Hear from several chiefs on the importance of the mental health and wellness of your members. Is there a mental health component in your annual physicals? What happens if a mental health issue is discovered? Is your department doing everything it can to help raise awareness of cardiac incidents and steps to take regarding cancer prevention for your firefighters? Have we made progress in these areas? Learn successful practices from several depa...

Join AchieveIt for a live webinar as we discuss some of the challenges the state and local health departments have faced throughout the last year. AchieveIt will be joined by Melissa Tung, Director of Quality & Strategic Management, from Williamson County and Cities Health District. Over the past year, all health departments’ focus shifted towards fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and helping their communities recover. During this perio...

DESCRIPTION Much of life involves obstacles and challenges that are meant to wear everyone (government, industry, and individuals) down but yet teach us a lesson. However, resiliency over time becomes very important and can be strengthened as we continue to find solutions and gain intelligence from lessons learned. Today, after over a year of a pandemic, the health ecosystem, the mass vaccinations, and health care in general still continue to...

Most state and local fiscal years are coming to an end. This year is the first of several years of expected financial hardships and budget shortfalls. How are states and cities navigating through another fiscal crisis so soon after the Great Recession? What difficult decisions are they making as a result? And can states and cities budget better. We’ll explore these themes and more during this second Route Fifty town hall.

As this pandemic has changed the way to work day-to-day, so has the way in which we disseminate training material. A virtual training program must adapt to all aspects of adult learning while maintaining a high level of engagement. Join us online for a complimentary webinar on how to create and maintain high levels of retention and engagement in an online learning environment. Our team of eLearning experts will teach you the basics of Adult Le...

While telehealth is a necessary and beneficial solution during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond, its growing use can jeopardize the safety of sensitive patient data and privacy. Observing best practices for data collection, storage, management, and destruction is essential to collaboration, compliance, governance, and patient data privacy. Join us to explore new practices and technologies that are helping organizations use data in innovative way...

Join Aperture and Carahsoft for a webinar discussing State Medicaid agencies wanting to increasingly develop provider directory and search applications, especially in an era of patient engagement and supported by CMS funding.While the benefits are clear - such as improving provider data accuracy and meeting interoperability requirements - the task is complex. Enter Aperture Health. We've helped a large state launch a successful Medicaid provid...

Join REI Systems and Howard University for our inaugural Government Technology Breakfast forum with lessons learned from FDA and NIH on how they each use AI to address minority health disparities and the general challenges of AI/ML regarding inclusivity, data curation, and calculations (algorithms and labels) that result in negative biases towards marginalized populations. Monitoring and ethical review of impacts is a critical metric that indi...

COVID-19 challenged government agencies with little warning, and agencies stepped up in ways that directly protected the lives of their employees and the American population. Agencies faced familiar obstacles like collecting sensitive data, protecting personal privacy, determining eligibility for government services, and assisting the delivery of services to citizens across the country. Join this session to hear how forward-thinking organizati...

Fortunately, COVID vaccines have been developed at a record pace. How has that been done, were any testing corners cut, safety standards violated and vaccines rushed into the public domain? In the second Public Health webinar in the series with the American Public Health Association, the Milken Institute, MDB and SSF, will convene vaccine research, manufacturing, and regulatory experts to answer these questions and provide you with important i...