n \nSuzanne F. Delbanco \nKatherine Hempstead \nJoseph Burns URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/the-cost-of-health-care-is-transparency-possible/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131029T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131029T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150836Z CREATED:20231103T153553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150836Z UID:25884-1383008400-1383008400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: Will families buy kids’ dental benefits on new exchanges? DESCRIPTION:Resources\nRecorded webcast \nSpeakers’ presentations (PDFs): \n\nColin Reusch\nEvelyn F. Ireland\nMary E. Foley\n\nTip sheet: Pediatric dental benefits on the health insurance exchangesHow is your state coping with the challenges of offering pediatric dental benefits? And will the benefits result in getting more kids the dental care they need? Oral health topic leader Mary Otto explains the issues and why states could be making some controversial decisions in implementing this part of the law. \nHow I did it: Covering pediatric dental benefitsAs Mary Otto wrote in a recent blog post\, Chad Terhune of the Los Angeles Times has done a good job of writing about the complexities of fitting pediatric dental benefits into California’s exchange. He shares his insights into the unfolding story and offers advice to AHCJ members who might want to see how this issue is playing out in their own states. \nHandouts:9-26-13_Joint-Dental-Org-Letter-to-Treasury-IRS.pdfACA-Dental-Coverage-Basics-Sept2013Update.pdfNADP-Issue-Brief-ACA-Dental-Tax-Credits-July2013.pdf \n\nApproximately 8.7 million children could gain extensive dental coverage through the ACA by 2018. For children\, the expansion will be almost evenly split among Medicaid (3.2 million)\, health insurance exchanges or marketplaces (3 million) and employer sponsored insurance (2.5 million). The inclusion of pediatric dental benefits in the health care reform law was hailed as a breakthrough by advocates working to get dental services better integrated into the nation’s larger health care system. \nNow states are tackling the challenges of offering dental benefits on their exchanges. What services are they offering? Are they affordable? Are families buying them and will they know how to use them? \nAs for Medicaid expansions\, how are qualifying kids who need coverage going to get it? \nDo states have strategies for guiding new families to care in places where there is a short supply of dentists? \nWe’ll get early assessments of whether health care reform is actually getting dental care to more kids\, through private insurance and Medicaid expansions. Panelists will include Colin Reusch of the Childrens Dental Health Project\, who will offer a national look\, as well as Evelyn Ireland\, executive director of the National Association of Dental Plans. Mary Foley\, executive director of the Medicaid CHIP State Dental Association\, will address how Medicaid expansions may be working in some states to get dental benefits to kids under the ACA. \nTo participate\n Click here and choose the “Enter as a Guest” option. Type your name in the box where indicated and then click on the “Enter Room” button. \nSpeakers:\nMary E. Foley\, R.D.H.\, M.P.H.\, has served as executive director of the Medicaid CHIP State Dental Association since 2009. The association works to develop and promote evidence-based oral health best practices and policies. Previously\, Foley was the dean of the Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She has worked as a project director at the Children’s Dental Health Project and as director of the Office of Oral Health at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. \nColin Reusch is a policy analyst at the Children’s Dental Health Project where he tracks implementation of health care reform\, researches and drafts issue briefs and policy documents\, and provides guidance and direction in identifying and pursuing policy initiatives as they relate to improving oral health. CDHP is a national nonprofit organization that works to achieve equity in children’s oral health. Prior to joining CDHP\, Reusch worked on young alumni programs at Eastern Kentucky University and local government policy issues at the Kentucky League of Cities. \nEvelyn F. Ireland is executive director of the National Association of Dental Plans\, which promotes and advances the dental benefits industry to improve consumer access to affordable\, quality dental care. Ireland has more than 40 years of experience in government and insurance. She worked for 10 years as an insurance regulator and for the Texas legislature as well as Congress. \nModerator: \nMary Otto is AHCJ’s oral health core topic leader\, keeping AHCJ members updated on the latest resources on dental care and policy. Otto\, an independent journalist\, got interested in covering oral health in 2007\, writing about the death of a child who had suffered complications from an untreated dental infection. At the time\, she was working at The Washington Post. She left that job in 2008 but has continued to write about oral health\, as a freelance writer for the Post\, drbicuspid.com\, and other publications. \nMary E. Foley \nColin Reusch \nEvelyn F. Ireland \nMary Otto URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-will-families-buy-kidsae-dental-benefits-on-new-exchanges/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131022T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131022T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150835Z CREATED:20231103T153552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150835Z UID:25883-1382403600-1382403600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: Using fellowships to advance your freelance career DESCRIPTION:A recording of this webcast is now available.