BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Association of Health Care Journalists - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20060402T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20061029T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20080309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20081102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20090308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20091101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20100314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20101107T060000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121018T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121018T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160330Z CREATED:20231103T153005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160330Z UID:25805-1350522000-1350522000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:The state countdown: Fate of exchanges after the election DESCRIPTION:Recording of the webcast\nWe have posted a recording of the webcast for AHCJ members. You will need your AHCJ username and password to access the recording. \nIf you don’t know your username and/or password\, click here and enter your email address to get a one-click login key. \nCoverage of the webcast\n\n\nNational panel weighs in on future of health exchange in Missouri\, St. Louis Post-Dispatch \n\n\nArio: Subsidies at risk\, Politico \n\n\n\nJust days after the November elections\, states will have to make final (or reasonably final) decisions about whether they are going to run their own health insurance exchange and what that will look like – or whether the federal government will take responsibility for all or part of the exchange. \nStates also are grappling with decisions about the essential benefits packages\, and although there’s no deadline\, expect the pace of their Medicaid expansion decision making to pick up after elections. \nIf President Obama is re-elected\, states will probably pick up the pace of implementation. If Mitt Romney wins\, they will probably anticipate repeal – but what happens to all the preparatory work they’ve been doing for the past two years\, and will it contribute to new state-based solutions that Romney says he wants? We’ll talk to three experts who are doing hands-on work with both “red” and “blue” states. \nSpeakers:\n\n\nJoel Ario\, managing director\, Manatt Health Solutions \n\n\nCheryl Smith\, director\, Leavitt Partners \n\n\nHeather Howard\, lecturer in public affairs\, Princeton University; director\, State Health Reform Assistance Network \n\n\nModerator: Joanne Kenen\, AHCJ topic leader/health reform; deputy health care editor\, Politico Pro \n\n\n \nJoel Ario is a managing director of Manatt Health Solutions\, an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory practice of Manatt\, Phelps & Phillips\, LLP. He has more than 30 years of experience helping to shape and implement public policy\, including more than 15 years devoted to leading health insurance reform efforts at the state and federal government levels. Ario provides strategic consulting and policy analysis to assist state governments\, health plans and foundations in preparing for the implications of healthcare reform\, with a particular emphasis on implementing health insurance exchanges. He previously served as director of the Office of Health Insurance Exchanges at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)\, where he led efforts to implement provisions of President Obama’s health care reform initiative. He was the administration’s point person for standing up health insurance exchanges. Prior to his federal service\, Ario was Pennsylvania insurance commissioner. He served on the executive committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) for a decade and was elected three times to as an NAIC officer. He was also president of the National Insurance Producer Registry for two years and executive director of the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group for seven years. \nCheryl Smith is a director at Leavitt Partners\, where she helps guide the firm’s health insurance exchange practice. Smith worked in the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development as the director of the Utah Health Exchange office. There she played a central role in Utah’s Health Insurance Exchange\, one of only two functioning state health insurance exchanges in the country. Her leadership and expertise drew national attention as Utah’s health insurance exchange was recognized in the Washington Post\, The Boston Globe\, The Wall Street Journal\, Forbes.com\, and BusinessWeek.com. Smith was a Visiting Health Policy Fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington\, D.C. While at Heritage she focused her research\, analysis\, and writing on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)\, Medicare drug pricing\, and state health system reform. \nHeather Howard is a lecturer in public affairs at Princeton University and director of the State Health Reform Assistance Network\, a program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She served as the commissioner of health and senior services for New Jersey\, where 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\, for the Domestic Policy Council at the White House\, and for the Health Care Task Force within the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Justice Department. