Don’t fret if conferences aren’t in your budget
Don’t fret if conferences aren’t in your budget
Internet company offers coverage on-line
Medical conferences are valuable sources of cutting edge innovations in clinical practice. Unfortunately, few case managers have the time or budget to travel to every conference of interest to them. Now, Medscape, an Internet health care information company in New York City (www. medscape.com), recently announced it’s expanding its Next Day Conference Summaries by partnering with leaders in key medical specialties to provide coverage of 15 top medical conferences in 1999.
Medscape has developed the Next Day Conference Summaries program from major medical meetings. Qualified medical experts review the clinical material presented at the conferences and integrate the data into summary articles to help clinicians understand the impact of new information on clinical practice.
These expert-written summaries, posted the morning after each day of the conference, are available at no charge to readers worldwide. "Medscape’s conference summaries have been read by tens of thousands of individuals who were unable to attend the meetings," says Steve Smith, editorial director at Medscape. "Expert summaries from medical meetings are one of the compelling information features we offer our readers. The level of readership we are seeing is strong evidence that clinicians turn to Medscape for their state-of-the-art medical information."
Medscape has been providing on-line coverage from medical meetings since 1995. Recent medical meeting coverage by Medscape includes:
• 40th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology: http://news.medscape.com/Medscape/CNO/1998/ASH/public/index-ASH.html;
• 21st Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium: http://news.medscape.com/Medscape/CNO/1998/SABCS/public/index-SABCS.html.
Medical meetings Medscape plans to cover in 1999 include:
• American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, Feb. 4-8, Anaheim, CA.
• 49th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology, Mar. 7-10, Anaheim, CA.
• 94th Annual Meeting of American Urological Association, May 1-6, Dallas.
• 153rd Annual Meeting of American Psychiatric Association, May 15-20, Washington, DC.
• Digestive Disease Week 1999, May 15-21, Orlando, FL.
• 34th Annual Meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology, May 16-19, Los Angeles.
• National AIDS Malignancy Conference, May 26-28, Bethesda, MD.
• 9th Annual Clinical Care Options for HIV Symposium, June 3-6, Laguna Niguel, CA.
• 59th Annual Meeting of American Diabetes Association, June 19-22, San Diego.
• American Academy of Family Physicians 1999 Annual Scientific Sessions, Sept. 15-19, Orlando.
• 39th Annual Meeting of Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemother apy, Sept. 26-29, San Francisco.
• American College of Gastroenterology’s Annual Meeting, Oct. 15-20, Phoenix.
• American Heart Association’s 72nd Annual Scientific Sessions, Nov. 7-10, Atlanta.
• 41st Annual Meeting of American Society of Hematology, Dec. 3-7, New Orleans.
The free site provides clinical content in 18 specialty areas, allowing members to access a customized medical home page geared to their area of interest. Medscape features peer-reviewed, full-text articles, continuing medical education programs, and live on-line coverage of conferences and meetings. Through its recent acquisition of Healthcare Communications Group, Medscape provides interactive treatment guides and updates to help clinicians treating HIV and cancer meet the challenges these diseases present.
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