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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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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

Is there a solution for putting an end to fake and predatory conferences? Sounds like traditional association conferences’ calls for subject matter experts. Fake meetings are not fake news,” he writes. That is to say, fraudulent conferences exist, and they are becoming a real problem for the meetings industry.”.

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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.

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26 Best Mobile Conference and Event Apps + 14 Must-Have Features

Planning Pod

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. Perfect for: Conferences that involve lots of networking and matchmaking among attendees. CrowdCompass from Cvent.

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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. Where do things stand as of now?

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The Future Will See You Now

PCMA Convene

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.” . &

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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. For MGMA’s Medical Practices Excellence Conference, scheduled for Oct.

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