\nSpeakers’ PowerPoints:• Jeanne Erdmann• Michelle Levander• Rebecca Palpant Shimkets \nHere is AHCJ’s list of available fellowships. \n\nFreelancers often walk a fine line between doing work that pays the bills and doing work that helps them reach their creative and career goals. Reporting fellowships are a way to do both. There are a number of reporting fellowships out there\, and most are open to freelancers. But how do you make yourself stand out? How do you line up the clients\, the story ideas and the plans for doing a fellowship\, all while maintaining your other freelance work? In this webinar\, directors of two prominent health journalism fellowships – the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism and the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships – and a freelancer who is completing her first reporting fellowship with the Association of Health Care Journalists address: \n\n\nHow to find the right fellowship for you. \n\n\nThe basics of applying as a freelancer. \n\n\nHow to make yourself stand out. \n\n\nHow fellowships can move you in the direction of the career of your dreams. \n\n\nPanelists\nJeanne Erdmann is a former bone researcher turned freelance health and science writer. Her work has appeared in Cure\, Nature\, Nature Medicine\, Arthritis Today\, Science News\, Health\, the website for Scientific American\, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She has upcoming features in Women’s Health and Discover. The 2013 AHCJ Reporting Fellowship on Health Care Performance is her first fellowship and she’s enjoying every minute of it. For her project\, she’s writing about disparities in access to genetic counseling\, genetic testing\, and to follow up care. One of her stories will run in the November issue of Nature Medicine\, and two will go in Slate in November and December. In addition to freelancing\, Erdmann and colleague co-produce The Open Notebook\, a craft focused site for science journalists. \nRebecca Palpant Shimkets is assistant director for The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism of the Carter Center Mental Health Program\, which awards stipends to 10 professional journalists in the United States\, South Africa\, and Romania each year to produce a significant work on mental health or mental illnesses. The fellowship program has been sustained in New Zealand as the New Zealand Mental Health Media Grants Program through a partnership between Like Minds\, Like Mine and the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand. Palpant Shimkets is an active participant on advisory boards and within national work groups related to stigma and accurate portrayals of mental illnesses in the media. \nMichelle Levander is founding director of The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships and editor-in-chief of its website\, ReportingonHealth.org. Levander has reported in Asia\, Latin America and the United States for Time Magazine Asia\, The Asian Wall Street Journal and The San Jose Mercury News. During her journalism career in California\, Levander wrote about education\, business health policy\, worker health and safety\, and the culture of Silicon Valley. In Asia\, she reported from China\, India\, South Korea\, and Vietnam on the region’s fast-changing technology scene. She was founding editor of The Technology Journal at The Asian Wall Street Journal and Technology Editor at Time Asia. She has received journalism awards from the Overseas Press Club of America\, the Inter American Press Association\, and the Society of Professional Journalists. A former Inter American Press Association fellow\, she spent a year in Mexico\, studying at Mexico City’s El Colegio de Mexico and researching migrant culture from rural Mexico. \nModerator\nHeather Boerner is a San Francisco-based health and medical writer and editor with more than a dozen years of experience at newspapers\, websites and as a freelance health journalist\, with newspapers\, magazines\, custom publications and websites. She was the recipient of a  Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism and winner of a 2011 Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. \nJeanne Erdmann \nRebecca PalpantShimkets \nMichelle Levander \nHeather Boerner URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-using-fellowships-to-advance-your-freelance-career/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150834Z CREATED:20231103T153552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150834Z UID:25882-1381971600-1381971600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: How will rural Americans tap into the insurance marketplaces? DESCRIPTION:A recording of this webcast is now available.\n\nSpeakers’ PowerPoints:• Al Cross• Alan Morgan• Jim Doyle \n\nIn the launch of health insurance exchanges across the country\, one issue that has not been explored much is how the marketplaces will affect rural Americans. AHCJ will sponsor a webcast on this topic on Thursday\, Oct. 17\, at 2 p.m. Eastern. \nAbout rural Americans and insurance\nNearly one in five uninsured Americans live in rural areas\, and a greater proportion of rural residents lacks health insurance compared with the proportion of urban residents without health care coverage. One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to help make health insurance coverage affordable and accessible for the approximately 60 million Americans who live in rural areas. The federal Department of Health and Human Services has said the health insurance marketplaces will help to lower costs by increasing competition\, especially in the 29 mostly rural states where a single insurer currently dominates more than half of the health insurance market. \nWhether the ACA does in fact lower costs by increasing competition remains to be seen\, but lower costs is a significant goal given that studies show that one in five U.S. farmers faces medical debt and\, on average\, families pay about half of their health care costs out-of-pocket\, HHS said. \nSpeakers\nThe panelists will