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 IOM will hold a workshop to explore the benefits of and barriers to sex-specific reporting of scientific data. |
2 events,On Wednesday, August 31, 2011, CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics will release a new report entitled “Consumption of Sugar Drinks in the United States, 2005-2008” featuring data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. |
3 events,The IOM will host a public meeting on to discuss the HHS Twelve Cities and Enhanced Comprehensive HIV Prevention Plan Projects, which aim to reduce HIV infection rates, link people to care and treatment, reduce HIV-related health disparities, and achieve a more coordinated national response to HIV. The United States Cochrane Center is providing free registration for this online class on understanding evidence-based health care. |
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3 events,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. It doesn't matter if your hospital is public, nonprofit or for-profit, data on its patients and services are available online. Charles 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. Meet some fellow D.C. area health writers, learn what’s going on at AHCJ and meet some of the HHS media team you may only know through email and conference calls. Some of the newest members of the HHS team will be there including Erin Shields from HHS, Brian Cook from CMS and Nick Papas, White House health reform spokesman. |
3 events,This 48th annual meeting is a practical conference on reproductive health for a range of professionals (students and researchers also welcome): physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, midwives, pharmacists and public health advocates working in reproductive and sexual health. The IOM’s Food Forum will host a public meeting on to examine how systematic, evidence-based reviews in the field of nutrition are used to develop policy recommendations that improve public health. |
3 events,Philadelphia-area AHCJ chapter members will meet with top HHS public affairs officials to discuss issues related to accessing information and experts working for federal agencies under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Richard Sorian, HHS assistant secretary for public affairs, and deputy assistant secretary Dori Salcido will explain the workings of the HHS public affairs office and discuss concerns about access to federal information. |
2 events,This free conference covers innovative approaches to solving safety, quality, and access issues. |
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3 events,The conference features some of the nation’s leading authorities on health care who will address tort reform, insurance company profits, unsustainable medical costs, new models of healthcare delivery, transparency, regulatory issues, and how the new legislation will affect businesses. September 23 is National Falls Prevention Awareness Day. Join the National Council of Aging the day before to learn about the latest program resources and best practices for educating older adults and their families about falls and how senior-oriented facilities can reduce their risk of falling. |
2 events,This webinar will discuss the effect biotech drugs have on health care in a webinar sponsored by the National Press Foundation. Biosimilars are a type of biological product (meaning they are made from living organisms) that the FDA has licensed because they are similar to another FDA-approved biological product. |
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