Hotels are well aware of the rise of Airbnb, the Web site for people renting out rooms and homes and the people looking to book those accommodations. (With the possible exception of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., that is, whose vice president of lea...

To find out how to help attendees get the most from meetings, we contacted health and stress expert Heidi Hanna, PhD, a speaker, author, and the CEO of Synergy, a consultancy that creates specialized health and performance solutions for organizat...

Last year we published a comprehensive guide to high-speed Internet access at meetings. Then we blinked. We wrote about attendees with two devices downloading video. Now they’re probably carrying three, all running high-bandwidth apps. “It’s an ...

ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism group that has set its sights on digging up unethical behavior when it comes to physician/pharmaceutical industry research, speaking, and other financial relationships, recently co-published anothe...

Judy Sweetnam, Steve Passin Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be part of an interprofessional collaborative community, that offers accredited educational programs for nursing, pharmacy, and medicine, all via one application and revi...

Ever since The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, issued its final guidelines in February 2013 for how life sciences companies need to comply with the U.S. Sunshine Act provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act go...

The world of destination management companies was rocked last fall when the Washington, D.C.–based DMC consortium Global Events Partners first announced the closing of seven company-owned DMCs and then the bankruptcy of the entire company (and it...