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.
It may just be one or two out of an entire staff, but physicians who are yellers, screamers, and surgical instrument-throwers can be disruptive to patients and colleagues alike, according to a recent survey by the American College of Physician...
A reader commenting on >Pharma in the hot seat again made a good point: "As a CME provider... Let's not blame the pharma companies for everything; they market this way because it works. Regulations have changed & it is far more difficult...
A re-run of Dr. Marcia Angell s March appearance on "60 Minutes" last night reminds me of a recent article in BusinessWeek that also quoted Dr. Angell and the accusations she makes against pharma in her book, The Truth about Drug Companies: How...
One of the several awards Meeting Professionals International gave out at the Congress in Denver in July went to Matawan, N.J. — based Altered Image and Navigant Performance Group, which earned the award for Best Product Launch Event for the...
What some providers say they find particularly galling about Stark II is that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Medicaid/Medicare reimbursement policy is moving toward a “pay for performance” standard. This means that hospitals and...
When a natural disaster hits, the adage “every man for himself” goes out the window. People do have a tendency to work together when things look bleak, and the reaction to Charley, on and after the destructive August 13 hurricane hit Southwest...