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/the-state-countdown-fate-of-exchanges-after-the-election/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120807T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120807T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160359Z CREATED:20231030T213347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160359Z UID:25597-1344301200-1344301200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:The status of health IT in your community DESCRIPTION:Farzad Mostashari \n\nClick here to to the archived webcast.\nAHCJ members had an exclusive on-the-record conversation with Farzad Mostashari\, M.D.\, (@Farzad_ONC) national coordinator for health information technology\, and other officials with the HHS Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. \nView and learn how to use an updated “Health IT Dashboard” to find local-level information for your stories. \nLearn how health information technology – electronic health records and other tools to collect and report health data – can be used to help patients and doctors better manage treatments and care in addition to better track health care trends. \nThe Health IT Dashboard provides information about where Federal Recovery Act dollars are being spent on health IT programs\, the percentage of doctors and hospitals adopting electronic health records\, and how many doctors and pharmacies are using electronic prescribing tools. \nThis is an AHCJ members-only opportunity to learn about health IT and its impact on providers and patients in their own communities. \nHOW TO PARTICIPATE\nGo to healthjournalism.org/hit for login instructions. You will need your AHCJ username and password; if you don’t remember them\, please call 573-884-5606. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/the-status-of-health-it-in-your-community/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120719T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120719T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160404Z CREATED:20231030T213347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160404Z UID:25596-1342659600-1342659600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Explanation of upgrades to CMS websites DESCRIPTION:Nursing home data\nMedicare’s Nursing Home Compare data\nNursing Home Compare uses data compiled from inspections and compares health and fire safety concerns as well as quality measures and staffing information. AHCJ has reduced key elements in Nursing Compare data into more manageable formats in Excel spreadsheets. \nInvestigate use of antipsychotics in nursing homes\nThe Boston Globe recently published a series examining overuse of antipsychotic drugs to sedate elderly nursing home residents\, based on never-before-released data on more than 15\,600 nursing homes in the United States\, obtained through a FOIA request from CMS. The Globe is making available to AHCJ members two sets of raw data so that members can do their own analyses of nursing homes in their areas. \nSpecial Focus Facility Initiative\nIn February\, CMS released the most recent list of nursing homes in its Special Focus Facility Initiative. These are homes that “(a) have had a history of serious quality issues and (b) are included in a special program to stimulate improvements in their quality of care.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript of the call\n\nPress release \n\n\nAudio of the call (the recording cuts off after 47 minutes) \n\n\nA replay is available by calling 855-859-2056 or 404-537-3406  and entering conference ID # 11438795. \n\n\nAccessing Medicare.gov’s Compare Tool Data\nIn addition to accessing Medicare.gov‘s Compare tools through our websites (Nursing Home Compare\, Hospital Compare\, Home Health Compare and Dialysis Facility Compare)\, there are other methods available to get and interact with our data. All of the data from the Medicare.gov Compare Tools are available at data.Medicare.gov for online access and reuse. In addition to viewing the data in your browser\, you can download the data in a variety of formats. More importantly\, you can also access the data through an Application Programming Interface\, or API\, which lets you interact in real time with the same data we use to power the Medicare.gov website. \nFor more information about the available APIs\, please visit dev.socrata.com. All data posted to data.medicare.gov are in the public domain and open for reuse. Please note that Medicare.gov does not endorse any third-party tools or resources built with our data. \nAlthough we do not yet have fully mobile-optimized versions of the Medicare.gov Compare Tools in place yet\, we are working toward this goal and will update this information as mobile-optimized enhancements come online. \n\nJoin AHCJ on Thursday\, July 19\, at 11:30 a.m. ET\, for an exclusive members-only conversation with officials from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about the rollout of major new additions to the Nursing Home Compare and Hospital Compare websites. You won’t want to miss this. \nMany of you are familiar with the Compare websites as sources for information about nursing home citations\, hospital patient satisfaction scores\, as well as mortality and readmission information. CMS has redesigned the sites and will be launching them on Thursday. \nFor you\, the most useful additional information will probably be the addition of actual narrative text of nursing home deficiency reports onto Nursing Home Compare. Those of you who have attended AHCJ conferences or read our tip sheets know how much veteran reporters value inspection reports (often known as 2567 forms) for what goes on behind-the-scenes at health facilities. The information goes beyond what data points reveal. For