be Al Cross\, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky; Alan Morgan\, CEO of the National Rural Health Association; and Jim Doyle\, who covers the business of health care for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. AHCJ health insurance topic leader Joseph Burns will serve as moderator. \nResources\nSmall Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) \nAl Cross \nAlan Morgan \nJim Doyle \nJoseph Burns URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-how-will-rural-americans-tap-into-the-insurance-marketplaces/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150834Z CREATED:20231103T153551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150834Z UID:25880-1380157200-1380157200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Federal exchanges: News briefing for regional and local reporters DESCRIPTION:A recording of this news briefing is now available. Click here.\nIf you work in one of the states that is not developing its own health insurance exchange\, here is your chance to get the scoop on the federal exchange or ones operated through federal state partnerships. This phone-web conference\, sponsored by AHCJ\, will give you direct access to question and quote officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services who are involved in developing this critical aspect of Obamacare. Up to 100 AHCJ members can access the conference via their computers – attendance will be first come\, first served. Questions will be submitted during the conference and an AHCJ moderator will pose them to the CMS officials for on-the-record answers. \n\nGary Cohen\, deputy administrator and director\, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight\nJulie Bataille\, director\, CMS Office of Communications\nModerator: Tony Leys\, health care reporter\, The Des Moines Register\n\n1:30-2 p.m. Eastern time\, Thursday\, Sept. 26.\nGary Cohen joined CMS in August as deputy administrator and director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO). Cohen returned to CMS to lead the implementation of a major component of the ACA from his most recent position as chief counsel to the California Health Benefit Exchange Board. Previously\, Cohen was the director of the Oversight Group at CCIIO\, responsible for implementation\, compliance and enforcement of the market rules\, medical loss ratio\, and rate review provisions. In previous positions\, he served as deputy commissioner and general counsel for the California Department of Insurance\, chief of staff to then-Congressman John Garamendi and general counsel of the California Public Utilities Commission. \n  \n  \nJulie Bataille leads strategic communications efforts for federal programs delivering health care to millions of Americans. She oversees communications planning\, marketing\, creative services\, web strategy\, media relations and call center operations. Before joining CMS\, Bataille was the associate vice president of communications for Georgetown University. She served as deputy director of communications for Vice President Gore and the Gore 2000 Presidential Campaign and was press Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education. She was an assistant press secretary at the White House during the Clinton administration and began her career in the office of then-Sen. Joe Biden. \n  \n  \nTony Leys is a health care reporter at The Des Moines Register\, where he has worked since 1988. He was a 2011-12 AHCJ Regional Health Journalism Fellow. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/federal-exchanges-news-briefing-for-regional-and-local-reporters/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130807T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130807T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T162946Z CREATED:20231103T153412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T162946Z UID:25859-1375837200-1375837200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: Aging and end-of-life care DESCRIPTION:Reporting on end-of-life issues can be touchy for everyone involved and journalists need to handle issues of death and dying with sensitivity and skill. Understanding the processes\, both clinical and legal\, the nuances\, and methods to manage such emotional issues with patients\, families\, and care providers\, will result in more effective and powerful stories.  \nSharpen your reporting skills and learn more about treatment decision making\, health care near the end of life\, hospice and palliative care and ethical issues that accompany them. \n \n»» Click here to watch the recorded webcast.\nOur expert panel includes:\n\n\n\n\nV.J. Periyakoil\, M.D.\, is director of Palliative Care Education and Training at Stanford University\, director of the Stanford University Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program\, Stanford University\, director of the VA Interprofessional Fellowship in Palliative Care\, at the VA’s Palo Alto Health Care System and associate director of Palliative Care Services at VA Palo Alto Health Care System. She will talk about cross-cultural health issues that arise in working with patients and families. \nHer paper\, “Multicultural Long-Term Care Nurses’ Perceptions of Factors Influencing Patient Dignity at the End of Life\,” is available to AHCJ members. \n\n\n\n\nNancy Berlinger\, Ph.D\, is a research scholar at The Hastings Center and an author on end-of-life care. Her interests include treatment decision-making and care near the end of life; ethical issues in the management of chronic illnesses; access to health care for undocumented immigrants and migrant workers; and the ethics of workarounds and other practices for managing problems of safety and harm in health care systems. \nBerlinger directed The Hastings Center project that produced the revised and expanded second edition of the Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life. Journalists can get a review copy of the guidelines