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.
While the Americas Meetings and Events Exhibition, which debuts June 21-23, 2011, at the Baltimore Convention Center, announced last spring that it will co-locate with the Professional Convention Management Association’s 2011 Education Conference...
You can read about neurosurgical techniques, but to really learn it, experts say you have to see a brain surgeon in action. While the capacity for live observation in a surgical suite is limited, technology has now advanced to the point where a...
Whew, this has been a long day! And tomorrow will be even longer, seeing as the first session of the National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration starts at 7 a.m. (what??). But so far it's been pretty good, though more uneven than I...
EIBTM’s annual meetings technology innovation competition has announced its winner: Montréal-based Sherpa Solutions’ ActivTouch smartphone application edged out 51 other meeting technologies for the first-place spot in the 2010 WorldWide...
The state of Massachusetts (where I just so happen to live) has one of the strictest policies of any state around the interactions between healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies. Earlier this week MassBio hosted the 2010 Gubernatorial...
Imagine if an event company or facility kept raising prices and cutting service, created huge logistical roadblocks for customers, proved incapable of turning a profit, then pushed back on regulators’ attempts to smarten up their practices...
The $1.4 billion acquisition of AirTran Airways by Southwest Airlines, announced on September 27, is likely to mean a bump in fares for meeting travelers. What’s uncertain is if the merged carrier will have a discount program for meetings...
Happy to be hosting the Maritz Meetings, Events & Incentives Forum after its hiatus in 2009, Christine Duffy, president and CEO, Maritz Travel, welcomed corporate clients and Maritz representatives to the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin in Orl...
