In the current landscape of stricter pharmaceutical industry guidelines and intense scrutiny, continuing medical education providers are changing the way they conduct meetings and CME. In the past few weeks, a handful of providers have announced...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education has announced it will not be taking any action to ban commercial support at this time. That decision and other news are outlined in an executive summary of the March 2009 ACCME board of...
Hotels are making unprecedented concessions these days, including no-attrition guarantees. But what if you negotiated your contract before the market turned to the buyer’s favor? If you’re facing attrition now, is it too late to get in on a deal...
A small group of politicians and event industry leaders gathered for a breakfast meeting on the final day of NEMICE, the annual meeting of the New England Chapter of Meeting Professionals International, to discuss how meetings and events can be p...
Exhibit space, exhibitors, attendance, and revenues: Each of these key indicators of the exhibition industry’s health dropped in 2008, resulting in the first overall decline for this market since 2002, according to the Center for Exhibition...
The Iowa State Senate approved a healthcare reform bill on March 19 that includes a ban on gifts to physicians and other healthcare practitioners. The bill, which must be approved by the Iowa House of Representatives before it’s adopted, comes on...
The Pay for Performance Act of 2009 passed the House of Representatives last Wednesday, giving the Treasury Department the power to define what constitutes “unreasonable and excessive” compensation at companies that have received federal bailout...
The mission of the Meeting Industry Ladies Organization—or MILO, as it’s known in the biz—has always been golf and networking. Now, the only “for women only” national organization in our industry is adding another element to its annual golf event...
