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SUMMARY:Rural Health Journalism Workshop 2014
DESCRIPTION:Workshop home\nProgram\nPresentations\nHotel\nPhotos\n\n\nFree workshop focuses on covering rural America\nAHCJ’s seventh Rural Health Journalism Workshop will bring journalists together with health care and policy experts who focus on the medical challenges of rural areas. \nLeave with a better understanding of what’s happening – or will be happening – in rural regions\, and return to work with dozens of story ideas you can pursue. \nThis special one-day\, no-fee workshop will help you find and cover health stories in rural America. \nThis workshop will run from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. at the DoubleTree by Hilton\, with breakfast and lunch provided as part of your membership. \nSpotlight Speaker\n\nTina Castañares \n\nTINA CASTAÑARES\, M.D.\, has been active in Oregon public health\, primary care\, public policy and philanthropy for almost 30 years. After retiring from clinical practice in 2012\, she is an affiliate faculty member of the Providence Center for Health Care Ethics. Her health policy background includes membership in the original Health Services Commission\, responsible for creating the pioneering prioritized list for the Oregon Health Plan. She worked as hospice medical director of The Gorge and provided palliative care consultations for Providence Connections. \nShe helped found One Community Health\, formerly La Clínica del Cariño\, a federally qualified community and migrant health center. She serves on its board of directors. For nine years she served on the board of the Northwest Health Foundation\, as chairman for two years. She served as the national clinical ombudswoman for farmworker health\, as well as on the board of the Migrant Clinicians Network. \nPre-registration is closed\nWe will accept registration on site. Please print and fill out the registration form (130 Kb PDF) and bring it with you. \nTravel assistance\nEven though this is a free workshop\, we understand some journalists may still have a hard time getting travel support. Thanks to our generous sponsors\, AHCJ has some travel assistance available. \nFor more information\, apply for assistance or contact us at 573-884-5606 or info@healthjournalism.org. \nPlease help us spread the word to your journalism colleagues. \n\n\nHOST \nOregon Health & Science University \nSPONSORS \nRobert Wood Johnson FoundationMissouri Foundation for HealthThe Commonwealth Fund
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/rural-health-journalism-workshop-2014/
LOCATION:Georgia
CATEGORIES:Workshops | Summits
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SUMMARY:Chronic Pain: The problem\, the science\, and the way forward
DESCRIPTION:The headlines are full of news and controversies about the misuse and abuse of opioids. But what about the people with chronic pain whom the drugs are meant to treat? \nJoin the New England Science Writers and the Boston chapter of Association of Health Care Journalists to hear a panel of experts address the scope and problem of chronic pain\, the unexpected experiences of people with chronic pain\, the gap between the care and the science\, the neurobiology and pressing unknown scientific questions\, and the development of new treatments. \nWe expect a lively question & answer session after the talks. \nPanelists: \n\nJudy Foreman\, medical specialist and science writer and author of “A Nation in Pain – Healing Our Biggest Health Problem” (Oxford University Press\, 2014) \nClifford Woolf PhD\, director of the F. M. Kirby Neurobiology Center and the Program in Neurobiology at Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts\, a professor of neurology and neurobiology at Harvard Medical School\, and a faculty member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute\n\nModerator: \n\nNeil Andrews\, Executive Editor\, Pain Research Forum\, an interactive website and online resource for the international pain research community\n\nCo-organizers: \n\nCarol Morton (NESW) & Gideon Gil (AHCJ)\n\nDate and time:Tuesday\, 17 June6:30 p.m. – refreshments7 – 8:30 p.m. – panel and discussion \nHost: Northeastern University\, Boston \nLocation: Raytheon Amphitheater\, 440 Egan Hall\, 120 Forsyth St.\, Boston\, Mass. \nCo-sponsors: New England Science Writers & the Boston chapter of Association of Health Care Journalists \nFree\, but registration is requested. \nTransportation and parking: Egan Hall is right next door to the Ruggles MBTA station and a short walk from the Green Line & 39 bus on Huntington Ave. Parking information TBA.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/chronic-pain-the-problem-the-science-and-the-way-forward/
LOCATION:Georgia
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SUMMARY:NYC Chapter: Mining ACA data for stories
DESCRIPTION:KatherineHempstead \nLooking for new angles on the Affordable Care Act? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will discuss the highlights of six databases on the law in an exclusive briefing for AHCJ members. The session will be led by RWJF’s Katherine Hempstead\, a rare data maven who spices her presentation with energy and humor. \nThe databases can answer many questions\, such as whether consumers are having trouble paying their sky-high deductibles or whether waiting lines are growing at doctors’ offices. Want to know how your state exchange differs from others? RWJF can help. Hempstead will also offer ideas for stories that can be mined from the data no matter your technical abilities. This is a can’t-miss event for journalists covering health care. \nPlease RSVP to Trudy Lieberman at trudy.lieberman@gmail.com \nJune 19\, 6-7:30 p.m.  \nLocation:New York Health Foundation1385 Broadway (between 37th and 38th) in New York City.Phone: 212-664-7656 \nLinks and more background can be found on RWJF’s ACA data page. Daily developments are at #ACAnumbers on Twitter. \nReform by the Numbers Datasets\nAs part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s efforts to monitor the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on coverage\, utilization and affordability\, we are working with a number of organizations to acquire and analyze timely and unique data. We have developed a website\, entitled Reform by the Numbers\, which will house downloadable data\, tables and graphs\, in addition to policy briefs\, blogs and other content that highlights key findings. The datasets and resources housed on the website are described below: \nEnrollment and Carrier Data \nThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) maintains an insurance database compiled from annual and quarterly financial statements of approximately 5\,000 insurance companies. NAIC is providing quarterly data of carrier reports that describe size and characteristics of group and individual markets. The annual version of the data will provide state breakdowns by quarter by carrier. Data will include\, in part\, information on the number of policies\, federal and state taxes\, health premiums\, and incurred claims. \nHospital ACA Monitoring Project \nThe New Jersey Hospital Association and Premier\, Inc. are managing collaborations of over 20 state hospital associations where each association will be providing quarterly discharge data. Data from other states is being submitted by Premier Inc. These data include total inpatient admissions and emergency department visits by payer\, as well as a number of select diagnoses and procedures likely to be sensitive to insurance. \nHealth Reform Monitoring Survey \nThe Urban Institute has launched the Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS)\, a quarterly survey of non-elderly adults that examine health insurance coverage\, health care access and affordability\, and health status. Starting with the second quarter of 2013\, each round of the HRMS will include supplemental questions on particular coverage-related issues. \nHIX 2.0 \nThe Health Insurance Exchange Research Group at The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania\, along with collaborators at other institutions\, has developed data detailing variation in governance and structure of ACA implementation across the 50 states. The data sets provide information in analytical formats on each state’s key implementation decisions regarding Health Insurance Marketplaces and Medicaid expansion\, among other topics. \nHIX Compare \nBreakaway Policy Strategies has compiled a dataset that details benefit design and cost sharing information for health plans offered in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This dataset will include information on premiums\, network composition\, deductibles\, out-of-pocket limits\, and copayment and coinsurance amounts. \nACA View \nathenahealth\, which provides billing and claims processing software to more than 45\,000 outpatient practices and collects real time data on financial\, operational\, and clinical characteristics of patient encounter\, has developed 35 metrics that monitor trends in appointment wait time\, physician schedule density\, health status of new patients\, patient balances due\, claims processing\, and provider reimbursement. athenahealth will provide these metrics to the foundation on a monthly basis.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/nyc-chapter-mining-aca-data-for-stories/
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