This year’s theme is Integrated Geriatric Mental Health Care Through Innovation.
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1 event,Gathering of nursing professionals focused on enhancing the role of informatics in patient care and the practice environment. |
3 events,This event draws top journalists, academics and advocates to explore how we have gotten to historically low levels of trust in news media and how we can ensure a free, courageous and responsible press in times of extreme partisanship. The conference is free and open to the public.
Whether you are taking part in this year’s PitchFest at Health Journalism 2017 or simply looking to improve your approach with other editors, this 60-minute webinar will help elevate your pitch to a story package that screams, “Commission this now!” You’ll learn how to avoid common pitching blunders, and how to best communicate your ideas. Note: This webcast is for AHCJ members, so you will need to have your login and password to participate. If you don’t have that, please visit this page and enter your email address to have an access key sent to you. |
1 event,The American Health Lawyers Association and the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law are having a conference discussing emerging legal challenges of transitioning the practice of health care to the Precision Medicine Initiative model. |
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3 events,About 5,000 people are expected to attend NatCon17 in Seattle, April 3-5, at the Washington State Convention Center. This year’s theme is “The Intersection of Innovation and Action.” This event will bring together national experts, local community leaders, city residents, and faculty and students from Baltimore colleges and universities to examine a pressing topic related to the root causes of health. This year’s conference at Johns Hopkins University’s Baltimore campus will focus on vulnerable youth. |
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What are the problems that persist in the health system, especially in the individual insurance market? What are the policy options to address them, through executive action, agency rulemaking, and legislation? |
3 events,This year’s Medical-Legal Partnership Summit, headlined by keynote speaker Dr. Jeff Brenner from the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, will host leaders and practitioners from the public and private sectors for a national conversation about how to integrate health and legal services to better address the social determinants of health.
Online and social media platforms provide journalists with new ways of telling stories beyond the printed word. But journalists don’t have to invest in high priced professional video cameras or audio equipment to tell a multimedia story. Note: This webcast is for AHCJ members, so you will need to have your login and password to participate. If you don’t have that, please visit this page and enter your email address to have an access key sent to you. |
2 events,The Kaiser Family Foundation will host a web briefing for the media to explain how the cost-sharing reduction program works, where it stands now, and how consumers could be affected by either choice from the federal government. There will be new analysis presented on the magnitude of the cost-sharing payments and how much premiums would have to rise in different states to compensate for insurers’ loss of federal funding. |
3 events,Many diseases do not have a proven means of prevention or effective treatments. President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) announced in January 2015 hopes to remedy that by finding new treatments using the PMI medical model that proposes a customization of healthcare, with medical decisions, practices, and/or products being tailored to the individual patient’s genetic makeup and other patient-specific factors. This conference discusses the emerging legal challenges of transitioning the practice of health care to the PMI model. The Summit is aimed at evaluating the role of genomics, social and environmental determinants, ”‹and d”‹ata ”‹science ”‹on health disparities ”‹research. |
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1 event,National Rural Health Assn. hosts the nation’s largest rural health conference. |
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3 events,The Consumer Federation of America hosts its 40th Annual National Food Policy Conference to address food-related issues facing consumers, industry and government. Fostering Integrity in Research, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, examines challenges to scientific integrity facing the research enterprise and recommends steps that individual scientists, research institutions, research sponsors, journal publishers, and professional societies should take to meet these challenges and better protect integrity in research. |
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2 events,Practitioners, leaders, and experts around the world come together and share their knowledge about issues in patient safety and to share best practices. Practitioners, leaders, and experts around the world come together and share their knowledge about issues in patient safety and to share best practices. |
3 events,Latest information on clinical care, research on aging, and innovative models of care delivery; educational sessions for geriatric professionals from all disciplines. |
4 events,The challenges to journalists are coming fast and furious: Access denied, outright falsehoods, alternative facts and sources afraid to talk. The National Press Foundation is joining forces with the National Press Club Journalism Institute to host a half-day symposium on Wednesday, April 19 from 9 a.m. to noon in the Club’s Murrow Room. Panelists will include beat reporters and industry leaders. The goal is to help the working press learn to navigate the treacherous landscape facing us today. |
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Don’t miss the world’s premier training event for journalists interested in covering health care, medical research, public health issues, consumer health, ethics and the business of health care. Health Journalism 2017 will host hundreds of reporters, editors, producers and news directors taking part in educational sessions, skills-building opportunities and career networking. Speakers at year’s meeting will discuss topics including medical errors, cardiac emergencies and pain control for children and adults. |
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2 events,The annual meeting of the American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD) and the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD) will include discussions focusing on a range of public health topics including water fluoridation, the role of the dental workforce in disease prevention and efforts aimed at integrating oral health into overall health care systems. CDC’s Acting Principal Deputy Director Dr. Patricia Simone will host a media availability for reporters. Four current EIS officers will describe the behind-the-scenes details of their investigations of acute flaccid myelitis, the drug-resistant fungus Candida auris, the opioid epidemic, and Zika. |
3 events,National Geographic photographers discuss their work documenting how boys and girls are viewed by societies. Medicaid programs could see dramatic changes this year and beyond, even if the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act continues to stall. Several states are taking a fresh look at expanding Medicaid under the ACA, while others are considering waivers under a new administration that will be receptive to experimentation.
This Alliance for Health Reform briefing for journalists will look ahead at actions that may be taken by Congress, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the states. |
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1 event,The Annual Health Datapalooza is the gathering place for people and organizations creating knowledge from data and pioneering innovations that drive health policy and practice. |
2 events,Brian Ahier from Medicity will give an overview of blockchains and their impact on HIE. |
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