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

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.” – Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. healthcare system is broken. Johnston has some ideas for how to address that, beginning with the way in which phycisians are trained and receive continuing medical attention. Listen: [link]. Illustration by Selman Designs.

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4 Treatments for Medical Meetings

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Moving forward, doctors and health-care systems will be encouraged to have better coordinated care that focuses on patient wellness and prevention. What does that mean for professional medical conferences? If these waves of change haven’t affected your medical meetings’ business model yet, it’s just a matter of time.

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Event Case Study: Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo

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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 Every year, we have a group of volunteers that source the raffle prizes and take pride in bringing new items.

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Rethinking Certification at Medical Meetings

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A small sampling of comments on a website dedicated to reforming the board recertification process (official name: Change Board Recertification) includes: “MOC is, for lack of a better term, a farce that does not improve upon the existing continuing medical education system.” No one is more aware of that confusion than ABMS.

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Event Case Theory: MGMA’s Leaders Conference

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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. We think that that can be part of a bigger conversation about how to change the system, and how to make it better,” he says.

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Maritz Expands Solutions for Med/Pharma Meetings

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As director of professional development for the Meeting Professionals International health care sector, she founded its Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate (HMCC) program, which helps med/pharma meetings planners understand basic compliance principles.

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A Quantum Leap with Freeman’s Quant Data Tool

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It offered a real-time glimpse of a number of pieces of data about the audience, including how they rated the content and speakers, whether it was their first time at the convention, and other information about the name-badge-wearing colleagues next to them in session rooms. The easiest group to benchmark is medical,” Holsinger said.