Health Care Financing meetings & conferences

2014 National Reproductive Health Conference

August 3-6, 2014 Orlando, Florida

We invite you & your colleagues to join us for one of the largest Title X conferences in the nation, the 2014 National Reproductive Health Conference!

This conference is designed for advanced practice nurses, physicians, physician assistants, registered nurses, counselors, social workers, health educators & all other personnel who interact with clients in health centers providing family planning services.

Conference Competencies & Objectives

• Describe current scientific evidence & nationally recognized standards of care in male & female reproductive health care (e.g., risk & disease screening, contraceptive counseling & medical management of common reproductive health care issues)

• Explore evidence-based & emerging family planning service models to assure regulatory compliance, improve efficiency, maximize reimbursement & enhance service delivery

• Implement protocols, communication strategies, & clinical practice strategies that address the diverse needs of women, men, & adolescents in the family planning setting

• Identify concrete strategies for integrating & improving the delivery of family planning & reproductive health services for males

• Discuss current policy issues & their implications for the delivery of family planning services

• Demonstrate required knowledge & skill in selected clinical procedures including urogenital examination, female pelvic & breast examination, microscopy, endometrial & skin biopsy, IUC, & hormonal implant insertion

Implications of the Affordable Care Act for Low Income Individuals and Families

November 1-2, 2013 Davis, California

The full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) over the coming years will bring many changes in the level of and process for access to health care among poor and working class Americans.  In November 2013, the Center for Poverty Research at the University of California, Davis will host an interdisciplinary conference focusing on research that provides insight and background into likely effects of the ACA on low income individuals and their families.

Global Mental Health Forum--Sustainable Development Through Global Action: The Case for Investing in Mental Health

Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, United Kingdom 27-28 September 2013

Following on from previous successful events on global mental health and the 2007 Lancet Series on Global Mental Health conference, we would like to invite you to attend our inaugural Global Mental Health Forum to be held on 27-28 September 2013 at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.

This year’s forum, hosted by the Centre for Global Mental Health (a joint initiative of King’s Health Partners and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), aims to encourage the sharing of evidence and experience to strengthen the case for greater investment in mental health research and services around the world– especially in low and middle income countries. Forum topics include: capacity-building; integrating mental health; programme development and implementation; scaling-up; evaluation; consumer experiences of care; mental health policies and plans; financing mental health. The forum will include plenary sessions; however, it will largely consist of submitted symposia, workshops and oral and poster presentations.

Global Health 2013, The Second International Conference on Global Health Challenges

November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

Colocated with other events part of DataSys 2013

Tracks:

FUNDAMENTALS
Foundations in global health informatics; Computational health; Software for health; Independent living technologies; ICT and health; Platform interoperability; Semantic interoperability; Diagnosis systems; Applied health informatics; User interfaces and visualization

TECHNOLOGY
Bio-medical semantics; Bio-medicine; Disease biomarker prediction; Applications of bio-nano technology; Body networks; Mobile healthcare; Ubiquitous healthcare

TRENDS
Clinical epigenetic; Long term health conditions; Ambient assisted; Genetics; Virtual reality in medicine surgery; Clinical trials; Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics; Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

PRACTICE
Nursing; Patient-centered care; Personalized medicine; Pervasive health; Homecare; Pharmaceutical services

ALTERNATIVE
Biomedicine; Natural medicine; Preventive medicine; Chronic diseases following; Home surveillance

CHALLENGES
Security aspects and access control on medical data; Data management in pervasive context; Data quality assurance and provenance; Patient flow models in hospitals; Clinical data analysis; Information visualization of medical data

GLOBAL
eHealth initiatives; Social medicine; Health global accessibility; Epidemic spreading and control; Health Education; Providing health in remote areas; Decision support within healthcare; Ethical aspects in eHealth; Healthcare plans and patient benefits; Synchronization of federal regulations; Availability of medication; Community health services

Pharma Market Access Pricing and Reimbursement Conference

October 23-24, 2013 San Francisco, California

The conference will provide attendees with an opportunity to learn about the key developments impacting the future of pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement, including:

The increasing importance of generating, collecting and analyzing reimbursement evidence early in product development and identifying points of differentiation of a product versus existing standards of care

The impact of Health Technology Assessments (HTAs) on both private and public payer reimbursement decisions

Coverage with Evidence Development (CED) and performance-based risk-sharing agreements, based on long-term outcomes

The role of comparative effectiveness in future clinical trials and reimbursement decisions

Value-base pricing, which requires companies to back up reimbursement claims with strong evidence that products are a good use of money available

Alternative and shared risk pricing schemes

Second National Forum on Data and Analytics in Healthcare

The eHealth Initiative Second National Forum on Data and Analytics in Healthcare will be held July 31st - August 1st, 2013 at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Washington D.C.  The two-day event will feature a series of brief case studies and interactive multi-stakeholder panels on integrating different systems and transforming data into actionable healthcare intelligence. Last year, the inaugural Forum hosted more than 350 experts from across the country – and we look forward to more people attending this important conference in 2013!

