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.
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2 events,The workforce specialists at Jobs for the Future are hosting a conference at which their staff and outside experts will consider the new health care workforce and workforce policy in health reform. |
3 events,Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration economist Robert L. Scharff, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), and food-safety experts will discuss in a telebriefing the Produce Safety Project's new report, "Health-Related Costs from Foodborne Illness in the United States" and the nation's food-safety oversight system. |
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3 events,The Indiana Hospital Association will bring together stakeholders from across the industry to help shed light on the obstacles to improving patient safety in Indiana. The summit will also seek to create a cooperative plan for overcoming them.
Data release: Health characteristics and challenges, American Indian and Alaska Native adult edition
Data release: Health characteristics and challenges, American Indian and Alaska Native adult edition
The National Center for Health Statistics is tentatively scheduled to release a report on the health characteristics of American Indian and Alaska Native adults, with a focus on the special challenges faced by those groups. |
3 events,The American Psychosomatic Society, which calls itself a "worldwide community of scholars and clinicians dedicated to the scientific understanding of the interaction of mind, brain, body and social context in promoting health and contributing to the pathogenesis, course and treatment of disease," will review the latest psychosomatic research at its 2010 scientific conference. The National Center for Health Statistics is expected to release a report on viral hepatitis in the U.S. According to the release, "This report includes trends and prevalence rates for hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis C, and it includes sociodemographic variables such as race, ethnicity, gender, place of birth and age." |
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Data release: Health behaviors (alcohol consumption, smoking, leisure) of American adults, 2005-2007
Data release: Health behaviors (alcohol consumption, smoking, leisure) of American adults, 2005-2007
The National Center for Health Statistics is expected to release a report on the health behaviors of American adults, based on data collected from 2005 to 2007. The behaviors quantified by the report will include "alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, leisure-time physical activity, body weight status, and sleep habits." |
2 events,The National Center for Health Statistics is tentatively scheduled to release a report on the use of electronic medical records by ambulatory care providers in 2007. |
3 events,The CDC and a number of epidemiology-focused organizations are hosting the Decennial International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections, a once-in-a-decade gathering in which experts will swap recommendations, review science and set policy for the next decade. For more information or to register, visit the conference website. New data will be released in the American Journal of Public Health showing significant health disparities among Asian American, Pacific Islander, Native Hawaiian, and Asian immigrant populations. It details serious health issues for these groups related to breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer and cervical and liver cancer. Members of AHCJ receive complimentary press access to the publication. |
3 events,The CDC's Division of Behavioral Surveillance will host the 27th Annual Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Conference, which will focus on data collection, data processing and innovation as applied to their chosen field. |
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3 events,The United States Food and Drug Administration is working with the National Science Foundation and other government agencies to present the 2010 Food Safety Education Conference, a four-day event aimed at educating the public about foodborne illness and safe food-handling behaviors. The National Center for Health Statistics is tentatively scheduled to release a report on the use of electronic medical records among office-based physicians in 2006. |
3 events,According to the National Center for Health Statistics, this release "presents the very latest information on health insurance coverage in the United States, examining data from the first three quarters of the 2009 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), and presents estimates from 1998 through 2007 for comparison." |
3 events,ProPublica reporters Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, who have investigated nursing boards and other state regulatory and licensing agencies, will be available on a conference call to discuss their techniques and answer questions on how to conduct a local investigation about state-licensed workers. |
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2 events,The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine's 2010 annual conference has a broad schedule planned, one which will hit upon high-interest topics in adolescent health, such as screening, sexual orientation and sexually transmitted diseases. Journalists may be particularly interested in the Friday session titled "Risky Business: Preventing Harmful Effects of "Old" Media and "New" Media." |
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