The Private Healthcare Exchanges conference July 16-17 in Chicago will focus on how the Affordable Care Act is changing the way insurers sell health insurance.
42 events found.
Calendar
Events
Calendar of Events
|
Monday
|
Tuesday
|
Wednesday
|
Thursday
|
Friday
|
Saturday
|
Sunday
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 events,The CDC is holding its first conferences to address the obesity crisis in the United States. Weight of the Nation is designed to provide a forum to highlight progress in the prevention and control of obesity through policy and environmental strategies and highlight strategies that overcome barriers to the primary prevention of obesity for youth and adults in four settings: communities, medical care, schools, and workplaces. This three-hour event is open to all AHCJ members. It's planned as a fast-moving summary of the Fox Chase Cancer Center's highlights. Most presenters will speak for 15 minutes. The subjects will range from trends in personalized medicine and women's cancer to advances in radiation oncology and robotic surgery. Fox Chase maintains these researchers are all likely to make news in the next 12 months. |
3 events,The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization
|
3 events,The National Center for Health Statistics and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine are tentatively scheduled to release a report on the costs of complementary and alternative medicine and upon the popularity thereof. The Infectious Diseases Society of America's Lyme Disease Review Panel will meet to hear testimony regarding its 2006-vintage guidelines. Eighteen physicians, patients and scientists are scheduled to speak at the day-long event, which will be webcast live. |
||||
2 events,The federal Institutes of Medicine will host a public workshop to discuss and get data and insights related to an AHRQ report on vitamin D and calcium. |
2 events, |
|||||
2 events,Hebrew University researcher Isiah Arkin will present "Membranes, the flu and in between," a discussion of structural biology which will be webcast at 11 a.m. |
4 events,The 2009 international conference on mild traumatic brain injury will focus on six themes: sports concussions, diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation, combat injuries, motor vehicle accidents and litigation. The National Center for Health Statistics is expected to release a report on delayed childbearing. The report will indicate that more women are having their first child later in life, a trend that holds true for all locations and races in the United States and across all developed nations. |
|||||
3 events,The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center will webcast (and later podcast) a lecture addressing "The challenges of collaboration and team science: Everything you didn't learn in kindergarten" from noon to 1 p.m., Eastern time. The National Center for Health Statistics, part of the CDC, will release the latest death statistics for the United States. The data are from a new report, "Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2007." |
2 events,
Health Affairs is holding this special conference/briefing to look at the government's role in health reform, implications of slowing the rate of growth in Medicare spending, end of life care and more. Speakers will include former Surgeons General C. Everett Koop and Richard Carmona, Len Nichols of the New America Foundation, Gail Wilensky of Project HOPE, C. Eugene Steuerle of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Christine Cassell, M.D., of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Diane E. Meier, M.D., of the Center to Advance Palliative Care at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Jerald Winakur, M.D., of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. There will be a call-in number for those who cannot attend in person. |
|||||
3 events,The NIH State-of-the-Science Conference: Family history and improving health promises "pivotal discussions on the effectiveness of family history information for disease prediction and improvement of patient health outcomes." AHCJ sponsored 12 journalists to take part in a two-day workshop at the CDC about covering seasonal influenza and the A-H1N1 flu virus, now grabbing the headlines. The workshop includes a series of on-the-record sessions with CDC experts to prepare front-line journalists for the upcoming flu season. |
3 events, |
2 events,<!–br>Location: TBA<br–> At the SPJ ConventionWhile it's getting easier to check the quality of health care institutions, investigating the quality of health professionals still requires a lot of legwork. This session will focus on the use of public records, court documents and interviews to background the people to whom we trust with our care. Several investigative reporters who have done it well will be highlighted. |
||||
2 events,The National Center for Health Statistics, part of the CDC, is expected to release "Injury Episodes and Circumstances: National Health Interview Survey, 1997-2007," a report that seeks to answer the question "who gets injured and why?" |
2 events,The Alliance for Health Reform is sponsoring a briefing at the National Press Club addressing the obstacles that must be overcome or dealt with if the health care reform effort is to cross the finish line. |
Health journalism saves lives.
Everyone should have access to quality health care information so they can make informed decisions. Join AHCJ today for exclusive access to training and education to inform your community.