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Navigating the Meal Caps Maze: HINTS and TIPS from Healthcare Venues

It is not surprising that the question most asked of us at Healthcare Venues, as we do suggest we are subject matter experts, is: “Do you have a webpage that details all the international meal caps and other code detailed guidance for meetings by country” In short,...

Winning Healthcare Meetings and Events: Why Understanding TOV is Non-Negotiable for Venues

At Healthcare Venues we are regularly asked by hotels and venues this question: “How can we receive and convert more enquiries from the Healthcare sector?” My first response is that if Healthcare is a target market, they have come to the right people, as we look  to...

Me v ChatGPT: Meeting and Events Trends for the Healthcare Sector

In this blog, I will share how I tested ChatGPT in order to give you, dear reader, an idea of the product's capabilities.What is ChatGPT? - An Artificial Intelligence chatbot that's capable of actively participating in discussions and generating related answers to...

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

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...

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...

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 meetingsThe 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...

Back catalog of thought leadership and news articles

Where can you find over 130 blog posts, articles, opinion pieces, and help materials from 3Sixty and Healthcare Venues?  The answer ... regrettably, still on the old Healthcare Venues site. We are in the process of transferring and updating this content over the...

Our thought leadership strategy

Developing Thought LeadershipAt 3Sixty and Healthcare Venues we love thought leadership that can have a positive impact on the healthcare meetings eco-system. If you have a blog, white paper, or other content that can help create debate or provide a few answers to the...

3Sixty Explained

 About 3SixtyWe have a lot to say about 3Sixty and its explosive growth in the last two years. We have been honoured to...

New Healthcare Venues Q1, 2022

After almost two and a half years of development we’re into the final moves of the refresh of Healthcare-Venues.com. You can see the work in progress on this website and short video below. We have simplified our compliance assessments Developed a broader 12 level...

Healthcare Venues Strategy Session Announced

Since March we have tried our best to entertain, share thought leadership and support where we can our peers and friends involved in Healthcare sector meetings and events.We now ask for your guidance and support as our last one > isn’t up to it anymore!On these...

Meeting Types for the Healthcare Sector

Many meeting venues have been closed due to the COVID19 pandemic. However, some have become Healthcare Venue in the direct sense of the words. This time its the turn of Wyboston Lakes Resort to be highlighted who have been 'open' since lockdown started and have been...

Article – Are Doctors Really Influenced by the Pharmaceutical Industry?

Interesting Article for those with an interest in business Ethics with a Healthcare sector twist.An initial report did a study of Open Payments data (HCPs (Doctor, nurses) payments from Healthcare companies) against prescriptions issued and found a positive link that...

US: State by State Meal Caps

Important Note: click this link to view a summary of advice, focused on Government officials and gifts and the provision of financial benefits. Healthcare Venues does not include HCPs as "government officials" unless specified otherwise.California - Meals to a...

Healthcare Events Forum – Patient Survey

Through our sister company 3Sixty Event Consulting, we are happy to be creating the content for the Healthcare Events Forum. Especially proud to be working with the attendees to investigate their thoughts as patients producing highlights and a report on the...

IPCAA Compliance Seminar – Some Observations

We took part in the 2018 IPCAA Compliance Seminar. Great meeting as always which prompted us to share some thoughts.Please click here to read how we see the challenges for the meetings and events supply chain and some of the big topics affecting the healthcare sector...

“Pharma” comes out Fighting – The Blame Game

The Healthcare, Life Science and Medical Device industries are often challenged on the compatibility of their role in patient care, with a commercial interest. Simply, many people don’t like the idea of someone “getting rich” on health outcomes. Indeed, there are many...

Changes to French Hospitality Limits Expected

It is expected that CNOM Conseil National de l'Ordre des Médecins (Physicians Council) who manage the approval process for French HCPs to attend meetings, will change significantly the amount of time physicians can work for healthcare companies and raise the limits...

the Andrew Winterburn interview – What does change look like for Healthcare sector meetings?

We managed recently to grab hold of Andrew Winterburn, formally Global Business Director at Ashfield Meetings and Events, as he was flying to and from Dubai on a consulting project, to share with us (and with you) some thoughts on the key topics expected to drive...

Friend or Foe – The Congress Room Booking Conversation

The role of bedroom brokersThe role of bedroom brokers, often referred to as consolidators has popped up on our radar in the last few months, with the question are these organizations friend or foe to medical society and corporate stakeholders who sponsor delegations...

Our Training Programmes Gain Industry Recognition

We are pleased to announce that our Venue Healthcare Champion and Agency Compliance Champion training courses have been recognised with the award of CM-HCP (certified meetings professional - Healthcare) clock hours leading to the only across borders, healthcare sector...

Healthcare-Venues.Com Joins ICE-AWARDS Judging Panel

We are proud to again join the judging panel for the ICE AWARDS 2016.The ICE AWARDS are dedicated to corporate meeting planners, rewarding excellence in delivering meeting programs for internal and external groups in a range of capacities.To see the winners in 2015...

Compliance Benchmarking Session at Meeting Show UK

We are pleased to announce that we will be supporting the Meeting Show UK with a session designed to test your knowledge of Healthcare sector Regulatory Codes and how they are applied to Meetings and Events. It's a bit of fun, minimal PowerPoint (hooray) and a panel...

