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Ms. B’s Book Club: Planning for Medical Meetings

SmartMeetings

Smart Meetings has started a book club to circulate literature with ideas that can connect and inspire meeting professionals and others in the industry. This Month’s Reads: Planning for Medical Meetings Every industry has its own cultural norms and professional values that are expected to be reflected at a company’s event.

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6 Ways Medical Meetings Are Proving Their Value To Exhibitors

PCMA Convene

As a result, medical meetings are finding other ways to demonstrate their value to current and prospective exhibitors. From beacon-collected data to lead scanners to third-party evaluations, here’s how two medical meetings are tackling the exhibitor ROI challenge. That’s a difficult thing to put an ROI on.”.

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How Medical Meetings Can Help A Broken U.S. Healthcare System

PCMA Convene

Johnston has some ideas for how to address that, beginning with the way in which phycisians are trained and receive continuing medical attention. This time on the podcast we meet Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. And these interactive approaches are much more labor intensive.

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Rethinking Certification at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

HRS uses the OASIS platform from Coe-Truman Technologies to manage its speaker invitations, abstract submissions, and CME offerings. Those questions came from the speakers, who sent them to Paschall along with their bios and audiovisual needs. It worked with Coe-Truman to repurpose those tools for pre- and post-tests at MOC sessions.

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‘Hybrid Events Are Here to Stay’

PCMA Convene

The changes brought about by the pandemic have created “the best period” in his long career in the business events industry, said Bill Reed, FASAE, CMP. Here’s how this year’s event will take shape, based on the lessons of 2021: In-person speakers and poster presenters — In 2021, speakers were allowed to be remote due to the pandemic. “We

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Event Case Theory: MGMA’s Leaders Conference

Smart Meetings

This change from a members-only club to a gathering more open to the industry is what became Medical Practice Excellence, created with the goal of making a better healthcare system. When you walk into this room, there won’t be a speaker delivering their wisdom,” he says.

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Surveys: Med/Pharma Meetings are Growing

Smart Meetings

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.