PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Okay, if you’re a meeting professional who works for a medical or health-care organization, it’s not actually a problem for you to imagine any of this. How is it different from standard continuing medical education (CME)? In fact, that’s more or less your job description. But what exactly is MOC, and where did it come from?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The impact and importance of meetings for medical and pharmaceutical industry attendees is not only increasing, but the complexity of the events and what is expected of planners is more demanding as well, according to a new report from American Express Meetings & Events and a survey conducted by Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Read More : Medical Meetings: Temperature Check Ferguson says it’s something her team has wanted to do for years, as it’s important to bring in new and emerging talent. “We The post Event Case Study: Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. In the hospitality/events industry, a weak supply chain means limited product quantities unless you order significantly in advance (and who can predict volume right now?) Top Tips for Navigating the Healthcare Meeting Landscape.

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Connect Your Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Register for “10 Steps to Planning a Hybrid Meeting” Extending your event to the online world can often seem like a daunting task. Speaker Bio: Mahoganey Jones is versatile, results-oriented certified meeting professional and digital event strategist with proven skills and track record in all aspects of meeting management.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 27, 2020

Book your medical meeting at the heart of healthcare innovation and biomedical advancement. Brought to you by: In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. Medical organizations have the opportunity to make use of the PBC’s University of Arizona Center for Simulation and Innovation. Named the “Best Children’s Hospital” by U.S.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 4, 2021

Anderson serves on the board of directors for United States Travel Association (USTA), is an executive committee member of Meetings Mean Business Coalition, co-chair of USTA CEO Roundtable and is a member on Destination International’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. has named Diamond senior meeting manager.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Maritz Travel continues to expand its offerings in the med/pharma meetings arena by launching Maritz Travel Healthcare Solutions this week. Schaumann’s impact in the hospitality industry is far-reaching. Earlier this year, Maritz added Pat Schaumann to its staff as senior director of health care compliance.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

A participant at the American College of Chest Physicians’ CHEST Annual Meeting 2019 runs a probe over an “alien” with magnets in its chest in order to view ultrasound images revealing a cardiac condition. This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. .

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 26, 2017

What they had envisioned was that it was going to be either the medical associations themselves doing this grant process and requesting money to then pay for doctors to come, or on a smaller scale, the hospitals. based medical meetings. Medical meetings for 2018, they pretty much start in February, March.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2019

Top 5 reasons to book medical meetings in the heart of healthcare innovation, biomedical advancement. In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. And, with a diverse portfolio of conference-friendly resorts and access to medical innovation campuses, Phoenix emerging as a cutting-edge destination for medical meetings.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 31, 2020

Faced with a haze of uncertainty, the meeting planner has to make the “go” and “how to go” decisions, but the responsibility to do the right thing is shared by venue, community and guest alike. Many meeting planners are looking to someone else to tell them the right way to plan a successful and safe event. A Pandemic Plan.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 6, 2020

Global DMC Partners (GDP) , a global network of independently owned DMCs and creative event experts, held a virtual open forum , “The Meeting Planner’s New Reality in the ‘New Normal,’” on June 24. More than 700 meeting and event professionals from around the world registered. Catherine Chaulet. 64 percent), the U.K. (10

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

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. ROBOTICS Robotic-assisted surgery has become mainstream in many hospitals, allowing surgeons to operate more precisely. WEARABLES In November, the U.S.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When Kenes Group , a Geneva, Switzerland–based professional conference organizer, shifted to hosting virtual events for its medical and science groups this past April, company leaders knew they needed more insight into the minds of their health-care practitioner (HCP) attendees. It’s the same for virtual.” Graphics courtesy Kenes Group).

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PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2017

When the Society for Simulation in Healthcare chose Orlando to host its International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) — the world’s largest conference dedicated to health-care simulation learning, research, and scholarship — this past January, it wasn’t so attendees would bring along their families to the country’s No. 2pD8Dpq.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The $22 billion contributed by the meetings industry to local, state and federal taxes each year is dependent on the free flow of travel. Travel Association and the CEOs of 13 hospitality companies met Tuesday at the White House with President Donald Trump and senior administration officials. To make that point, U.S.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

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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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 24, 2019

During Convening Leaders last month in Pittsburgh, I — along with about a dozen others, mostly medical meeting planners and a few industry suppliers — witnessed an open-heart surgery. The aneurysm repair was performed at Allegheny General Hospital , a short drive across the river from the David L. Michelle Russell.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

Silber works with clients that include professional organizations, the pharmaceutical and device industries, technology companies and startups, hospitals, and government agencies. & YOU, an international digital health congress focused on bringing patients and patient perspectives into medical meetings.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

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.”. These dodgy meetings are a real danger to our industry’s hard-won reputation.”. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2020

In March, despite the fact that the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) had never before offered an online education component to their annual meeting, the association converted a face-to-face meeting to a virtual one in just seven days. Less Panic, More Design Strategy.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

In real life, unfortunately, often the numbers of doctors in the hospital is lower than [what’s] needed for emergency situations,” said Gaia Santoro, project manager congress division for AIM Group, which organized the event. Gaia Santoro It was ‘an incredible experience both in terms of scientific knowledge and human experience.’.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When Conde Nast Traveler released its latest list of The Best Big Cities in the United States, it could have just as easily been writing about The Best Meeting Cities in the United States. By scouring our online and print archives, I’ve compiled news that planners can use to host events in some of our favorite and best meeting cities.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Walkability, value, and friendliness can be strong drivers for why planners choose certain destinations over others for meetings. If a city can hit on all of those cylinders, it can emerge as a meetings-business champion. And more and more, they’re asking questions about a destination’s local expertise and knowledge base.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Donna Hunt, CEO and managing director for HMS Meeting Services (left), and Yashema Mack. Rebranding is a natural part of the hospitality industry , so much so that we don’t even blink when properties change names or flags. Then she said she was really an independent meeting planner. Hotels do it all the time.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

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. Compare this for a moment to a hospitality experience. I’m married to a physician, and she goes to traditional medical meetings.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

In fact, he tells Convene , hospitals should take a page from the hospitality industry. Hear what other parallels Chang — who will present a Thought Leaders session at PCMA Convening Leaders 2017 in Austin — draws between medicine, medical meetings, and design.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2017

This will cause more private practices to consider partnering or seeking employment with hospital systems or networks. In the new world of value-based care and compensation, private practices will have the most difficulty adjusting their business practices to comply and compete. Uncertain Times.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

At Convene , we’ve made it a year-end tradition to ask ourselves this question: What’s the one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year? . As I worked on our January cover story on medical meetings, I took a deep dive into how AI is expected to disrupt health care over the coming years.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

What makes one meeting professional happy may not be another’s cup of tea. Building relationships with sponsors to help them meet their objectives. Constantly meeting new people. Diversity and varying scope of events and meetings; the mission of the non-profit academic institution that employees me.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Benchmark Hospitality International and Gemstone Hotels & Resorts have merged to become BENCHMARK, a global hospitality company with a new corporate identity and three distinct hotel collections. read more.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Because the meeting and event professionals who are honored are rather young and already quite accomplished. As a “government” meeting planner, I am con-stantly challenged with limited budgets, outdated technology, and long-lasting traditions. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far?

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

FACE TO FACE “We have built a great deal of what I would call coffee time into the meeting,” Gold said. a pediatric critical-care physician at the University of Minnesota’s Masonic Children’s Hospital. It’s more the interaction where there’s power. just allowing that cross-fertilization of inspiration seems to be a helpful thing to do.

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