WALS NIH Director's Lecture: Reducing Firearm Violence: A Public Health Approach
David Hemenway, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy, is Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. He formerly spent a week each year at the University of Vermont as a James Marsh Visiting Professor-at-Large. The lecture will describe the enormity of the US gun violence problem and the public health approach for reducing that problem. It will illustrate the public health approach, including emphasizing the importance of data and research, with examples of ways to reduce suicide and unintentional firearm deaths. Dr. Hemenway teaches classes on injury and on economics. At HSPH he has won ten teaching awards as wel...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Data, Research and Firearm Injury Prevention
David Hemenway, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy, is Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. He formerly spent a week each year at the University of Vermont as a James Marsh Visiting Professor-at-Large.
Dr. Hemenway teaches classes on injury and on economics. At HSPH he has won ten teaching awards as well as the inaugural community engagement award.
Dr. Hemenway has written widely on injury prevention, including articles on firearms, violence, suicide, child abuse, motor vehicle crashes, fires, falls and fractures. He headed the pilot for the National Violent Death Reporting System, which provides detai...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Insuring healthcare cybersecurity and protecting organizations
Carriers are getting better than ever at understanding how healthcare cyberattacks unfold and can help protect healthcare organizations before threat actors strike, says John Menefee, cyber risk product manager at Travelers Bond and Specialty Insurance. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Providers can improve cyber resilience with new resources
Revised cyber hygiene resources and cybersecurity education videos for clinicians can help improve postures, and a new analysis found that hospitals with mature third-party programs save on insurance premiums, says Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Cybersecurity should be treated like business insurance
Healthcare organizations need to go from a reactive cybersecurity stance oriented around point solutions to developing comprehensive strategies to mitigate risk, says R. David Moon, chairman and founder of Arx Nimbus. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - May 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Bees come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes, but what critical role does this diversity play?
Bees come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. This diversity plays a critical role in the health of flowers and farms. Scientists call it the "insurance effect," a great variety of bees working together to pollinate specific plants. Learn more on NSF's "The Discovery Files."This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - October 28, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: video
Gravie works to reduce out-of-pocket costs and get hospitals paid up-front
Ben Simmons, VP of insurance at Gravie, says that Gravie Pay takes the " gotchas " out of healthcare billing. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Population health takes spotlight at Saudi Vision 2030
Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck talks about managing population health as senior advisor for Population Health and Care Management at the Council of Cooperative Health Insurance, Saudi Arabia. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 8, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
President Obama Speaks on the Affordable Care Act
President Obama acknowledges the technical issues with HealthCare.gov, pledging his Administration will resolve them soon and asserting that the distressed ACA web portal is not the only way to shop for affordable health insurance. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy Source Type: video
Thailand's insurance industry switching to value-based care
Dr. Mark Sundrakes, SVP and medical director at Krungthai-AXA Life Insurance PCL, discusses switching from payer to partner and from fee-based to value-based healthcare. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Attorney clears up misconceptions about HIPAA, cyber insurance, BAAs
Matt Fisher, partner and chair of the health law group at Mirick O ' Connell, says hospitals need to know the facts about HIPAA compliance (it does not gurantee security), risk analysis (it shouldn ' t necessarily be done alone), business associate agreements (read them, don ' t just sign them) and cyber insurance (it ' s not a panacea). (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Compliance, Public Policy, Regulation, Data Science, Data management, Core Technologies, Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy Source Type: video
Harvard economist Katherine Baicker on the complex question of Medicaid expansion
Katherine Baicker, professor of health economics at Harvard ' s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, spoke at the HIMSS Pop Health Forum about the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, whose findings on the effects of Medicaid expansion have been touted by both supporters and opponents of the Affordable Care Act. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy, Population and Public Health, Care Source Type: video
What are the legal responsibilities of victims of a ransomware attack?
In this episode of HIT Cybersecurity, attorney Wynter Deagle, partner at Troutman Pepper, discusses what health systems should be thinking about in terms of incident response, cyber insurance and other compliance questions. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - May 20, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
NIMHD Director's Seminar: Best Practices for the Development, Recruitment, and Retention of a Diverse Faculty
NIMHD Director's Seminar Series
Dr. Mangione is the chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research and the Barbara A. Levey, M.D., and Gerald S. Levey, M.D., Endowed Chair in medicine, and professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a professor of public health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, director of the UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research, and associate director of the UCLA Clinical Translational Science Institute.
Her research focuses on the influence of health insurance benefit des...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