by contacting Susan Gilbert at the Hastings Center at gilberts@thehastingscenter.org or 845-424-4040 x244. \n\n\n\n\nLisa Krieger is a San Jose Mercury News health reporter whose multi-part series on death and dying chronicled her personal experiences with the process. At the center of Krieger’s unflinching account of her father’s last days is an uncomfortable question: “Just because it’s possible to prolong a life\, should we?” Her articles\, which won an AHCJ Award of Excellence in Health Care Journalism\, brought an outpouring of reaction from readers\, demonstrating that reporters can sometimes tell the story from an unusual perspective and touch readers in a different way than would be possible with more traditional coverage. \n\n\n\n\nLiz Seegert\, AHCJ’s topic leader on aging will moderate. Seegert writes blog posts\, assigns and edits tip sheets and articles and gathers resources to help AHCJ members cover the many issues around our aging society. Her reporting and writing background spans more than 25 years in print\, broadcast\, and digital media\, covering an array of consumer and professional health topics\, including wellness/prevention\, chronic disease management\, women’s health\, aging\, health policy and health IT. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-aging-and-end-of-life-care/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130305T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130305T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T163027Z CREATED:20231103T153155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T163027Z UID:25825-1362445200-1362445200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Secrets of pitching: Tips\, tricks and insight into editors’ minds DESCRIPTION:Maryn McKenna \n\n\n\n\nBrendan Maher \n\n\n\n\nAnna Maltby \n\n\n\n\nColleen Paretty \n\n\n\n\nFollow this link to access the webcast…\n\nHow to craft a pitch that sells.\nHow to build editor relationships that yield assignments.\nHow to read publications to figure out what they buy and what they need.\nHow to become the go-to freelancer in an editor’s stable.\nHow to make the most of your brief meetings at Pitchfest.\n\nFor freelancers and potential freelancers\, pitching is job No. 1. AHCJ knows that; that’s why every year\, our annual Health Journalism conference offers Freelance PitchFest\, which puts you face-to-face with some of the biggest health editors in the country. Members attending Pitchfest know they have to be ready to make a good impression in minutes — and members who won’t be attending the conference\, but are busy freelancers\, want to know more about pitching too. \nAHCJ has your back. You’re invited to a webcast on Tuesday\, March 5\, at 3 p.m. EST on pitching health stories that sell. \nEditors on the panel\, moderated by independent journalist Maryn McKenna\, will be: \n\nBrendan Maher\, features editor\, Nature\nColleen Paretty\, executive editor\, WebMD\nAnna Maltby\, associate health editor\, Self\n\nAt this webcast\, you’ll get: \n\nA sneak peak at their assignment processes.\nTips on prepping your pitches before you arrive at the conference.\nTips on what to do if your pitch isn’t strong but you know you’re right for the publication.\nInformation on how to pitch outside of the conference\, if you’re not scheduled for PitchFest.\n\nThe webcast will include a Q&A session. \nFollow this link to access the webcast… URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/secrets-of-pitching-tips-tricks-and-insight-into-editorsae-minds/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130227T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130227T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150830Z CREATED:20231103T153151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150830Z UID:25823-1361926800-1361926800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Global aging: A report from the World Economic Forum on key challenges\, solutions & opportunities DESCRIPTION:Resources\nSee the recording of this webcast. \nDownload the PowerPoint presentation (PDF) from the event. \nGlobal Population Ageing: Peril or Promise? \n\nOne key issue addressed at the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) was the rapidly increasing global aging population; and how to prepare for its profound impact on global health\, as well as the direct economic\, social and political implications. \nGlobal experts from the WEF Global Agenda Council on Ageing led this discussion in Davos and presented a new report outlining key challenges/opportunities associated with global aging\, including how to improve healthy aging through the innovation of global health systems and investment in long-term health options; as well as specific initiatives to seize the social and economic opportunity created by the aging population.   \nWe would like to invite you to a webinar on Wednesday\, Feb. 27 at 2 p.m. EST with the following leaders from the WEF Council on Ageing to discuss these topics and share specific outcomes from their discussion in Davos: \n\nDr. John Beard: director\, Department of Ageing and Life Course of the World Health Organization;  chairman\, WEF Global Agenda Council on Ageing\nDr. Linda Fried: epidemiologist and geriatrician; Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University; Member\, WEF Global Agenda Council on Ageing\nMr. Paul Hogan: co-founder/chairman of Home Instead Senior Care; vice chairman\, WEF Global Agenda Council on Ageing\nModerator: Liz Seegert\, independent journalist\n\nAn open Q&A session will follow the webinar. \nPlease register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/187467521. \nAbout the Presenters \n\nJohn Beard \n\nJohn Beard\, M.B.B.S.\, Ph.D.