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6 Ways Medical Meetings Are Proving Their Value To Exhibitors

PCMA Convene

The financial health of a medical association often depends on whether its annual convention exhibit floor is sold out. But health-care event organizers face a unique challenge when demonstrating to exhibitors the value of their participation. ATS and RSNA may be frontrunners in this tech among medical events. “We

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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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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? The primary difference is what comes after an event is approved.

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

PCMA Convene

Nowak, a fellow at the Safina Center in Setauket, New York, and McCullagh joined efforts and the “Request a Woman Scientist” database was launched January 2018. Sharing data creates accountability for yourself, and also for other groups and events around you.”. How a Text Group Went Viral.

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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. 1 — conflicts with the U.S. 1 — conflicts with the U.S.-based

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Not-Your-Average Medical Conferences

PCMA Convene

As health care and technology converges, how can medical meetings stay relevant? A sample session title for 2018: “Digital Therapeutics Explode Onto the Scene.”. Organized by the Aspen Institute’s Medicine and Society Program, the event offers continuing medical education credits for physicians and nurses.

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Scleroderma Congress Innovates to Emphasize Patient Participation

PCMA Convene

The 5th Systemic Sclerosis World Congress drew health-care professionals and patients to Bordeaux for parallel conferences in 2018. The 2018 congress, Feb. Over the last five editions of SSWC, new educational formats have been introduced with the goal of making knowledge sharing more effective, and with an emphasis on interactivity.