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2 events,Healthy Aging Month is an annual observance month designed to focus national attention on the positive aspects of growing older. The main objective is to encourage local-level Healthy Aging events that promote taking personal responsibility for one’s health. More than 5,500 ear, nose, and throat physicians and head and neck surgeons will gather to share the latest research and clinical advances from across all areas of the otolaryngology specialty. |
4 events,National Rural Health Association holds two back-to-back conferences in Kansas City, Mo. The first, its 14th Rural Health Clinic Conference Sept. 29 – Sept. 30, will look at telemedicine, veterans’ health and other issues. The second, Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, focuses on Critical Access Hospitals. This webinar, hosted by the American Dental Association Health Policy Institute, will examine findings of a new state-by-state analysis of dental care utilization in 2005 and 2013 among Medicaid and privately insured adults and children. |
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The trio of experts will also offer insights from recent data on those characteristics in residents ages 20 to 29, known as millennials, and how that group’s demographics is impacting the current and future U.S. population. Reporters will learn more about how to find the latest trends in U.S. demographics to spark larger discussions about demographics, millennial, race, marriage and population trends. Susan Heavey, AHCJ’s topic leader for social determinants of health care, will moderate the webcast. This event is exclusively for AHCJ members. |
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1 event,Th International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics will bring more than 7,000 obstetricians and gynecologists to Vancouver to address issues affecting women’s health and to discuss the key actions needed to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. |
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2 events,The National Conference on Tackling Tobacco Use in Vulnerable Populations will highlight the challenges, opportunities and strategies for addressing tobacco use among various vulnerable and high-risk populations, including people with mental illness, substance use problems, youth, pregnant women and mothers, people of low socioeconomic status, and lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender persons. |
4 events,PCORI’s first annual meeting will bring together more than 800 members of the PCORI community for a series of plenary and breakout sessions highlighting PCORI’s work as we mark our fifth anniversary. We expect many more to join us online. The University of Georgia’s College of Public Health holds its fourth annual State of Public Health conference in Athens, Ga.,… |
3 events,Senior investigative reporter Beth Daley of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting will host a live chat on the NECIR web site about the use of genetic tests for psychiatric disorders, a subject Daley and other NECIR journalists covered for The Boston Globe. |
3 events,The California Office of the Patient Advocate’s (OPA) will release the 2015-16 update of the California Health Care Quality Report Cards on October 8, 2015. The Report Cards detail how California’s commercial HMOs, PPOs, and over 200 medical groups rate on quality of clinical care as well as on patient experience and receive evidence-based star ratings on their overall performance and specific clinical and patient experience data. |
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2 events,The Policy Studies Organization at George Mason University sponsors the second annual Summit on Global Food Security and Health.
Medicaid in a time of Growth and Change: Findings from the Annual Kaiser 50-State Medicaid Budget Su
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The Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Association of Medicaid Directors hold a forum featuring Robin Rudowitz, associate director of KFF’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured; Vernon Smith, managing principal at Health Management Associates; Thomas Betlach, president of NAMD; Florida Deputy Secretary for Medicaid Justin Senior; and Colorado Medicaid Director Gretchen Hammer. |
2 events,Two health plan CEOs will explore their thoughts on how high drug prices impact both insurers and the overall health care system. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Susan Dentzer will moderate the discussion, which will include an interactive Q&A. To empower patients to make treatment decisions in line with their values, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) will introduce an infographic tool for evaluating treatment decisions — the NCCN Evidence Blocks — at a press conference at the start of the NCCN 10th Annual Congress: Hematologic Malignancies. Following opening remarks, a panel of physicians and patients will discuss the challenges and benefits presented by this new physician/patient dynamic in shared decision-making. |
1 event,The United Nations has designated Oct. 17 as an annual date to promote awareness of global poverty. |
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2 events,The National Institutes of Health is hosting a summit to explore how digital communication is being used by government agencies, clinicians, scientists, patients, and the public to share information on health and science. The Institutes of Medicine holds a daylong workshop on “Integrating Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Language Access Services.” Part of the IOM’s efforts to examine public health, the event will look at strategies to improve health literacy from a variety of angles, including insurers, doctors, patients’ families and more. |
1 event,As we approach the ACA’s third open enrollment, health insurance is still far from universal for some minority groups. One in five Hispanics were uninsured last year. And although coverage rates among African Americans have surged nationally, success has varied from state to state based on Medicaid expansion decisions and other factors. This HHS webinar will explore ways to increase coverage among minority populations and to improve understanding of how to use health insurance to access care. |
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In this short webcast, CDC personnel will demonstrate the tool and answer questions about how the data might be used. NOTE: This is exclusively for AHCJ members; you will need to be logged in. If you’re having trouble logging in, please email info@healthjournalism.org. Scott Harrington of University of Pennsylvania, Tom Miller of AEI, and Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute discuss what’s happened to the co-ops so far, and what’s likely in store. |
1 event,This Forum will explore the factors driving the high cost of new drugs. What policy changes, from the drug approval process to patent law, could change the equation? Are some of these drugs worth the cost? And what can be done to make sure that patients can afford the medications that they need? |
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1 event,Meet researchers and clinicians in rehabilitation medicine. Learn about the newest innovations and solutions to common rehabilitation issues that will impact millions of individuals in our country and across the globe. |
2 events,The Institute of Medicine holds a workshop to focus on cancer prevention and early detection in poorer areas and populations, including in the United States. First in a two-part series. |
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How’s Obamacare Medicaid expansion working out for enrollees, providers and states? Where the best data to examine Medicaid managed care organizations? How are states trying to control rising Medicaid costs? Where is Medicaid failing children? How is Medicaid keeping people out of nursing homes? These are just some of the topics our guests will address at this Washington, D.C., chapter event. |
2 events,The Institutes of Medicine holds a free, two-day workshop to discuss the challenges in the dietary needs of people aged 50 and older, especially those who are in more vulnerable situations. |
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Panels will cover the connections and disconnections of science and policy, clinical studies, research tools for evidence-based stories, reporting on scientific fraud, understanding and reporting on screening evidence, digging into statistics and how to use anecdotes and narratives while sticking to evidence. |
3 events,The Alliance for Health Reform and the Commonwealth Fund hold a 90-minute briefing in Washington to discuss the costs of mental health, substance abuse and other behavioral health issues. |
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Over 190 sessions exploring how to expand possibilities for aging. The 6,000 member organization and its partners include not-for-profit organizations representing the entire field of aging services, 39 state partners, hundreds of businesses, consumer groups, foundations and research partners. |
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The Association of Health Care Journalists’ Washington, D.C., Chapter invites you to “Brews and Views” — a gathering to learn how the Affordable Care Act can help small employers gain health coverage for their workers.
Urban Institute researchers will share their latest findings on shifting U.S. demographics and how the nation’s changing population is raising issues related to health. The group will provide their most recent analysis of people living in the United States and related social characteristics, looking at age, geography and other data, and discuss future research on contraception access.
Learn how to use evidence-based skills to evaluate and report on medical research sent out in press releases, published or presented at conferences.