With pharmaceutical and other life sciences companies required to track payments to physicians starting January 1, 2012, under the federal Physician Payment Sunshine Provisions, StarCite recently offered some recommendations on how to track spend...

I had it on my to-do list to write up my notes of the ACCME's chief executive Murray Kopelow, MD's excellent session at the Task Force meeting last month, but Thomas Sullivan beat me to it. Here's his take on it, posted on Policy and Medicine: CME...

What will hotels of the future look like? According to a new report from Fast Future Research and travel technology company Amadeus, travelers will expect an increasingly personalized hotel stay, and successful brands will adapt, using technology...

A poll by healthcare brand communications agency Photosound found that 88 percent of the 43 global healthcare exhibitors surveyed say the trade show floor of the future will be more focused on providing clinical discussion than on promotion and...

According to an article in the current issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, while almost 84 percent of respondents to a survey said they had some sort of relationship with industry during the previous year, this is 12 percent fewer than was...

The Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy piece of the FDA Amendments Act of 2007 , aka REMS, was a hot topic at the Task Force meeting last month. While it seems there may be a few wrinkles to work out, our columnist Stephen Lewis thinks it...

Here's an interesting prognostication from Jane McGonigal, Director of game research/dev., Institute for the Future: "We’re going to see games around medical innovation, that doctors are going to play.” I think adding a gaming element to CME could...