the first time\, CMS is going to put this information on the web for everyone to read. Previously\, you had to submit a FOIA for this information to CMS or you had to visit a nursing home and ask for them. \nIn addition\, CMS will be posting information about antipsychotic use at every nursing home in the country. The Boston Globe recently ran a series about the variability in use of these drugs across the country. [Read how that story was reported.] The data will help you localize the story to your community/state. \nFinally\, Hospital Compare will be updated to include new metrics on overuse of imaging services\, a topic in the news recently because of the potential for excess radiation. And some data on the Compare sites will be updated. \nTo join the discussion\nYou can test your browser in advance by clicking on this link. \nCall 877-415-5282 and enter conference ID # 11438795 at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday. There will also be a web component to follow along with the presentation. Click here and login as a guest to access that. \nA replay will be available after 12:30 pm ET on July 19 by calling 855-859-2056 or 404-537-3406  and entering conference ID # 11438795. \nThis discussion will include both an on-the-record component with CMS deputy chief medical officer Shari Ling and a background\, technical portion (not to be quoted) with CMS technical experts who can answer nuts-and-bolts questions. \nIf you have any questions\, please send them to charles.ornstein@propublica.org URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/explanation-of-upgrades-to-cms-websites/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120629T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120629T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160411Z CREATED:20231030T213346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160411Z UID:25595-1340931600-1340931600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: The Supreme Court has ruled. Now what? DESCRIPTION:Photo by functoruser via Flickr\nClick here to login and go to an archived version of this webcast.\nNow that the Supreme Court has issued a decision on health care reform\, how do you localize and cover it for your readers\, listeners and viewers? \nTo assist reporters across the country who will need to localize the decision and what it means for their states and local communities\, AHCJ will host a one-hour online roundtable of experts to offer you suggestions on stories you can pursue right away and in the weeks ahead. We will help you identify stories that make sense for you as a local or regional reporter. \nParticipants included: \n\n\nAlan Weil\, executive director\, National Academy for State Health Policy \n\n\n\nGovernor’s reactions to the court ruling. \n\n\n\nKevin Outterson\, associate professor of law and associate professor of health law\, bioethics and human rights\, Boston University \n\n\n\nAdditional Medicaid questions for the Red-state opt out \n\n\nBrief of amici curiae\, Health Law & Policy Scholars and Prescription Policy Scholars in support of respondents on the constitutional validity of the Medicaid expansion. \n\n\nBrief of Health Care For All\, Inc.\, Health Law Advocates\, Inc.\, The Massachusetts Hospital Association\, Inc.\, The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers\, Inc.\, Greater Boston Interfaith Organization\, Inc.\, and Community Catalyst\, Inc. as amici curiae in support of petitioners urging reversal on the minimum coverage provision issue. \n\n\n\nBruce Siegel\, M.D.\, M.P.H.\, president and chief executive officer\, National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems \n\n\n\nSiegel’s blog post about the ruling. \n\n\nResources from NAPH about the Affordable Care Act and the court ruling. \n\n\n\nModerator: AHCJ President Charles Ornstein\, a senior correspondent for ProPublica \n\n\nAdditional resources mentioned during the webcast:\n\n\nMedicaid Coverage and Spending in Health Reform: National and State”by”State Results for Adults at or Below 133% FPL\, Kaiser Family Foundation \n\n\nDownload a copy of the court’s opinion. (PDF) \n\n\nAHCJ is committed to helping you cover this milestone decision. And for many valuable tips and resources\, visit our health reform topic pages\, compiled by health reform topic leader Joanne Kenen. \nSome related items you will find on the health reform topic pages: \n\n\nResponses to the Supreme Court’s health reform decision \n\nA quick guide to covering the Supreme Court ruling on health reform\n\nThe Supreme Court’s health reform decision: What you need to know \n\n\nStill plenty to watch\, report on as Supreme Court considers health reform law \n\n\nWebinar: Implementing health reform in the states \n\n\nCovering state responses to Supreme Court decision on Affordable Care Act \n\n\nGet familiar with alternatives to ACA’s individual mandate \n\n\nSome stories written that quoted from the webinar: \n\n\nACA and the Medicaid Wrinkle\, ADVANCE Perspective: Nurses \n\n\nHealth care not changing for most Americans\, Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune \n\n\nMedicaid Decision Could Further Fragment Health Care\, Scientific American URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-the-supreme-court-has-ruled-now-what/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110913T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110913T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160621Z CREATED:20231030T213246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160621Z UID:25532-1315875600-1315875600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Hiding