PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

As health care and technology converges, how can medical meetings stay relevant? The number of medicine-focused conferences that bring in a wide range of disciplines and diverse audiences is growing. The post Not-Your-Average Medical Conferences appeared first on PCMA Convene.

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MAY 11, 2023

And by leveraging the latest event technology, they can make sure your message is reaching its intended audience with maximum impact. And they’ll make sure your event technology engages HCPs and adheres to all pharma compliance regulations at the same time. Get our ultimate list.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2017

Changing compliance codes in Europe regulating medical-device companies are expected to have a major effect on U.S.-based based medical conferences — and to continue to do so for years to come. Medical conferences should brace themselves for an impact,” Andrade said.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 11, 2022

just as the difference between a good event and a great event can be finding the perfect venue, finding event technology where their 20% difference lines up with your 20% difference can make…all the difference in the world. Nowhere is that more evident than in the world of medical and financial meeting and event planning.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 20, 2024

Courtesy EUSEM) Create More of a Buzz in the Exhibit Hall Davi Kaur “The exhibition is a sacred cow at medical meetings,” said Davi Kaur , CEO of the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM). Kaur said delegates at medical meetings value the opportunity to learn about new treatments and devices.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2020

This is likely to be that year for scores of meeting professionals: When Convene surveyed planners in early April, an overwhelming majority — 70 percent — said that they had moved or planned to move some or all of their content to digital platforms. For MGMA’s Medical Practices Excellence Conference, scheduled for Oct.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 27, 2020

Book your medical meeting at the heart of healthcare innovation and biomedical advancement. Brought to you by: In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. Medical organizations have the opportunity to make use of the PBC’s University of Arizona Center for Simulation and Innovation.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. or options don’t exist—those linens or new conference tables may just not be available. Good news: corporate travel and events are back! Bad news: the supply chain isn’t. And neither is the supply of talented staff.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The new code — which Associate Editor Casey Gale wrote about a few months ago — prohibits MedTech Europe’s member companies from directly sponsoring a health-care provider’s attendance at a medical conference or other event. based medical meetings. 1 — conflicts with the U.S. Where do things stand as of now?

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PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2017

When the Society for Simulation in Healthcare chose Orlando to host its International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) — the world’s largest conference dedicated to health-care simulation learning, research, and scholarship — this past January, it wasn’t so attendees would bring along their families to the country’s No.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, I expect to see speaker lineups at conferences and conventions feature a range of voices outside the old-school white male CEO mold. 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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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Alice Brouhard was no stranger to medical conferences. But she never imagined her family’s life could be so deeply affected by not just one conference, but two — one that she attended and the other that she founded and organized. That totally, totally came from the conference, which was great.”. POWERFULLY IN PERSON.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Especially in medicine and health care, maybe the most incremental yet desperate-to-change-the-world field of all — how would you build a conference specifically dedicated to groundbreaking, trailblazing, lifesaving innovations? 2017 Breakthrough Thinking Conference. Wellness Panel at the Breakthrough Thinking Conference.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

In many cases, bigger isn’t always better: cars, personal technology, portion size — and, increasingly, cities. Walkability, value, and friendliness can be strong drivers for why planners choose certain destinations over others for meetings. If a city can hit on all of those cylinders, it can emerge as a meetings-business champion. “The

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

When the Western Veterinary Conference (WVC) bought land adjacent to its Las Vegas headquarters about 10 years ago, the purchase was regarded as an investment. And meetings are still the primary way to do that. Which is why WVC isn’t the only such group building its own conference space. . Oquendo Center in Las Vegas.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 24, 2019

During Convening Leaders last month in Pittsburgh, I — along with about a dozen others, mostly medical meeting planners and a few industry suppliers — witnessed an open-heart surgery. There’s no direct connection between this program and medical meetings. Michelle Russell. Lawrence Convention Center.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

At DIH, innovative thinking is applied to an array of health-care settings and deliverables, from buildings to interfaces — and possibly in the future, medical meetings. The design of technology dictates how effective someone’s workflow might be. The design of technology dictates how effective someone’s workflow might be.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Building relationships with sponsors to help them meet their objectives. Challenging every month, need to learn new technologies and better myself in order to deliver expected requirements. Medical meeting industry is challenging! Meeting attendees that we have gotten to know over the years. Negotiating contracts.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 12, 2016

