m&i Healthcare Forum, Helsinki Finland 11-13 February 2020  MEETING REPORT

m&i Healthcare Forum, Helsinki Finland 11-13 February 2020 MEETING REPORT

m&i Healthcare Forum, Helsinki Finland 11-13 February 2020 MEETING REPORT

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As we met in Finland little did we know that a few thousand miles away a virus was about to change the world.

In our own modest way we were considering the planning of meetings and events for the Healthcare sector and what might be “better”.

We concluded that …

“There needs to be an extensive re-think in the way that we structure the planning of meetings. As meeting professionals, we need to embrace complexity in planning and delivery to create new processes that communicate meeting objectives, integrating each stakeholder into a new style project team, focused on addressing the needs of meeting outcomes. We have no time to waste to start to match the educational needs of the healthcare professional community.

Read more by downloading the report or contact us to chat about the topics or how to get involved in future forums.

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Quality over Quantity – a progressive approach to find the right venue for your meetings.

Quality over Quantity – a progressive approach to find the right venue for your meetings.

In this report we challenge how we are finding venues for meetings.

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Educational Visit: with growing event agency Activate and Healthcare sector specialists Park Plaza Hotels

Educational Visit: with growing event agency Activate and Healthcare sector specialists Park Plaza Hotels

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Educational visits are brilliant … one of our favorite interactions. Education and a bit of fun in a package. Bringing meetings partners together in a high-value engagement.

Read more from the stakeholders…..

Ken Carter, Client Services Director at Activate hosted Simon Beard of Healthcare-Venues.com and Patrick Brady of Park Plaza Hotels to roll out one of our Educational Visits. During the session, we shared recent “compliance” changes and used case studies to understand the perceptions and actions when considering compliance for meetings and events.

Format: in-person
Duration: 2 hours

Outcomes:

  1. Instruct new team members in the growing Activate business on the fundamentals of healthcare compliance, using case studies to deliver content that is aligned with the company’s role.
  2. Incorporate Park Plaza healthcare meetings capability solutions into training content, ensuring alignment with key meeting types and operational best practices.

Thank you Simon & Patrick for taking the time to come and visit us. We really appreciated the insight and learning gained from the compliance training and the updates on Park Plaza Hotels – and yes, it was a lot of fun!

Ken Carter
Client Services Director –Activate Events

It was great to be back in the Activate Events  office with Healthcare Venues.  The interactive sessions that Simon runs are a great and unique way of building rapport with our clients, whilst developing our knowledge of compliance and how it’s applied in the pharmaceutical events world

Patrick Brady
Account Director – Park Plaza Hotels Europe

These sessions are all about ROI. Refresher training for the experienced and baseline training for those new to meeting compliance.  Sponsors engage with their clients through a shared learning experience and we all have fun being part of it

Simon Beard
Compliance Consultant – Healthcare Venues

Want to hear more about our Educational Visits and how they can help your business contact us for more information.

 

About Activate Events

We are not an agency with ready-made answers. Instead, we are a team of professional event strategists and planners who know better, who care, and who try harder than most. Together, we design experiences from concept to implementation. It is fair to say that we have a genuine ‘go above and beyond customer service ethos, but we are also a hugely unassuming organisation. This mentality fuels our hunger to be the best, and thus serves you as well as us. It is why we apply an almost forensic attention to detail in our proposals and the execution of our events. It is why we are agile, anticipating potential obstacles and diffusing them before they turn into real problems.

About Park Plaza Hotels

Park Plaza hotels offer contemporary-styled hotels, focusing on meetings and events in flagship properties located in city centre locations. 

About 3Sixty Event Consulting 

Whether you’re a corporate healthcare organisation, an agency, meeting venue, destination or medical society, we’re the independent, intelligent connection you’ve been looking for to navigate the complexities of the healthcare meetings sector. Our experts will help you master the healthcare meetings matrix, linking you with the movers and shakers of the sector, collaborating on best practice, sharing cutting-edge thinking, and providing expert strategy support and training in compliance, meeting design and delivery. Bringing healthcare meeting communities together in an interactive eco-system of best practice, and better healthcare meetings throughout the product lifecycle.