in plain sight: California hospital data DESCRIPTION:Does your local hospital place more cardiac stents than others? Do more of its patients leave the emergency room without being seen? Does it have a high level of C-section births? These questions and others are relatively easy to answer thanks to a data gold mine kept by the obscure California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. \nIt doesn't matter if your hospital is public\, nonprofit or for-profit\, data on its patients and services are available online. \nCharles Ornstein\, senior reporter at ProPublica and president of AHCJ's board of directors\, will guide you through using the data to answer those questions and more. \nThis webinar\, co-sponsored by the Association of Health Care Journalists and the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships\, will give you a step-by-step guide to using this information and leave you with story ideas to take home with you. It helps to have a working knowledge of Excel but all participants are welcome. \nWhile this webinar will focus on the use of data available in California\, many other states have similar data repositories. This will give all participants\, regardless of state\, a solid understanding of how to analyze data and what kinds of questions data can help you answer. \n\nLinks for the webinar\nTip sheet: Ornstein prepared this tip sheet for downloading and working with the data. \nWe suggest that you download the data that Ornstein will be demonstrating. To do so\, download the "2009 pivot table" from this site. You also should have this reporting form (PDF). Also download the full dataset for 2009. \nFor those new to using Excel\, this tip sheet may prove useful: Intro to investigating health data using spreadsheets. \nSources of hospital data in other states \nSome examples of stories that can be done using this data: \nHospital chain profits by admitting high number of ER patients: A hospital chain has transferred an unusually high number of patients from its emergency rooms to its hospital beds\, gaining hundreds of millions of dollars by targeting people with Medicare. \nAs Hospital System Expands\, Patient Advocates Worry: Analysts and patient advocates worry about the growing leverage a nonprofit hospital system has in negotiating rates paid by insurers\, employers and patients. \nBig Hospital Clout Dictates Premiums: Hospital prices in the Sacramento region are among the highest in California\, driven in large part by the negotiating clout of the hospital chain Sutter Health \nData analysis reveals wide variation in use of heart procedures: An analysis of data from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shows a wide variation in how often patients receive elective angioplasties and angiographies. \n\nThis webinar was held Sept. 13\, 2011. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/hiding-in-plain-sight-california-hospital-data/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091207T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091207T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T161050Z CREATED:20231030T213038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T161050Z UID:25394-1260147600-1260147600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Talking Health: What's ahead for Medicare DESCRIPTION:Past episodes of Talking Health \nCovering the Underinsured (July 2008) \nPolitical Promises (Nov. 2008) \nHealth Insurance (May 1\, 2009) \nHealth reform coverage: The key issues (Sept. 2009) \n\nPress release: New webcast series for health journalists debuts July 9 \n\nClick here for the recording of this event. \nWhat do current Medicare beneficiaries think of the program? What do they like and don't like? How would they change their coverage if they could? Experts will explore the high out-of-pocket costs some beneficiaries still must still pay and whether they have too many choices for supplemental and drug coverage. What are the prospects for preventive care services that many beneficiaries say they want? Experts will also look at the long-term prospects for Medicare. \nOur panel of experts and journalists will discuss these issues and more with an eye toward what journalists need to know to best inform their readers and viewers. \nThe speakers \nMichelle Andrews is a New York-based freelance writer who writes about health care for The New York Times\, CBS MoneyWatch.com and Money. She has been a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report and SmartMoney magazine. \nTrudy Lieberman is the director of the health and medicine reporting program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She is a contributing editor for Columbia Journalism Review\, a contributor to The Nation and the author of several books. She has won numerous awards for her reporting including two National Magazine Awards. She also was a Fulbright Scholar to Japan and a John J. McCloy fellow to Germany to study health care in those countries. She is the immediate past president of the AHCJ board of directors.   \nJohn Rother is the executive vice president of policy and strategy for AARP.  Prior to coming to AARP in 1984\, Rother served eight years with the U.S. Senate as special counsel for labor and health to former Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.)\, then as staff director and chief counsel for the Special Committee on Aging under its chairman\, Sen. John Heinz (R-Pa.). He serves on several boards and commissions\, including as the chair of Generations United\, and vice-chair of the National Quality Forum.  