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 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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3 events,Join veteran business journalist John F. Wasik in a free, live chat at noon EDT April 6 at BusinessJournalism.org, and get your questions answered. Wasik has covered health care and personal finance for Bloomberg News and Consumers Digest magazine. During the hourlong chat, he will offer ideas and links, and you'll be able to pose questions to him and get answers in real time. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will deliver a speech entitled, "Health Reform and You: How the New Law Will Increase Your Health Security" at the National Press Club |
2 events,The Institute of Medicine is scheduled to publish an "updated assessment of potential links between veterans' health problems and deployment during the Persian Gulf War," a report which will consider PTSD and other mental health issues in Gulf War veterans. |
2 events,The HHS Office for Civil Rights and the NIST Computer Security Division will host the "Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security" conference which, according to the release, will "provide a forum to discuss the current HIT security landscape, as well as practical strategies, tips, and techniques for implementing the requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule." |
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3 events,More than 500 people joined us in the Windy City for a world-class program of panels, workshops, field trips and classes planned to improve journalists’ knowledge of today’s hot-button health issues. Attendees tell us they went home with story ideas, had the chance to meet sources, strengthened their reporting skills and attend breaking newsmaker events. There were plenty of opportunities to network with other journalists. Highlights• Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., professor, Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research Group, will be this year’s keynote speaker. Newsmaker briefings with Freelance PitchFest: Writers meet with editors and pitch story ideas A series of sessions to help you understand health reform and explain it to your audience. How-to sessions. The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health will host the 5th Annual International Bioethics Conference, titled "Priorities in Health: Can we make better decisions?" Panels will consider decisionmaking-related topics such as insurance, medicare and expensive cancer drugs. |
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2 events,The National Institutes of Health state of the science conference on "Preventing Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Decline" will be webcast live and archived for later viewing. |
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