http://blog.meetingsnet.com/capsules Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:26:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lesley Bainbridge, BSR (PT), Med, PhD, with the University of British Columbia, gave an interesting keynote on teaching interprofessional collaboration in healthcare, a hot topic for a few years now. She started out with a not-shocking-but-nonetheless-horrifying statistic: 70 percent to 80 percent of medical errors are caused by poor communication ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/capsules/2012/01/23/monday-acehp12-keynote-lesley-bainbridge/ How did I get so behind in posting about this conference so fast? I'm sitting in the general assembly ballroom waiting for Monday's keynote to begin and I haven't even gotten to yesterday's yet! So this is going to be sketchy, but Louis Diamond, MD, president of Quality Healthcare Consultants ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/capsules/2012/01/23/sundays-morning-keynote-at-the-alliance-for-continuing-education-in-the-health-professions-acehp/ Outgoing president George Mejicano kicked things off at the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions annual meeting with a quick walk-through of the work that ACEHP has done in the past year. In addition to changing its name (Mejicano revealed a new logo with the wave of a ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/capsules/2012/01/23/sundays-opening-general-session-at-acehp12/ My first full day at the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions annual conference, going on now in Orlando, was packed. Some notes on the meeting as a meeting. I'll get the whining out of the way first: -Yes, I already have stuffed-brain syndrome from having way too much thrown ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/capsules/2012/01/23/sunday-at-the-alliance-for-insert-really-long-new-name-formerly-cme-aka-acehp12/ http://blog.meetingsnet.com/capsules/2012/01/20/whats-up-at-acehp12-aka-the-alliance-for-continuing-education-in-the-health-professions-annual-conference/ Finally, a clean, clear, forthright discussion on the potential for conflicts of interest in continuing medical education, and how to minimize the risk that COI will negatively affect CME, brought to you by the good folks at CME Peer Review, LLC, an independent CME review organization. You'll see a lot ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/capsules/2012/01/20/the-bottom-line-on-conflicts-of-interest/ Today’s CMEChat on Twitter (held every Wednesday at 11 am Eastern) was a fun romp through what people do to prepare for a monster meeting like the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education’s (now called the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions). Once we learned the conference’s Twitter hashtag (#acehp12) ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/capsules/2012/01/18/cmechat-pre-alliance-meeting-version/ I spend a lot of time with continuing medical education providers, but not so much with the meeting planners who make those meetings at which the CME is conducted happen, so it was fascinating to have the chance to sit in on a frank discussion of what their biggest challenges ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/capsules/2012/01/12/1431/ A survey conducted by MDlinx earlier this month came up with some shouldn't-be-unexpected results: That a quarter of the docs surveyed say they're seeing the quality of their continuing medical education activities decrease as pharma pumps fewer dollars into commercially supporting CME. Two-thirds didn't notice any change, and a scant ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/capsules/2011/12/23/survey-says-some-docs-see-quality-slide-as-commercial-support-declines/ Some pretty big news came out last week while I was in San Diego for our West Coast Life Sciences Meeting Management Forum: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a proposed rule designed to increase public awareness of financial relationships between drug and device manufacturers and certain healthcare ... http://blog.meetingsnet.com/capsules/2011/12/22/cmss-new-rules-around-the-sunshine-act/