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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Fellowships are available to journalists in several states, as well as those who cover rural areas, those who work in the ethnic media and even for journalists who don’t cover health but understand the need to cover health angles on other beats. Fellowship applications must be received by Feb. 27. |
2 events,A look at the role of essential benefits in improving care, governors’ perspectives on essential health benefits, the HHS bulletin’s implications for states, ensuring patient access to innovations in care and how the benchmark approach to essential benefits should be evaluated against the long-term goal of ensuring a minimum level of quality coverage for patients nationwide. |
3 events,To help understand and reduce persistent health disparities, the health reform law requires, beginning in March 2012, any ongoing or new federal health program to collect and report racial, ethnic, and language data. This briefing will help you better answer questions for your readers, viewers and listeners about many of the key decisions implementing health reform that are left to the states. |
2 events,The AAAAI Annual Meeting draws the allergy/immunology specialty’s academic and clinical leaders to showcase new research and discuss other developments in allergy, asthma and immunologic diseases. The meeting is attended by more than 7,700 allergist/immunologists, related physicians, allied health professionals and industry representatives. |
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3 events,This AHCJ Washington, D.C., chapter event will feature conversations on health reform with representatives of some of the major national hospital advocacy organizations. |
3 events,This webinar, for the AHCJ Regional Health Journalism Program fellows, featured Richard Serino, deputy administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency |
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2 events,The discovery of a counterfeit version of the cancer drug Avastin in the U.S. market is the latest illustration of the global problem of falsified and substandard pharmaceutical products. The Institute of Medicine is holding an information-gathering meeting for a new study of the global implications of counterfeit drugs that will explore topics ranging from drug detection technologies to health and trade dimensions. |
3 events,The annual meeting of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine will explore what is known, highlight innovative programs and research, and develop strategies for improving the safety net in our own communities. The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System will release the first scorecard measuring how 306 local areas in the U.S. are doing on key indicators of health system performance, such as rates of insurance coverage, delivery of preventive care, and potentially preventable deaths before age 75. |
3 events,The world’s largest dermatologic education event highlights more than 850 faculty members and 400 sessions. Among a roster of well-known dermatological speakers is Bill Walton, one of the NBA’s 50 all-time greatest players, who will serve as a guest speaker. |
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2 events,The Association of Health Care Journalists is forming a Boston-area chapter, and health journalists from the region are invited to the inaugural meeting, featuring Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, who has performed four face transplants at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. |
3 events,This conference of interventional radiologists and affiliated scientists will be held at the Mascone Center in San Francisco this March. More than 5,000 physicians, researchers and health professionals are expected to attend. Presentations will cover the latest trends in interventional radiology research. The American College of Cardiology will host its 61st annual conference from March 24-27, 2012, in Chicago. This year’s program features lectures by the Legends of Cardiovascular Medicine, highlights new scientific breakthroughs and encourages attendees use topic-specific “learning pathways,” customized program modules that guide you through sessions that are relevant to your areas of interest. |
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5 events,Medical-legal partnership practitioners and other leaders in the health care and legal communities will explore themes including quality of care, transforming health and legal practices and new innovations in medical-legal partnerships. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments challenging congressional authority to mandate health insurance coverage and other provisions of the Affordable Care Act. |
6 events,This webinar will bring you up to date on what’s happening in the states with implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. By watching, you will be better able to answer questions on this topic for readers, viewers and listeners. |
4 events,The 2012 annual conference of the American Society on Aging will examine the future of entitlement programs, health reform, and the Older Americans Act, among many other subjects. |
2 events,Today’s science writers have to understand and communicate advances in science and technology. These topics are not only complex and important – they frequently raise potential or immediate ethical concerns for individuals, institutions, families, and society. Bioethics Bootcamp has been designed specifically for science reporters and editors, other professional science writers, public information officers, journalism students, and concerned physicians and scientists to provide an in-depth look at the intricate, expanding bioethics spectrum. |
2 events,This AACR Annual Meeting 2012 happens on Saturday, March 31 through Wednesday, April 4, at McCormick Place in Chicago. This year’s theme is “Accelerating Science: Concept to Clinic,” which aims to link basic, clinical and translational research that is on the forefront of worldwide cancer initiatives. |
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