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.
The firing of 98 housekeepers at three Boston-area Hyatt hotels has created a storm of protest. Hotel workers, supporters, and politicians have rallied outside Hyatt properties in Boston and Chicago, at least one group canceled its meeting, and...
Meeting management software provider StarCite has decided to stop charging hotels and conference centers the per-room-night fees it had been receiving from them for group bookings generated via StarCite’s supplier database and RFP engine...
Looks like MECCs are taking another hit--check out this press release: GSK limits medical education funding to independent programs with highest impact on patient care. From the PR: ...
When future historians look back on the early days of social media—the days we’re living through right now—they might find that some of the earliest “killer apps” for interactive technologies depended on the power of face-to-face meetings...
Working with the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control, the International Association of Exhibitions and Events has published a guide to help event organizers—particularly not-for-profit associations—handle today’s H1N1 flu...
I sense the hand of my former editor and ACCME's director of communications, Tamar Hosansky, in the new e-newsletter from ACCME called, not surprisingly, The ACCME Report (link goes to pdf download). ...
We're so used to drug companies paying huge fines and settlements for misdeed when it comes to marketing their drugs that we don't really think much (or at least I hadn't until this morning) about whether or not these settlements do anything to...
Earlier this month, the largest settlement yet levied against a pharmaceutical company for illegal promotion of a drug was settled against Pfizer and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. The $2.3 billion fine sanctioned the pharmaceutical...
BCD Meetings & Incentives has made two strategic moves to strengthen its market position. The company announced the acquisition this week of One World Partners, a Sausalito, Calif., company that specializes in managing incentives, meetings...
With renewed focus on virtual meetings, organizations are looking for ways to use technology to turn large, costly national meetings into more cost-effective regional meetings. But how can they do so successfully without losing the messaging or...