About Healthcare Venues

Healthcare Venues is an innovative meeting planning solution for meetings and events in the healthcare sector. Use the venue’s rigorous, independent compliance assessment for meeting approvals, work with trained specialists when planning your meetings, and consider the venue’s capabilities for meetings specifically for the healthcare sector.

Partnership announced between PR Medical Events and Healthcare Venues

Partnership announced between PR Medical Events and Healthcare Venues

Healthcare venues and PR medical events partner to take the grey out of medical society congress room block compliance approval.

We are delighted to announce a partnership between Healthcare Venues and PR Medical Events, who will contribute their healthcare sector knowledge of the global medical congress environment, to the platform’s new venue compliance index and tools for corporate compliance specialists and meeting planners. The index, and broader platform benefits will be integrated into PR Medical Events’ compliance process to support their clients when selecting code appropriate venues. The upgraded Healthcare Venues solutions will be launched in Q3, 2022

About PR Medical Events

PR Medical Events, is a fast-growing agency providing accommodation and group travel and logistical solutions for worldwide medical congresses and conferences.

PR Medical Events

PR Medical Events are a team of multi-cultural, passionate, and creative event professionals who understand the value of brand equity providing Quality Group Travel Services to Worldwide Medical Congresses.

Our professional relationships with reliable partners, suppliers, agencies, and hotels, allow us to provide pharmaceutical companies, doctors, pharmacists, agencies, and business delegates full destination management services.

We understand that your event must be considered a success by any measure and we manage every detail to provide unforgettable experiences.

PRM maintains a strong position as a “provider of choice” by orchestrating events flawlessly and ensuring our client objectives are met in a profitable and memorable way.

We understand our clientele’s needs, that is why every single group has dedicated coordinators that can be reached at any time, before and on-site, to ensure that any of your queries and all of our services are delivered in the personal and professional manner which set us apart.

Industry bodies issue guidance on virtual and hybrid meetings by medical societies

Industry bodies issue guidance on virtual and hybrid meetings by medical societies

IFPMA, EFPIA and PhRMA have updated their joint guidance for virtual medical society meetings

The guidance, focused on medical society virtual / hybrid meetings can be seen here in more detail with a Q&A document here.

3Sixty thoughts: 

More very welcome guidance upgraded since the 2020 issue now including Hybrid meetings which are expected, by industry and societies, to be the dominant form of “congress” moving forward.

What caught our eye?

1. The new (ish) IFPMA ethos was reinforced in the document. Why do we think this is important? Well, the Ethos outlines a code based not solely on rules but one framed in; integrity, values and principles. The result? more subjective decision making o identify is something the right thing to do! If your organisation has not already defined how this impacts the part you play in the creation and planning of meetings and ensured your teams are ready then you’re behind the game … 

2.  Guidance is applied to international meetings, defined as medical associations/societies involving HCPs from multiple countries. National meetings are not “in-scope” we tend to use the Congress Vetting System (CVS) criteria when determining what is a national and international medical society meeting.

3. The code (international, regional or national) still applies even if they were written with in-person meetings in mind. Note sections on an events educational value, medicine promotion, certification (see ABPI clause 8 to see how the UK handles this), destination and venue selection in the case of in-person formats as a few examples of how to still apply the code. Reminder, every meeting supported by industry must include a written rationale outlining the reason industry is supporting a meeting in the rush to plan the tactic this can be overlooked.

4. The route to apply the right code and label to a meeting has been strengthened, reminding industry not to rely on medical societies / congresses to determine the applicable code to a meeting but to take that into their own hands.  This is another reason why there should be a stronger link during planning between medical societies, industry and PCO’s pooling knowledge and communicating as a collective how the code applies to meetings.