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.
Judy JohnsonJudy Johnson, CMP, president, CEO, and co-owner of Plano, Texas–based Rx Worldwide Meetings Inc. since 2000, has sold her medical meeting planning company to Sally and Mike Roberts, both of whom come from the pharmaceutical industry...
A recently launched search-based Web site from startup eMedEvents wants to make it as easy for docs and other healthcare professionals to find the meetings—and the continuing medical education credits they need—as Orbitz or Travelocity have made ...
Ruth Levine, founder of SpeakInc. Speakers bureau, released her list of the most popular female speakers for 2014 in July 2013. That prompted us to get in touch and ask her more about gender and the corporate speaker circuit.
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By Deborah Augustus and Ann C. Lichti, CCMEP
During the recent Healthcare Financial Management Association meeting, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD, professor of clinical medicine at the University of California San Francisco, touched upon a key concept t...
Members of the “Luminaries of Pharma Meetings Panel,†from left to right: Kimberly Meyer, founder, Meetings Analytics; Martin Hess-Janorschke, senior global event manager, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd; Lisa Meehan, director, N...
We found some new twists (selfies as promotional tools), major shifts (have you considered downscaling hotels?), little wows (smartphones as room keys), and big impressions (a wall of Instagram photos) to share with you in our roundup. We'd love ...
The event planning software company Social Tables and the advocacy group Meetings Mean Business have collaborated with industry experts on a trend report called “The 9 Ways Meetings Will Impact Hotels in 2015.” Among the contributors...
The new healthcare Accountable Care Organization model is a promising new partner for outcomes-driven continuing medical education, but it may be a tough nut to crack.
On a cold Halloween night while I walked the neighborhood with my children, dressed as Fred Flintstone, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its final physician fee schedule for 2015. In that 1,000-plus–page rule was a...