WRG live, Creative and Events Teams Complete Compliance Training Course

Congratulations to the teams at WRG Live who have completed our compliance training course for specialist Healthcare sector event management agencies.Alanta FoleyAnna ThomsonCharmain StapaneChi SirokoJoanna PowellKatie SpearmanKay CarpenterKaye SweeneyLiz BoothLouise...

How do you know when the meeting you plan is important?

How do you know when the meeting you plan is important?Well the answer can be seen in the recent events in France with the death of 1 man and 4 others left seriously ill after participating in a clinical...

Gemini International Complete Agency Compliance Training Course

International Healthcare meetings specialists Gemini International complete the only dedicated training programme in how to apply sector regulatory codes to meetings and events. To talk to the Gemini teams’ healthcare sector meetings specialists, email here or click...

Transparency Reporting – Experts explain the affects to the M&E supply chain

Transparency reporting is one of the buzz words for the Healthcare sector. So, we asked experts at AMEX, BMI Systems and AHM how do they think this will affect the M&E supply chain, after Healthcare and Life Science companies start to publically report M&E...

Our Agency Compliance Champions get Stamped !

Our educational modules are detailed, testing, and simply hard work. We think rightly so to provide a sense of achievement when our Compliance Champions pass the final exam and re-assessment tests. To mark this, we have created their own stamp which they can proudly...

Event Travel Management Complete our Agency Compliance Champion Course

Congratulations to the team at Event Travel Management who have completed our training course for specialist Healthcare sector event management agencies. Particular congratulations to Lee-Yen who as you can see gained the Compliance Star award at our face to face...

MCI Sign priority status deal with Healthcare-Venues.com

Healthcare-Venues.com is pleased to welcome in 2016 with news of a strategic partnership with the MCI GroupThis partnership will find HCV.com providing all training for regulatory codes for meetings & events to MCI Global, Regional and Local teams, via its...

Is there a battle ahead for the ownership of Healthcare Sector Meetings and Events?

We recently posted an opinion piece on LinkedIn, here we summarised some of the battle grounds, for want of a more accurate phrase, that we believe may change the face of meetings and events in the sector.Compliance to Regulatory codes forms a part of this journey...

Destinations Unlimited – 1st Representation Company to undertake our healthcare sector training programme

Destinations Unlimited - 1st Representation Company to undertake our healhcare sector training programmeDestinations UNLIMTED, the DMC Representation Company is proud to announce that its global team has recently undertaken the training programme Understanding the...

Carlson Rezidor UK & Ireland launch Healthcare sector packages

To support their recent training programme to create a Venue Healthcare Champion in each of their 45 hotels in the UK & Ireland, the Carlson Rezidor group have created sector specific packages, to demonstrate their suitability for corporate and medical society...

Compliance Code Support Launched

We are pleased to announce a new solutionA new solution providing corporate organizations, specialist agencies and medical societies access to a range of healthcare sector regulatory code support services, focused on its application to meetings and events.Code...

On-line Training Portal Launched for Healthcare Sector Meetings and Events

After a 6-month development phaseWe are proud and “exhausted” to announce the 1st phase launch of our on-line training portal. This sophisticated learning management system allows us to support our partners in providing on-demand education for meetings and events....
Healthcare Venues Strategy Session Announced

Healthcare Venues Strategy Session Announced

Since March we have tried our best to entertain, share thought leadership and support where we can our peers and friends involved in Healthcare sector meetings and events.We now ask for your guidance and support as our last one > isn’t up to it anymore!On these...

Meeting Types for the Healthcare Sector

Meeting Types for the Healthcare Sector

Many meeting venues have been closed due to the COVID19 pandemic. However, some have become Healthcare Venue in the direct sense of the words. This time its the turn of Wyboston Lakes Resort to be highlighted who have been 'open' since lockdown started and have been...

US: State by State Meal Caps

US: State by State Meal Caps

Important Note: click this link to view a summary of advice, focused on Government officials and gifts and the provision of financial benefits. Healthcare Venues does not include HCPs as "government officials" unless specified otherwise.California - Meals to a...

Changes to French Hospitality Limits Expected

Changes to French Hospitality Limits Expected

It is expected that CNOM Conseil National de l'Ordre des Médecins (Physicians Council) who manage the approval process for French HCPs to attend meetings, will change significantly the amount of time physicians can work for healthcare companies and raise the limits...

Compliance Benchmarking Session at Meeting Show UK

Compliance Benchmarking Session at Meeting Show UK

We are pleased to announce that we will be supporting the Meeting Show UK with a session designed to test your knowledge of Healthcare sector Regulatory Codes and how they are applied to Meetings and Events. It's a bit of fun, minimal PowerPoint (hooray) and a panel...

Our Agency Compliance Champions get Stamped !

Our Agency Compliance Champions get Stamped !

Our educational modules are detailed, testing, and simply hard work. We think rightly so to provide a sense of achievement when our Compliance Champions pass the final exam and re-assessment tests. To mark this, we have created their own stamp which they can proudly...

Compliance Code Support Launched

Compliance Code Support Launched

We are pleased to announce a new solutionA new solution providing corporate organizations, specialist agencies and medical societies access to a range of healthcare sector regulatory code support services, focused on its application to meetings and events.Code...

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