*The newly expanded Kentucky International Convention Center (formerly the Commonwealth Convention Center) reopened earlier this year in Louisville. New space, including the 30,000-square-foot Cascade Ballroom, has brought the center's total space...
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The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) has elected Connie S. Cape to serve as the organization's voluntary chairwoman of the board of directors for 2000-01. Her term began on June 1, 2000. Previously Cape was vice president and...
1. Which browser is best? A browser is the software you use to view the Web (analogous to a using a word processor to create documents). The battle rages between two: Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Both are excellent, have nearly the...
Follow the Money ACCME PROPOSES FIREWALL TO PROTECT CME The Accreditation Council for CME has proposed a policy to clarify the boundaries between accredited CME providers and commercial supporters, and to help ensure that CME activities are...
According to the Alliance for CME's history book, the organization's early annual conferences consisted of roundtable discussions. As part of the Alliance's 25th anniversary conference this January in New Orleans, MM brought together 14 CME...
For 37 years, the Austin-based Texas Medical Association's annual meeting hadn't changed much. Its name, "The Annual General Scientific Session and Program," said it all. Attention-grabbing it was not, and declining attendance year after year...
CME NOTES Yet another study has been released showing that physicians are not communicating acceptably with patients. Audiotapes of 1,057 patient-physician discussions, made by Clarence H. Braddock, MD, for the University of Washington in Seattle...
HEALTH CARE Katherine M. Pauza has joined Poretta & Orr, Doylestown, Pa., as a senior account supervisor. Prior to her position at Poretta, she was a project management consultant for SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals. Poretta & Orr is a...