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,Health Day will be at the core of the symposium, with sessions on how to use health data to make planning decisions, how to use parks and transportation to improve health, and ways that planning can promote health equity. The American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting will cover comprehensive updates on the latest advances in common neurological conditions. This event will feature panels on the theme of “Incarceration-Its Consequences, Costs and Alternatives” with former offenders, leading experts in public policy, economics and social science, and community organizers. |
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This will be an event exclusively for AHCJ members so you will need your username and password for the website. If you don’t have that information, please reset your password using the one-click login option or contact info@healthjournalism.org. |
5 events,With more than 1,000 delegates from over 60 countries, this is one of the world’s largest and influential conferences on dementia. It is offered for both professionals in the field of Alzheimer’s and individuals living with the disease. Submissions for NLGJA’s awards are due May 1. Enter your work for the Al Neuharth Award for Innovation in Investigative Journalism or for the Excellence in Journalism Awards. The Brookings Institution will host a forum and release three new papers focusing on crime and incarceration in the United States. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin will deliver opening remarks, and Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) will join the forum to discuss the Smarter Sentencing Act of 2014, which was recently passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee with bi-partisan support. |
3 events,Members of the House of Representatives are slated to address hospital leaders at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting. |
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3 events,This annual event is designed to keep employee benefit specialists abreast of the latest regulatory changes affecting the benefits industry and what lies ahead. |
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From debates over preventive screenings to wasteful use of high-cost imaging or emergency care, the pressure is on to rein in unnecessary, redundant or ineffective care. We’ll examine one effort, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s Choosing Wisely initiative. So far, more than 50 medical societies have offered up more than 200 tests, treatments and other interventions that “physicians and patients should question.” |
7 events,The conference is a part of the ESRC/NIH funded US-UK Comparison of Discrimination & Disparities in Health & Health Service Use study and will feature Dr. David Williams as the keynote speaker. This symposium serves as a platform for the exchange of best practices, knowledge and resources regarding the prevention of tobacco use and other addictive substances within minority communities. The The National Health Insurance Exchange Summit will take place May 14-16 in Washington, D.C. The conference will explore the relationship between heritage and three interrelated aspects of sustainability and wellbeing.
The 11th Annual SAS Health Analytics Executive Conference will be streamed live online and include a keynote presentation at 8:15 a.m. by Farzad Mostashari, MD, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and the former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS.
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9 events,This multidisciplinary conference features the latest information on clinical care, aging research, and innovative models of care delivery. This is a great opportunity for geriatrics professionals to update their knowledge and skills through state-of-the-art educational sessions and research presentations.
This will be an event exclusively for AHCJ members so you will need your username and password for the website. If you don’t have that information, please reset your password using the one-click login option or contact info@healthjournalism.org. Researchers will release a new analysis from the West Health Policy Center that estimates that more price transparency in health care could be a source of more than $100 billion in savings over 10 years. This is the 74th policy forum held by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute, and will feature several panels of nationally recognized experts. |
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2 events,The clinical and economic virtues of provider consolidation have long been recognized by policy experts, but in recent years, research has shown that large provider organizations may use market power to obtain relatively high prices from payers without necessarily delivering superior quality. Health Affairs will release a package of “Web First” papers examining the issue from both sides.
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2 events,Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) will host this half-day webinar on price transparency. This event is free to the media. Journalists can register for the event here. May 20, online webinar, 11 a.m.-3:15 p.m. EDT. |
2 events,The Atlanta chapter of AHCJ is having a gathering May 21 to hear Michael Eriksen, dean of the School of Public Health at Georgia State University, speak about e-cigarettes. |
2 events,Ezekiel J. Emanuel is a knowledgeable, forthright, and morally engaged guide to the American health care system. A doctor, a bioethicist, a former advisor to the Obama administration, and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Emanuel has spent a generation writing, thinking, and advocating on health care reform. |
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2 events,The National Institute for Health Care Management will host this free webinar about how employers and health plan designers can encourage consumers to consider cost and quality when choosing health care providers. |
2 events,More than 100,000 older adults will participate in activities at more than 1,000 locations throughout the U.S. during the 21st annual National Senior Health & Fitness Day. The common goal for this day is to help keep older Americans healthy and fit. |
2 events,Health Datapalooza is a national conference focused on health data, bringing together companies, startups, academics, government agencies and individuals with the newest and most innovative and effective uses of health data to improve patient outcomes. |
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