He also serves on the boards of Pension Rights Center\, the Alliance for Healthcare Reform and advisory Boards to Kaiser Permanente\, Google and several Congressional fellowships. Rother is an honors graduate of Oberlin College and the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Law. \n \nBruce Vladeck\, Ph.D.\, is senior adviser to Nexera\, Inc.\, a consulting subsidiary of the Greater New York Hospital Association. He was administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration from 1993 through 1997\, a period marked by widespread changes to Medicaid programs. His work at HCFA was recognized in 1995 by a National Public Service Award. He remained closely involved in Medicare policy in 1998-99 as a presidential appointee to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. After leaving HCFA\, Vladeck spent six years at Mount Sinai Medical Center\, as professor of health policy and geriatrics and senior vice president for policy of the medical center. Vladeck joined Ernst & Young's Health Sciences Advisory Services in 2004. He left that position for 16 months in 2006-07 to serve as interim president of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey after it entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. attorney. Vladeck is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the New York Academy of Medicine\, and serves on the boards of the Medicare Rights Center and the March of Dimes and on the New York City Board of Health. \n \n \n \n  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/talking-health-whats-ahead-for-medicare/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090909T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090909T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T163151Z CREATED:20231030T213009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T163151Z UID:25368-1252458000-1252458000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health reform coverage: The key issues DESCRIPTION:A webinar for journalists\n \nResources from the webinar\n\nWatch this webinar\nLessons from Massachusetts\, from Kay Lazar of The Boston Globe \nRobert Laszewski's PowerPoint presentation \nTrudy Lieberman's PowerPoint presentation \n\nThere's little question that health reform has dominated the news this summer\, but is the coverage tackling the right issues? Join us for a "Talking Health" webinar\, presented by the Association of Health Care Journalists\, The Commonwealth Fund\, and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism\, to find out what top journalists think of the coverage of this complicated policy debate. \nThe webinar will be held on Wednesday\, Sept. 9\, at 2 p.m. eastern time. \nJoin moderator Mike Hoyt\, editor of the Columbia Journalism Review\, as he directs your questions to panelists Kay Lazar of The Boston Globe\, Karen Tumulty of TIME\, Robert Laszewski of Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review and Trudy Lieberman\, contributing editor for CJR and AHCJ board president. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-reform-coverage-the-key-issues/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160703Z CREATED:20231025T150259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160703Z UID:23644-1241139600-1241139600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Talking Health: Insurance DESCRIPTION:Health reform is picking up steam in Congress. A major flash point in the coming debate is whether employers and individuals should be able to obtain health insurance through a public plan that is similar to Medicare\, as well as private insurance from commercial carriers. \nThis Talking Health program – from May 1\, 2009 – featured two experts: Cathy Schoen\, senior vice president for research and evaluation at The Commonwealth Fund\, and Bruce M. Bullen\, chief operating officer of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. They offered their judgments on what we can expect. Our two journalist experts\, Noam Levey\, a reporter at the Los Angeles Times; and Ceci Connolly\, a staff writer at The Washington Post; provided their insights and suggestions for covering what will be a major story in the coming months. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/talking-health-insurance/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081121T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081121T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160749Z CREATED:20231025T150059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160749Z UID:23554-1227229200-1227229200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Talking Health: Political Promises DESCRIPTION: \n\nTake part!\nThe speakers will answer questions submitted before and during the webcast. Send your questions to talkinghealth@healthjournalism.org. \nAt noon Eastern on Nov. 21\, visit www.healthjournalism.org/talkinghealth to watch the live webcast and submit questions. \n\nHealth care plan highlights \n• Barack Obama (D) \nTip sheet: Resources for covering the candidates' health care plans \n\n \nPress release: New webcast series for health journalists debuts July 9 \nPast episode of Talking HealthCovering the Underinsured (July 2008) \n\nObama presidency: Does his health plan stand a chance?