Who Should Attend?

- Hospital, Health System and Clinic executives

- Health Information Managers

- Health Plans/Payers executives

Titles include:

• Chief Executive Officers

• Chief Operating Officers

• Chief Medical Officers

• Chief Financial Officers

• Chief Quality Officers

• Chief Information Officers

• Medical Directors

-VPs, Directors, Officers, Managers of

• Quality Analysis/Improvement/Management

• Risk Management

• Analytics/Data Analytics/Clinical Analytics

• Clinical & Medical Informatics

• Health Information Technologies

• Medical Operations

• Medical Directors

• Medical Officers

• Medical Economics

• Data Analysts

• Performance Management

• Underwriting

• Claims

• Case Management

• Disease Management

• Clinical Outcomes

• Utilization Management

• Decision Support Analysts

• Senior Nursing Staff

• Directors of Public Health Programs

• Researchers/Scientists/Epidemiologists 

5th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference

September 11 & 12, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts

Arrowhead Publisher's 5th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference will tackle the issues driving as well as restraining the clinical delivery of personalized medicine, including coding and reimbursement, the economics of personalized medicine and Medicare policy.

12th Annual International Conference on Health Economics, Management & Policy

24-27 June 2013, Athens, Greece

The Health  Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 12th Annual International Conference on Health Economics, Management & Policy 24-27 June 2013, Athens, Greece.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, researchers and students from all areas of health economics, management and policy. Areas of interest include (but are not confined to): Equity and Poverty in Health, Pharmaceutical Economics, Quality of Life, Economic Evaluation, Health Care Reforms, Social Security, School Health Programs, Health Law and Health Related Business.

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic association with the mission to become a forum, where academics and researchers - from all over the world - could meet in Athens to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future developments in their disciplines. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 200 international conferences, symposiums and events. It has also published approximately 150 books. Academically, the Institute consists of five Research Divisions and twenty-three Research Units. Each Research Unit organizes an annual conference and undertakes various small and large research projects. Academics and researchers are more than welcome to become members and contribute to ATINER's objectives. The members of the Institute can undertake a number of academic activities. For more information or suggestions, please send an email to: info@atiner.gr.

Symposium on Disability, Technology and Rehabilitation in Low and Middle Income Countries

June 27th & 28th, 2013 Seattle, Washington, USA

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington will host the symposium, Disability, Technology and Rehabilitation in Low and Middle Income Countries, on June 27 & 28th, 2013 at the University of Washington. Building off of the 2009 and 2010 workshops on Technology & Disability in the Developing World, the 2013 symposium will expand topic areas to include rehabilitation services.

Symposium objective

To bring together researchers, clinicians, consumers, consumer led organizations, policy makers, technology developers and providers, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders who focus on improving and increasing access to technology and rehabilitation products and services with the goal of ensuring full inclusion and participation for people with disabilities in low-resourced communities in low and middle income countries.

Across the broad areas of technology and rehabilitation in limited resourced environments, we are particularly interested in the following specific topics:

■Assistive technology and accessible information and communication technology
■Service delivery models
■Human resource development
■Policy, regulatory and funding mechanisms for supporting provision of technology and rehabilitation services
■Research and evidence-based practice

Contact Information

More information can be found at: http://idtr.uwctds.washington.edu/welcome and by contacting the symposium organizers: Becky Matter (bmatter@uw.edu) or Mark Harniss (mharniss@uw.edu).

AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting

June 23-25, 2013 Baltimore, Maryland

For 30 years, AcademyHealth's ARM has been the premier forum for health services research, where more than 2,200 attendees gather to discuss health policy implications, sharpen research methods, and network with colleagues from around the world. The ARM program is designed for health services researchers, providers, key decision makers, clinicians, graduate students, and research analysts.

Conference Themes

Behavioral Health

Health Care Workforce

Medicare

Child Health

Health Information Technology

Methods Research

Complex Chronic Conditions

Improving Quality and Value

Organizational Behavior and Management

Consumer Choice and Behavior

Long-Term Care

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

Coverage Dynamics and Access

Measuring Quality and Value

Payment Delivery System Innovations

Disparities and Health Equity

Medicaid's Expansion

Public and Population Health