\, is an Australian physician who initially worked in primary health care\, including several years as medical officer for an Aboriginal Medical Service. From 1991 he held a wide range of senior public health and academic roles in Australia\, followed by three years as senior epidemiologist with the New York Academy of Medicine in the United States. In January 2009 he was appointed director of the new Department of Ageing and Life Course at the World Health Organization in Geneva\, Switzerland. Beard’s involvement in the health of older adults began during his time as a clinician. Later\, the public health group he led was responsible for developing Stay on Your Feet\, one of Australia’s first and largest community based programs to prevent falls in older adults. A core aspect of this program was an intensive evaluation that demonstrated that not only did the intervention reduce hospital admissions for falls\, but that it was extremely cost effective\, conservatively saving over $20 for every $1 invested. \n\n  \n\nLinda P. Fried \n\nLinda P. Fried\, M.D.\, M.P.H.\, is a leader in the fields of epidemiology and geriatrics. She has dedicated her career to the science of healthy aging\, particularly the prevention of frailty and disability\, and design of approaches that will strengthen the benefits to all of being an aging society. The latter includes the design of health-promoting activities and roles for older adults that solve major societal needs. Fried co-founded Experience Corps\, a community-based senior volunteer program designed to support the academic success of children while also serving as a health promotion program for older adults. Fried’s scientific career has defined the phenotype of frailty as a new clinical syndrome\, provided evidence as to its causes and identified opportunities for prevention. Her research has also identified approaches to prevent cardiovascular disease and the loss of independence with aging. Fried is the recipient of numerous honors and awards\, including the APHA Archstone Award\, the U.S. national Bridge Builders Award\, the Maxwell Pollock Award of the Gerontological Society of America\, and has been named a “Living Legend in Medicine” by the U.S. Congress. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine and of the Association of American Physicians where she serves on the governing council. She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council and Council on an Aging World and of the MacArthur Network on an Aging Society. \n\n  \n\nPaul Hogan \n\nPaul Hogan is the co-founder and chairman of Home Instead Senior Care\, the world’s leading in-home senior care company\, and has dedicated his career to shifting negative perceptions that are associated with aging. Established in 1994\, Home Instead identified and responded to an emerging worldwide need to provide affordable home care for the rapidly aging population. Home Instead’s model of privately paid non-medical home has established a new model of senior care and has become an integral component of the medical continuum. Hogan is also vice chairman of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Ageing\, and was a contributing author to the Council’s report\, Global Population Ageing: Peril or Promise. Hogan also is co-author of Stages of Senior Care (McGraw-Hill). \n  \n  \n\n\nLiz Seegert \n\nLiz Seegert is an independent journalist  who covers health\, policy and lifestyle topics. She is a senior fellow at the Center for Health\, Media & Policy (CHMP) at Hunter College in New York. Her work has appeared in New America Media\, The Atlantic online\,HealthCetera\, Home Care Technology Report\, Women Magazine\, Practical Diabetology\, Discovery Education\, Healthwise Magazine and other news outlets. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/global-aging-a-report-from-the-world-economic-forum-on-key-challenges-solutions-opportunities/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121204T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121204T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160316Z CREATED:20231103T153121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160316Z UID:25814-1354582800-1354582800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Adapting to an aging society: Challenges and opportunities DESCRIPTION:CoreTopics: Essential coverage areas for health journalists\n\nHealth Reform\nAging\nOral Health\nOther Topics\n\n\n \nClick here for a recording of the webcast and resources mentioned.\nWebcast explores aging adults’ contributions\, widening disparities\, creating ‘synthetic families’ \nToday\, Americans are living 30 years longer than their ancestors did just four generations ago. Yet policymakers have been slow to recognize the implications of this unprecedented increase in longevity. \nAs a result\, social institutions of all kinds – workplaces\, communities\, families\, educational organizations\, health care providers – haven’t yet adapted to the challenges and opportunities posed by America’s aging population. Nor is there any consensus over what successful adaptation might look like. \n\nAntonucci \nOlshansky \nZissimopoulos \n\nThe mission of the MacArthur Foundation Network on an Aging Society\, established in 2008\, is to articulate a framework that can guide effective responses to the aging of America and to promote policy options that help achieve this objective. \nIn this webcast\, on Dec. 4 at 4 p.m. ET\, three members of the MacArthur Network will discuss noteworthy trends and research in aging\, including a recent study on troubling disparities in life expectancy that was featured on the front page of The New York Times. Judith Graham\, AHCJ’s topic leader on aging\, will moderate. \nToni Antonucci is a research professor at the Life Course Development Program and the Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on social relations across the life span\, including multigenerational studies of the family and comparative studies of social relations across the life span in the United States\, Europe and Japan. \nS. Jay Olshansky is a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, as well as a research associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The focus of his research has been estimates of the upper limits to human longevity; the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging; forecasts of the size\, survival\, and age structure of the population; and the pursuit of the scientific means to retard aging in peoples. \nJulie M. Zissimopoulos is an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy at the University of Southern California. She is also the associate director of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. She specializes in the economics of aging. Topics of special interest are medical expenditures at older ages\, savings and wealth\, labor force behavior\, and financial and non-financial support between generations of family members. