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MANOVA Global Health Care Summit Redefines the Medical Meeting

PCMA Convene

Case in point: Shortly before the conference, he said, “someone stepped forward and asked about hosting a fashion show with designer hospital gowns and scrubs.”. In these ways, MANOVA will continue to break out of the traditional medical-meeting mold. 14–16 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

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‘Hybrid Events Are Here to Stay’

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What Reed, chief event strategy officer, American Society of Hematology (ASH), loved most about this time, he told participants in an online PCMA Community Conversation for medical meeting planners earlier this year, is probably what other planners have hated: “We needed to operate when there was really no roadmap to us,” Reed said. “I

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A Quantum Leap with Freeman’s Quant Data Tool

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“The easiest group to benchmark is medical,” Holsinger said. While we often try to divide them between for-profits and nonprofits, the reality is that the goals of all medical meeting planners are quite similar.”. ‘A A Combination of Human and Machine Learning’. Quant relies on machine learning to do the heavy lifting.

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A Prescription for Disruptive Design

PCMA Convene

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. Design is anchored in the public’s consciousness in ways that are familiar, like graphic design, or fashion design, or interior design.

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Guest View: Image Audiovisuals Pivots During COVID-19 by Dave Mueller, President and Founder

Event Industry News

It was most prominent for medical meetings or events that had many concurrent sessions attendees would have to miss. As the idea of adapting in-person meetings to virtual was starting to swiftly take over the industry, we already had the solution in place with e-Attend.

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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

In almost comical fashion, the website’s homepage proudly displays an image of Paris’ Louvre Museum as an attraction of Manchester — an obvious sign that all is not as it should be.”. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense. In fact, a veteran U.S.-based However, the U.S.-based

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The Future Will See You Now

PCMA Convene

. & YOU, an international digital health congress focused on bringing patients and patient perspectives into medical meetings. You don’t have to go to a live conference anymore to get CME [continuing medical education], which has been the principal reason to come to many medical meetings.