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.
Atul Gawande, author of numerous articles in The New Yorker magazine and of the books Complications and Better, makes a powerful case that the humble checklist should be elevated to a new level of importance in healthcare in his new book, The...
The U.S. Office of Inspector General is urging the Department of Homeland Security to have greater oversight and controls over money spent on conferences. Among the OIG's recommendations is for DHS to explore technological alternatives to...
If you are interested in presenting at next year's Alliance for Continuing Medical Education Annual Conference (January 26-29, 2011, at the San Francisco Marriott), don't wait to get started on your educational abstract. The deadline to submit...
In the better-late-than-never department: The Accreditation Council for CME has issued a call for comment on three proposals: one aimed to help balance the need for both transparency and confidentiality in ACCME's Complaints and Inquiries Process...
Meetings and Incentives, the Caledonia, Wis.–based meetings management company, has won its bid to partner with corporate travel management company giant Travelocity Business...
When HelmsBriscoe Founder and CEO Roger Helms welcomed more than 1,800 HB associates, guests, and hotel partners to the company’s Annual Business Conference in January, he told them he knew everyone was glad to say farewell to 2009 and look ahead...
Much as I love New Orleans and the Alliance for CME meeting, it felt great to wake up in my own bed this morning (I got home yesterday and technically woke up in my own bed then, too, but after delays that got me actually at my house around 4 am...
Effective January 20, inbound travelers to the United States from Visa Waiver Program countries may be denied boarding by the airlines if they haven’t complied with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Electronic System for Travel...
