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6 Ways Medical Meetings Are Proving Their Value To Exhibitors

PCMA Convene

“And if they’re writing scripts, we don’t necessarily know whether it was because of our conference or another conference or direct-to-consumer advertising.”. Orders for medical devices are no easier to trace, considering the lengthy purchasing timelines for costly equipment. That’s a difficult thing to put an ROI on.”.

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MANOVA Global Health Care Summit Redefines the Medical Meeting

PCMA Convene

In August 2018, when Mark Addicks was in the midst of planning his first-ever event, the MANOVA Global Health Summit, he was determined to make it a dramatic departure from the typical medical conference. “We In these ways, MANOVA will continue to break out of the traditional medical-meeting mold.

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ICC Wales strengthens position as an exciting new destination for UK medical conferences

Prestige Events Magazine

10 medical conferences due to take place at South Wales venue in 2023/2024 ICC Wales , Wales’s first dedicated convention centre, will be hosting a series of medical conferences that will support the post-pandemic recovery of the in-person medical meetings sector and highlight the venue’s pivotal role in the recovery of the UK Meetings Industry.

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How Will The EFPIA Disclosure Code Change Medical Meetings?

PCMA Convene

The aim of the code was to provide patients with insight into dealings between pharmaceutical companies and physicians, including details on when companies would foot the bill for doctors to attend medical conferences. But the Disclosure Code ultimately had no significant impact on participation at medical meetings.

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Not-Your-Average Medical Conferences

PCMA Convene

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. A sample session title for 2018: “Digital Therapeutics Explode Onto the Scene.”.

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How Do You Solve the ‘Manel’ Problem for Medical Meetings?

PCMA Convene

Of the top 12 excuses given by conference organizers to explain why female speakers are underrepresented in — or absent altogether from — their meeting programs, the leading one is this: “We know we have no women. Adobe Stock/Good Studio). Meanwhile, another member of the 500 Women Scientists network, Katarzyna Nowak, who holds a Ph.D.

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

PCMA Convene

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. Andrade says this won’t be the case for 2018.