\n What lies ahead for health reform? The candidates made lots of promises during the campaign and now the time has come to deliver on them. Will the new president really be able to bring insurance coverage to more Americans given the country's other financial problems and the growing deficit? Will we again fall back on an incremental approach? \nTalking Health on Nov. 21\, 2008\, featured two experts who have been following the politics of health reform for a long time: Karen Davis\, president of The Commonwealth Fund\, and Sheila P. Burke\, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard University. They offered their judgments on what we can expect. Our two journalist panelists Julie Rovner\, health policy correspondent for NPR\, and Marilyn Werber Serafini\, health care and welfare reporter for National Journal\, gave suggestions for covering the story for the next year both nationally and locally. \nRead more about the speakers and watch "Talking Health: Political Promises." \nSpeakers:\nSheila P. Burke is an adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard University. Having received her master's degree in public administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1982\, she returned in 1996 to serve as executive dean through June 2000. In between she was chief of staff to former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (1985 to 1996). She was deputy staff director of the Senate Committee on Finance (1982 to 1985)\, having been a professional staff member of the committee from 1979 to 1982. Burke holds a bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of San Francisco and worked as a staff nurse in Berkeley\, Calif. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine\, National Academy of Sciences\, and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. She serves on the adjunct faculty at Georgetown University\, on the boards of trustees of the Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid and the Uninsured\, and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission\, as chair of the Kaiser Family Foundation\, and on a number of corporate boards. \nKaren Davis is president of The Commonwealth Fund\, a private foundation that aims to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access\, improved quality\, and greater efficiency\, particularly for society's most vulnerable\, including low-income people\, the uninsured\, minority Americans\, young children\, and elderly adults. Davis is a nationally recognized economist\, with a distinguished 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 held an appointment as professor of economics. She served as deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Services from 1977-1980\, and was the first woman to head a U.S. Public Health Service agency. 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. A native of Oklahoma\, she received her Ph.D. in economics from Rice University\, which recognized her achievements with a Distinguished Alumna Award in 1991. \nTrudy Lieberman is the director of the health and medicine reporting program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She is a contributing editor for Columbia Journalism Review\, a contributor to The Nation and the author of several books. She has won numerous awards for her reporting including two National Magazine Awards. She also was a Fulbright Scholar to Japan and a John J. McCloy fellow to Germany to study health care in those countries. She is president of the AHCJ board of directors. \nJulie Rovner is a health policy correspondent for NPR\, specializing in the politics of health care. She is also a contributing editor for National Journal's CongressDaily. In 2005\, she was awarded the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting of Congress for her coverage of the passage of the 2003 Medicare prescription drug bill and its aftermath. Rovner has appeared on The NewsHour\, CNN\, C-Span\, MSNBC\, and NOW with Bill Moyers. Her articles have appeared in dozens of national newspapers and magazines\, including The Washington Post\, USA Today\, Modern Maturity and The Saturday Evening Post. A noted expert on health policy issues\, Rovner is the author of a critically-praised reference book\, "Health Care Politics and Policy A-Z." Its third edition was published by CQ Press in September 2008. Rovner is co-author of the book Managed Care Strategies 1997\, and has contributed to several other books\, including two chapters in 1995's "Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy\," edited by political scientists Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann. Previously\, Rovner covered health and human services for the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report\, specializing in health care financing\, abortion\, welfare and disability issues. Later\, she covered health reform for the Medical News Network\, an interactive daily television news service for physicians\, and provided analysis and commentary on the health reform debates in Congress for NPR. She has been a regular contributor to the British medical journal The Lancet\, and her columns on patients' rights for Business and Health won her a share of the 1999 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award. \nMarilyn Werber Serafini has been the health care and welfare reporter for National Journal since 1995\, and has won awards for articles on these subjects. The most recent was an award from the Association of Health Care Journalists for an article comparing and analyzing the 2008 presidential candidates' health care proposals. She also won an  award from the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families for an article that scrutinized President Bush's controversial proposal to give states money to encourage marriage and discourage divorce. She has written extensively about Medicare policy\, the uninsured and bioterrorism. Serafini has covered Congress since 1985\, writing about health care\, welfare\, trade\, tax and budget policy. She served two terms as a member of the executive committee of the congressional periodical galleries. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland and of American University\, where she received an M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/talking-health-political-promises/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080822T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080822T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160702Z CREATED:20231025T150032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160702Z UID:23521-1219366800-1219366800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Covering Health in a Multicultural Society Online Training DESCRIPTION:  \nThis interactive course is a resource for understanding the increasing diversity of the audiences AHCJ members serve. The e-class is the online companion to the book “Covering Health in a Multicultural Society: A Resource Guide for Journalists.” The book is available to all members of the Association of Health Care Journalists and can be downloaded as a PDF from our Web site. \nThe e-class offers a summary of each chapter of the book; a special feature called Thinking Points\, where health care journalists can trade ideas and comments; plus links to special Tips and Traps\, Story Ideas and Web Links; and\, finally\, self-tests covering each chapter to reinforce the lessons shared. \nThe book authors said it succinctly: The very definition of the word “multicultural” evolves almost daily in a country as ethnically and culturally rich as the United States\, so the goal was to use the most comprehensive interpretation of the term. The primary focus of the e-class and book is African Americans\, Hispanics\, Native Americans\, Asians and Pacific Islanders living in the United States. Because lifestyle and life circumstances also play a role in the health status of individuals and the care they receive\, we also have included information on how sexual orientation and legal status affect health. \nThe e-class and book were supported by a grant from The California Endowment. Primarily derived from the book\, the content for this course was developed by Jeff Porter\, special projects director for AHCJ\, and Robin Reuben\, a former graduate research assistant for AHCJ. Technical development was supplied by the University of Missouri Center for Distance and Independent Study. \n\nFor this course you will need:\n\nPC users use Internet Explorer or Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox\nMac users use Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox or Safari\nInternet connection\n\nHow to get started:\nYou have two choices. Both require AHCJ membership (Need to join?) \n\nLog in as a guest\, allowing you to read most of the material but does not allow you to take part in forums or short quizzes.\nTo enroll\, which allows you to receive a certificate of completion\, post to forums\, self-test yourself and save your work\, e-mail multicultural@healthjournalism.org with your name and contact information. You should receive log-in information within two business days. If you’ve already received the log-in\, you can follow this link to the course and click on the “Login” button.\n\nProceed to course log-in. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/covering-health-in-a-multicultural-society-online-training/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080709T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080709T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160711Z CREATED:20231025T145946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160711Z UID:23493-1215565200-1215565200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Talking Health: Covering the Underinsured DESCRIPTION:AHCJ\, The Commonwealth Fund\, and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism will present Talking Health\, a webcast for members that will explore the growing problem of the underinsured – those who have insurance but are still at risk for substantial out-of-pocket expenses. \nThe archived webcast is available. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/talking-health-covering-the-underinsured/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071012T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071013T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150823Z CREATED:20231025T145823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150823Z UID:23421-1192150800-1192237200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Presentations from Urban Health Journalism Workshop 2007 DESCRIPTION:Get MP3 and Flash presentations from the 2007 Urban Health Journalism Workshop. Topics include the health issues of children\, seniors and immigrants in urban settings\, as well as obesity\, mental health\, disaster preparedness and the mapping of local health data. \nTopics: \n\n\nKeynote speech by Mary T. Bassett\, M.D.\, M.P.H.\, deputy commissioner for the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. \n\n\nWhy is urban health different? \n\n\nComing to grips with the obesity-linked diabetes epidemic \n\n\nTelling the stories of our aging population \n\n\nCovering children's access to care \n\n\nHow prepared is your city for health disasters? \n\n\nTackling mental health issues in your city \n\n\nOvercoming cultural barriers in your coverage \n\n\nMapping health data for local stories \n\n\n  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/presentations-from-urban-health-journalism-workshop-2007/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR