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.
Many experts predict that within a few years most doctors will use handheld computing devices, such as the Palm(TM) handhelds or Pocket PC as an integral part of their everyday practice. It is expected that they will be used to track and update...
Shortly after Merck & Co. launched its new website for physicians, merckmedicus.com, the company hired Harris Interactive, a market research firm, to measure how well the site was going over with its target audience...
There is an ongoing need for improved quality educational material related to genetic topics for emergency room and general practice physicians, according to a study in the current Mayo Clinic Proceedings...
The Healthcare Marketing and Communications Council, Inc. (HMCCI) is offering a series of introductory courses on pharmaceutical marketing communications. The Account Service Development Program (Training Camp For Account People) will be offered...
The ACCME's Task Force on Adapting ACCME to the Internet has presented a series of draft policy statements that would be applicable to CME delivered via the Internet by accredited providers. These draft policy statements have been disseminated as...
HealthStream, Inc., a provider of e-learning solutions for the healthcare industry based in Nashville, Tenn., has announced that it has signed an agreement with Development Dimensions International (DDI), a human resources and consulting firm, to...
The Associated Press is reporting that leading medical journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine, and the Lancet, plan to implement tougher guidelines for publication of industry-supported...
The U.S. Pharmacopeia Drug Quality & Information Program (USPDQI) and the Drug Information Association (DIA) are co-sponsoring an International Conference on Pharmaceutical Affairs, to be held October 2-5, 2001, at Hotel De L'Annapurma in...
There are health leaders, information technologists and policy makers who believe information technology provides appropriate tools for the remote practice of medical care and clinical decision support. The University of Michigan Health System and...