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/adapting-to-an-aging-society-challenges-and-opportunities/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121108T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121108T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160325Z CREATED:20231103T153007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160325Z UID:25808-1352336400-1352336400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:What does the election mean for senior health? DESCRIPTION:A recording of this webcast is available. Click here to view and listen to the webcast and get the presentations shown by Karen Davis and John Rother.\n\nWith the election results in\, we need to make sense of them for our readers\, viewers and listeners. \nThis AHCJ webcast will examine one big piece of the puzzle:  what this election’s outcome means for seniors on Medicare\, older adults who receive long-term care services from Medicaid and other programs that serve our elderly population. \nA blue ribbon panel of experts will offer their thoughts and analysis during this event.  Join us for a lively discussion and ask the questions that matter to you and your audience. The experts are: \n\n\nJoseph Antos\, Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy\, American Enterprise Institute \n\n\nKaren Davis\, president\, The Commonwealth Fund \n\n\nJohn Rother\, president and chief executive officer\, National Coalition on Health Care \n\n\nModerator: Judith Graham\, health care journalist and AHCJ topic leader on aging \n\n\nJoseph Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute\, a commissioner of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission and an adjunct professor at the School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Antos’ research focuses on the economics of health policy\, including Medicare reform\, health insurance regulation\, and the uninsured. He is the editor\, with Alice Rivlin\, of “Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge” (Brookings Institution Press\, 2007). Before joining AEI\, Antos was assistant director for health and human resources at the Congressional Budget Office\, and he held senior positions in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\, the Office of Management and Budget\, and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. \nKaren Davis\, president of The Commonwealth Fund\, is an economist with a career in public policy and research. Before joining the Fund\, she served as chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management at The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health\, where she also was a professor of economics. She served as deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Services from 1977–80. Prior to her government career\, Davis was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington\, D.C.\, a visiting lecturer at Harvard University\, and an assistant professor of economics at Rice University. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Rice University\, which recognized her achievements with a Distinguished Alumna Award in 1991. Davis is the recipient of the 2000 Baxter-Allegiance Foundation Prize for Health Services Research. In 2001\, she received an honorary doctorate in humane letters from John Hopkins University. In 2006\, she was selected for the AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award and the Picker Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Patient Centered Care. Davis has published books\, monographs\, and articles on health and social policy issues\, including “Health Care Cost Containment\, Medicare Policy\, National Health Insurance: Benefits\, Costs\, and Consequences” and “Health and the War on Poverty. “ \nJohn Rother is president and chief executive officer of the National Coalition on Health Care. The Coalition’s membership includes medical societies\, businesses\, unions\, health care providers\, faith-based associations\, pension and health funds\, insurers\, and groups representing consumers\, patients\, women\, minorities\, and persons with disabilities. Rother was the longtime executive vice president for policy\, strategy\, and international affairs at AARP. From 1981 to 1984\, Rother was staff director and chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging under Chairman John Heinz (R-PA). From 1977 to 1981 he served as special counsel for Labor and Health to U.S. Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY). Rother serves on several boards\, including the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation\, the National Quality Forum\, the Alliance for Health Reform\, the Pension Rights Center\, and Generations United. He also serves on the MacArthur Foundation’s Aging Society Network and the Institute of Medicine’s National Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Health Care. In 2010 Rother received the Robert Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance from the National Academy of Social Insurance. \n  \n  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/what-does-the-election-mean-for-senior-health/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR