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.
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...
The U.S. Travel Association calls it the “annual stress test” for airports. It’s Thanksgiving weekend, and if you’re a traveler who avoids these peak travel days at all costs, you might want to stop reading now...
In previous pieces I have written about how important I think strategic meetings management is, and what I think should be included in an SMM program. And yet, it seems to me that the spread of SMM has stalled. For the purposes of this discussion...
Global economic growth has been climbing steadily since 2013, a trend that will continue into 2016, according to data crunched by CWT for its 2015 Meetings & Events Forecast, a supplement to its 2015 Global Travel Price Index, which was this...
