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How — and Why — You Should Include Patients at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

Over the last decade, there has been a slow-moving revolution toward leveraging the advantages that accrue to both health-care professionals and patients when they can play a meaningful role at medical meetings. ELF was founded in 2001 to raise funds for ERS, an effort that initially failed to launch, Powell said. 15, 2017.

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Top medical communications companies: Choosing the best for events

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Main services: Event management Meeting planning Venue finding Travel booking Content and speaker management Online virtual meetings Online registration websites Amiculum IMAGE LinkedIn Location: Cheshire, UK Year founded: 2001 Description: Amiculum is a MedComms agency that likes to stand out from the crowd.

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5 Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2018

PCMA Convene

The science-fiction movie classic 2001: A Space Odyssey turns 50 in 2018, which means that we’ve been thinking about — and fearing — artificial intelligence for a very long time. As I worked on our January cover story on medical meetings, I took a deep dive into how AI is expected to disrupt health care over the coming years.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. Outside of medical meetings, “those [organizations] that were going to have a meeting, instead of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland [putting on a show], it was the new secretary in the department. Beyond Belief’.

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