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MANOVA Global Health Care Summit Redefines the Medical Meeting

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Addicks found a cast of government officials, business owners, and media leaders who also were ready to take a leap. The program was designed to more broadly define health care, bringing together companies not typically associated with a medical conference: Facebook, Verizon, and CNBC, to name a few.

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Why This Medical Meeting Simulated a Crisis

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Imagine walking into a major international medical meeting and finding your afternoon session transformed into an intellectual, public-health version of a murder-mystery dinner party. Mind you, these people were very high-level government officials. million deaths a year. AFTER THE OUTBREAK.

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Childcare at Events Remains Expensive and Still Hard to Come By

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Lyons said that most of her returning clients are association and government organizations, with corporate business lagging. I see this in my own family – my daughter and her husband are both surgeons, and their decisions on which medical meetings to attend are determined by what’s available for the kids.”.

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Not-Your-Average Medical Conferences

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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. Some of the most influential — and one newcomer to watch — include: TEDMED , Nov. CES Digital Health Summit , Jan.

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Maritz Expands Solutions for Med/Pharma Meetings

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She served on the Convention Industry Council Healthcare Certification Governance Committee, helping develop the rigid CMP-HC certification. I’ve trained more than a thousand medical meetings professionals through the HMCC program, and heard first-hand about the challenges these companies face,” Schaumann says.

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6 Technological Breakthroughs That Will Change Health Care

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Breakthroughs in health care that sounded like science fiction just a few years ago are rapidly becoming reality — and can be expected to have an impact on medical meetings. Eventually the technology will be used to manufacture everything from organs to medicine to medical equipment.

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Q&A with Tori Barnes on Advocating for Bold Action

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Meetings support many other parts of the economy through business trade shows, scientific conferences and medical meetings. Those hard workers lost their livelihoods, customers and revenues through no fault of their own. We have also lost the mental health that comes with anticipation of travel.

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