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.
Medical meeting exhibitors are struggling to interpret how the recent California Marketing Compliance Law, which regulates pharma companies' promotional activities and gifts to physicians, affects their regional and national meeting activities...
Some attendees hailed a session called Practical Strategies for Better Outcomes, held at the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education Annual Conference in San Francisco in January, as the best session on outcomes they had ever attended...
After Announcing in December that it was in the initial phase of developing a medical meeting planner certification program, the Professional Meeting Planner Network, Durham, N.C., began sending a survey to a cross-section of CME and meeting...
While many pharma companies are dismantling their internal meeting planning departments and outsourcing their functions, Pfizer has taken a different approach: It has actually expanded three of its meeting planning teams. Find out how Pfizer...
As most of you probably know, biotechnology company Serono, based in Geneva, Switzerland, agreed in October to pay $704 million to the United States federal government to settle charges that it illegally marketed its AIDS drug Serostim. According...
There has been a frenzy of activity in recent months with seemingly everyone involved in CME seeking to avoid negative publicity or to assure that their organizations are protected from official sanction from the Accreditation Council for CME...
CME providers agonize over eliminating the possible perception of bias in their activities due to pharmaceutical industry support, but are docs similarly concerned — and if so, are they concerned enough to pay their own way? For the first time...
I Recently Attended the American Heart Association annual meeting in Dallas. It was an impressive event — more than 27,000 attendees took over most of the city for five full days. The exhibit hall was inspirational, with pharmaceutical companies...
I think my favorite moment at this year's Annual Conference of the National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration was when Gardiner Harris, a scientific reporter for The New York Times, said, “But can't the commercial supporter view a...
Meeting Professionals International has come on board as the educational sponsor for the Second Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, and will provide CEUs for attendees. Organized by Medical Meetings and the Center for Business...
