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How Will The EFPIA Disclosure Code Change Medical Meetings?

PCMA Convene

But the Disclosure Code ultimately had no significant impact on participation at medical meetings. Europe’s pursuit of transparency in health care continues, now moving on to the medical-device industry. How will it affect medical meetings? Effective Jan. What is changing? They’re going to follow the guidelines.

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How Will Europe’s New MedTech Guidelines Affect Your Meetings?

PCMA Convene

ABTS is laying the groundwork to prepare associations, so they don’t encounter massive losses to meetings with high numbers of international medical-technology sponsorships. Direct sponsorship of health-care professionals is no longer going to happen, regardless of whether the meeting is pre-vetted or not.”.

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A Problem With MedTech Codes — and a Possible Solution

PCMA Convene

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. Medical meetings for 2018, they pretty much start in February, March.

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A Quantum Leap with Freeman’s Quant Data Tool

PCMA Convene

The visual dashboard was a PCMA sponsorship activation of Freeman’s Quant tool, a platform intended to provide real-time data and analysis for events professionals. The easiest group to benchmark is medical,” Holsinger said. A Combination of Human and Machine Learning’. Quant relies on machine learning to do the heavy lifting.

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Embracing the Digital Opportunity

PCMA Convene

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. Solving for Pricing, Sponsorships, and Skills Challenges When Going Digital ”. “

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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

Convene sent email inquiries to individuals in charge of sponsorship and speaking opportunities at iPharma, scheduled for Aug. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense. 5–7, 2020, but did not receive a response.). It wasn’t Valko’s last encounter with this kind of event.

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ASM Microbe Makes Its Debut

PCMA Convene

ASM decided to merge the two conferences because attendance and sponsorship at ICAAC had been falling for several years. The goal for ASM Microbe 2016 was 10,000 to 12,000 attendees, drawn as evenly as possible from the General Meeting and ICAAC communities.

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