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.
For the last seven years, Alcon Laboratories Inc. has broadcast a medical procedure from the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Louisiana, live, via satellite, to the American Academy of Ophthalmologists' annual convention, as part of a teaching program...
CME has a public image problem. So said 84 percent of the attendees polled via audience-response system at an opening panel discussion at this year's Annual Conference of the National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration, held October...
While talk of a certification program developed specifically for medical meeting planners has been circulating for years, the Professional Meeting Planners Network, Durham, N.C., decided in October to do more than talk. It is in the beginning...
As she tried to control the desperation in her voice, the nurse at Charity Hospital in New Orleans described on CNN the working conditions she and her colleagues were facing a few days after Hurricane Katrina — without electricity, they had to...
Just five days after Hurricane Katrina, the American Society for Microbiology, organizers of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy conference, announced that the meeting would be moving to the Washington (D.C.)...
CME providers are generally quite adept at conforming to current requirements for development of compliant activities. Faculty, too, are generally guideline-compliant and when unfamiliar with the rules, they are ready to listen, understand, and...
Change keeps coming. It doesn't take a genius to read the tea leaves here. To us, it signals a potential system collapse. Let's look at two incidents that have taken place recently...
