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.
The healthcare reform bill that passed the House on March 21 with a 219-212 majority aims to change not only healthcare delivery in the United States, but also the reporting requirements for payments between pharmaceutical and medical-device...
Thanks to Thomas Sullivan at Policy and Medicine for outlining the Physician Payment Sunshine Provisions of the healthcare reform bill that passed yesterday. I heard from many at our Pharmaceutical Meeting Management Forum last week that many...
One of the more interesting options for creating more affordable, sustainable conferences is to alternate a single, big, gathering with regional meetings in the off years...
What will meetings look like in 2020? That’s the big question on the minds of analysts at Fast Future Research, a London-based global research and consulting firm, who are in the midst of a multiphase study called Convention 2020. The results of...
What do these three things have to do with each other? Read this article for one of the weirdest conflict-of-interest stories I've heard in a while: Whose Red Dress? Docs Debate Diet Coke Logo
At a time when many associations are seeing participation levels plummet, ADAA’s attendance jumped 43 percent at the association’s 2010 conference in Baltimore
It’s time for meeting professionals to strategize, not hide. Speaking at the Sixth Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Management Forum in Philadelphia, Christine Duffy, president and CEO, Martiz Travel, took issue with the way many companies initially...