A lot has happened to the role of medical education companies since Rockpointe Corp. filed its incorporation papers on October 2, 1995. Once considered an integral part of a pharmaceutical company’s communications strategy, medical education...
Lighthouse Learning may have scored a first for a continuing medical education–related for-profit company: a front-page story in The Boston Globe on the company’s launch earlier this week. The source of its newsworthiness? The new company plans...
The Healthcare Convention and Exhibitors Association has compiled a list of the 50 largest medical conventions held in the United States last year, and the top 20 destinations for healthcare meetings in 2009...
In April, the federal government adopted new rules setting stiff penalties for airlines that strand passengers on the tarmac for more than three hours. This fall, the Department of Transportation may take its airline passenger protections several...
It was a little shocking to see this story on the launch of a new medical education company on the front page of today's Boston Globe. I'm trying to schedule an interview now with the person behind the launch -- Martin Samuels, MD, a neurologist...
...that they may not be disclosing fully. According to an article in today's Boston Globe, some researchers cross-referenced physician payment databases with journal article disclosures and found fewer than half of docs receiving $1 million or...
Over the last few days, I’ve been slowly returning to Earth after soaring through the innovative design and timely content of EventCamp Twin Cities, a hybrid meeting that brought 100 participants to Minneapolis September 9; with small groups of...
We learned this lesson with swine flu in Mexico, with AIG at a resort, and now with oil in the Gulf: Meetings and travel are always in danger of death by a thousand sound bites...
Hoteliers and convention and visitor bureau chiefs are among the first 11 travel and tourism industry leaders recently named to the new Corporation for Travel Promotion board of directors...
Experts answer your compliance questions about interactions between industry and healthcare providers at medical meetings and events.
