What medical and pharmaceutical/bioscience/medical device meeting planners and continuing medical education professionals need to know to plan meetings and CME activities for healthcare professionals.
More than 41,000 healthcare professionals will be calling Vancouver their conference destination in 2015 as the city ramps up its appeal to the white-coat crowd. Among the 2015 medical conventions meeting in Vancouver for the first time this year...
The Alliance for Continuing Education in the Healthcare Professions' advocacy and membership committees recently alerted ACEhp members about an article in Forbes magazine about the “21st Century Cures Act” draft legislation that has been proposed...
All types of CME providers can demonstrate compliance with Criterion 21. The key is to establish a framework that is unique to the specific type of CME provider to manage issues related to quality improvement.
Image by Gustavo da Cunha Pimenta via FlickrStarwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide this week launched two new initiatives: a partnership with Uber that gives Starwood Preferred Guests points for using the ride-sharing platform; and the ProMeetings...
Similar to the sequencing of the human genome and NCI’s Cancer Genome Atlas project, the CME industry is on a path to using our data to uncover the most effective strategies for providing CME that leads to improvements in patient care.
Image courtesy of StarwoodStarwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide is bringing a mashup of digital, design, and luxury brand teams together in one place—a creative hub called Starlab—to drive innovation and bring a startup sensibility to the hospita...
SAP CEO Bill McDermott SAP CEO Bill McDermott likes to share his personal stories about the power of meetings to solidify and spread corporate values, and even turn a company around. He beamed his message into IMEX America last fall, and now he’s...
Once upon a time, meeting attendees had pretty minimal meal choices—generally chicken or beef, and if they didn’t like it, they ate around it or got their meals outside of the ballroom. But the plates were cleared long ago on those simple meal ch...
Even Mango is sick of being up to her neck in the white stuff.I rejoiced this morning when I looked at the thermometer and saw it was 24 degrees out—heat wave! Then I looked again and it was actually 2.4 degrees. Sigh. It takes me longer to don m...
Meeting Professionals International has partnered with Destination Marketing Association International to incorporate DMAI’s Destination Finder into its Web site, MPIweb.org. The free tool, which is powered by DMAI’s empowerMINT.com, provides des...
