Information about the rules and regulations that govern interactions between pharmaceutical, bioscience, medical device company, and other life sciences company interactions with physicians and other healthcare professionals. This includes information on the Sunshine Act, state laws, the PhRMA Code, and the AdvaMed Code on Ethical Interactions with Healthcare Professionals.
Ever since The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, issued its final guidelines in February 2013 for how life sciences companies need to comply with the U.S. Sunshine Act provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act go...
At the IHG reception held after the close of the first day of the 2014 Pharma Forum, Danielle Baruch, key account director, pharmaceutical market, IHG, helped deliver the Forum’s first-ever awards...
The 2014 Pharma Forum, held March 23-26 at the Orlando World Center Marriott, was all about learning, sharing, and networking. Here are some of the people who made it all happen in the sessions, on the trade show floor, and at the networking...
Journalist watchdog group ProPublica's most recent analysis takes a look at the amount of money pharmaceutical companies are spending on payments to physicians for promotional speaking fees. Guess what? They're on the decline.
At a session at the 2013 Pharma Forum, life sciences meetings managers explored how planners can add value by creating more meaningful experiences, gaining a better understanding how their attendees learn, and encouraging more attendee engagement...
This week GlaxoSmithKline became the first major pharmaceutical company to announce it would no longer compensate physicians for talks promoting its products or about diseases its products treat to “audiences who can prescribe or influence prescr...
During the past 50 years, we have seen an unprecedented extension in life expectancy, from age 68 in 1950 to age 78 today. Many of our health improvements are due to new therapies and treatments created by collaborations between physicians and...
Two opening keynote speakers at the Meeting Management and Speaker Programs Life Sciences Forum, held last week at the Coronado Island Marriott Resort and Spa near San Diego, Calif., explored two sides of the same regulation coin.
Laura Duffy, a...
Meeting planners and speaker program managers from pharmaceutical, medical device, and other life sciences companies gathered in late November 2013 at Coronado Island near San Diego for the Meeting Management and Speaker Programs Life Sciences...
I read a fascinating editorial in the New Yorker's Financial Page over the weekend that had me wondering if, instead of driving down the costs of healthcare by making financial transactions between physicians and pharmaceutical companies publi...