Jouaneh, is a meetings expert who regularly contributes to Smart Meetings news. He’s quoted in our August issue about American Express Meetings & Events’ recent medical meetings report. He was also a featured writer in our January issue with a technology column on mobile strategies. Corbin Ball.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

As a “government” meeting planner, I am con-stantly challenged with limited budgets, outdated technology, and long-lasting traditions. I am pushed to find creative solutions to keep our meetings fresh and engaging for all of those who attend. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? Derek Anderson.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 17, 2017

At the conference, CFNU used the app to send “issue alerts,” asking the 1,200 nurses who attended the conference — whose theme was “Speak Up!” — to reach out to elected officials concerning particular legislation. It was easy to see the expertise and experience [CTCC] has in holding national and international conferences,” Silas said.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is world-renowned for its engineering and mathematical achievements and Tufts University has a magnificent school of medicine. The technology sector and medical meetings are booming in Boston now, according to Moscaritolo. to speak there every year.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

When Dr. Leslie Kernisan, a geriatrician who practices in San Francisco, first attended the Stanford Medicine X conference at Stanford University in 2013, the most remarkable innovations she encountered, she later recalled, weren’t in tech advances or brilliant breakthroughs in research. on Sunday, Sept. All photos courtesy of Medicine X.

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Planning Pod

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Enter the importance of the mobile event app in the realm of event technology. However, before you jump on the mobile conference app bandwagon, think about what you really need. Here’s a quick rundown on 26 of the most popular and best mobile conference apps, in alphabetical order. App info can be accessed offline.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2016

Imagine walking into a major international medical meeting and finding your afternoon session transformed into an intellectual, public-health version of a murder-mystery dinner party. Innovative meeting experiences are about engagement, Richardson said, and about storytelling. million deaths a year. AFTER THE OUTBREAK.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

We traced MOC back through the decades — from first introduction to physician response — and found out how Paschall and other meeting professionals have successfully added it to their conference offerings. That’s where MOC programs come in — and, by extension, the meetings and conferences where those programs are offered.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Our smallest division, Systems Integrations (think installing conference room technology), was the only one bringing in revenue. It was most prominent for medical meetings or events that had many concurrent sessions attendees would have to miss. So, now what? How do we save our business?

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

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. Navy and U.S.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 2, 2021

How could you replace a printed conference booklet? Medical meetings? A decade or so ago, despite brave event-planning souls paving the way, very few event apps were on the market—a handful, really. There was a surprising amount of hand-wringing, however. What if your phone battery dies? What if my venue doesn’t have Wi-Fi?”

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting. Fun” is not the usual adjective used to describe an educational session at a medical meeting. 3,000 attendees. Why a book club?

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

How does that play out at meetings — and what can you do to minimize it? Late one Thursday night last March, attendees at Microsoft’s 2016 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco looked forward to unwinding after a full program. It’s called unconscious bias. “Biases can begin at a very young age.”

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

may be spilling into the events industry, including attendance to medical meetings. From the Trump administration’s “America First” agenda to new medical meeting regulations, a number of issues are being blamed for keeping international doctors from attending medical meetings in the United States.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

and a specialist in the future of medicine, Bertalan Meskó has attended hundreds of conferences and events devoted to medicine and health care. But if medical conferences have tended to stay the same, the ground around them is beginning to shake. in genomics and writes and speaks as “The Medical Futurist.” Bertelan Meskó.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 2, 2024

That said, medical meetings may be among the meetings most likely to be impacted. Among those peering into a crystal ball to attempt to pinpoint the future for medical meetings is Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC. If profits also lower as a result, so might budgets for medical meetings and congresses.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Trump prepares to take office, event organizers must consider the effects of his policies and appointments on the medical meetings industry. I’ve been getting many inquiries about the future of medical meetings under the new Trump administration. This may affect the budgets available for medical meetings and congresses.

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