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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4 events,The Clinical Team Conference emphasizes the value of individual and team responsibilities in providing quality end-of-life care. An investigation in the current issue of Columbia Journalism Review finds that despite President Obama’s early promise to create an open government, the nation’s science reporters feel there has been little to no progress since Bush was in office. The National Press Club will host a panel of journalists and invited administration officials to critique what journalists and the government are (or aren’t) doing to change that. |
4 events,Journalists and journalism educators are invited to a Maynard Institute webinar on identifying and reporting on structural inequities in health and education. Reporters interested in going beyond everyday reporting on health and education will learn how to identify, research and analyze the far-reaching impacts of structural inequities. Journalists Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner will discuss different story approaches and provide resources and tools. |
3 events,The American Academy of Nursing’s Raise the Voice initiative will publicize a task force’s recommendations and how they require sensitive, but critical, public conversations regarding the need for advanced care planning and decision-making. |
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2 events,This meeting will represent a collaboration among academic researchers, clinical researchers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, regulatory and health agencies, patient organizations, payors and venture capital/private equity concerns to address the need for effective therapies for rare diseases. |
3 events,Journalists are invited to participate in a conference call with officials from the Health Resources and Services Administration about the future of the Public Use File of the National Practitioners Data Bank. Reporters have used that file for years to document lax oversight of disciplined doctors but HRSA has pulled the file offline. For background on the issue, please read our coverage. |
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3 events,This conference aims to foster an integrated health care agenda to improve health outcomes for women with disabilities bu promoting knowledge an information exchange among women with disabilities, their advocates, policymakers, educators, researchers and health care providers such as psychologists. Vaccination science, policy, and ethics will be the focus of a public symposium taking place as part of the Institute of Medicine’s 41st annual meeting. The event will feature keynote addresses by Anthony Lake, executive director, United Nations Children’s Fund, and Seth Berkley, chief executive officer, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. Sessions will explore vaccination’s history, ethical challenges, current science, and future hurdles, as well as the state of immunization practices and needs in African nations. |
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AHCJ has teamed up with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – with the support of the CDC Foundation – for this national fellowship program for journalists. Ten fellows will be chosen to spend a week studying public health issues at two CDC campuses. The AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows will:
The fellowship includes membership, travel within the United States, lodging and stipend. The fellowship dates are Dec. 4-8, 2011.
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2 events,American Medical Informatics Association’s Annual Symposium, the world’s most comprehensive annual meeting on biomedical and health informatics will feature leading scientists and business professionals, as well as educational workshops and an exhibition hall. |
3 events,The theme this year is “The surgeon as a leader: Addressing health care disparities.” There will be sessions will address quality and outcomes, timely health policy topics, supporting surgical practice in a changing health care environment and a special focus on education and training to improve quality and promote patient safety.
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Roberta Baskin and Don White from HHS OIG Public Affairs staff will be on hand. The event will wrap up by 7:45 p.m. but all are invited after for food and drink at the nearby Laughing Man Tavern. |
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2 events,This is the oldest and largest gathering of public health professionals in the world. More than 13,000 physicians, nurses, educators, researchers and related health specialists gather to address health science, policy and practice issues. 2011’s theme is “healthy communities promote healthy minds & bodies.” |
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3 events,The National Cancer Policy Forum will host a workshop to examine the role of obesity in cancer survival and recurrence, potential interventions, and gaps in current knowledge. |
3 events,The inaugural conference of the Research Center on the Prevention of Financial Fraud will feature interdisciplinary research about financial fraud and connect financial fraud researchers with prevention and detection professionals. This may be of interest to health care reporters who are covering business issues and, particularly, health-related fraud. The FDA faces substantial challenges as it seeks to satisfy the expectation of the public for safe food and safe and effective medical products. These challenges include the wide array and virtually infinite number of products for which FDA has regulatory responsibility and the finite resources available to monitor them. The agency’s former chief counsel will discuss regulatory problem solving, focusing on the “why” and “how” of product regulation. |
The Association of Health Care Journalists has teamed up with the National Library of Medicine to present the AHCJ-NLM Fellowships. AHCJ will select four journalists to spend a week on the campus of the National Institutes of Health.
Come meet fellow D.C. area health writers, editors and broadcasters, learn about how you can find stories at HHS OIG about health providers, Medicare fraud and learn about some new online OIG resources and potential news stories coming up in the next few months.
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