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.
Beginning with the 2003 year, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) will annually establish six National Patient Safety Goals as part of its intensive efforts to reduce errors in health care. CME providers may...
The Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today announced that it has enhanced its free, online hospital statistics tool, HCUPnet, by adding 1998 and 1999 data for the Nation, regions of the country, and selected States, and by...
The Tenth Anniversary Congress on Women's Health will be held at the Crowne Plaza Resort on Hilton Head Island on May 18-21, 2002. The Congress is jointly sponsored by Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine and University of South...
The 2002 American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC), the nation's largest conference of occupational and environmental health professionals, is expected to draw more than 5,000 physicians, nurses, scientists, safety engineers, industrial...
Could “convergence” meetings such as this one coming up next month in Michigan be a sign of things to come in medical meetings? The April 4 IT Forum ``Life Sciences/Biotech: Why Here, Why Now?'' at the Crowne Plaza, 610 Hilton Blvd., in Ann Arbor...
More than nine out of ten physicians say they will likely participate in online pharmaceutical drug detailing presentations in the next few months and rate the Internet as an 'extremely positive' tool for receiving continuing education programs...
The 18th Annual Toward an Electronic Patient Record 2002 Emerging Health Information Solutions Conference and Exhibition (TEPR) will be held May 11-16, 2002 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle...
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced the launch of its Distinguished Lecture Series on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)...