FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LAS VEGAS (Oct. 19, 2016) – Maritz Travel – A Maritz Global Events Company – today announced the launch of Maritz Travel Healthcare Solutions™. This solution brings to market new technology, people and processes to help life science companies deliver better, more compliant medical meeting experiences and simplify their reporting processes.
“We developed Maritz Travel Healthcare Solutions™ in direct response to the most pressing challenges facing medical meeting planners today,” said Maritz Travel President Steve O’Malley. “We’re committed to helping pharmaceutical and medical device companies navigate a complex regulatory climate to deliver better healthcare provider (HCP) experiences and drive results for their companies.”
Through Maritz Travel Healthcare Solutions™, life sciences companies can access:
- Aggregate Spend Reporting – Maritz Travel partnered with Polaris, a leading compliance software company, to develop a user-friendly HCP reporting system for medical meetings management. The system consolidates all HCP expense and event data to provide a user-friendly compliance report for planners to upload into their company’s reporting system.
- Compliance Expertise – Led by the company’s new Senior Director of Healthcare Compliance, Pat Schaumann, Maritz Travel’s certified team of 35+ Healthcare Meetings Compliance Certificate (HMCC) certified professionals have the expertise to deliver a compliant medical meeting and exceptional HCP experience. This compliance expertise complements Maritz Travel’s years of experience serving the healthcare market.
- Comprehensive Processes – The Maritz Travel Healthcare Solutions™ event process starts by understanding a company’s business and regulatory requirements and includes multiple compliance checkpoints throughout the event lifecycle.
“I’ve trained more than a thousand medical meetings professionals through the HMCC program, and heard first-hand about the challenges these companies face,” said Schaumann. “Now, I’m proud to help bring the industry’s most comprehensive solution to market.”
For more information on Maritz Travel Healthcare Solutions™ and additional resources on medical meetings planning, please visit www.maritztravel.com/healthcare.
About Maritz Travel – A Maritz Global Events Company
Maritz Travel is one of the world’s most experienced event management companies. Top meeting planners, sales operations and procurement teams at Fortune 100 companies trust Maritz Travel to deliver meetings, events and incentive travel programs that drive business results. Maritz Travel’s core services include strategic event design, sourcing, logistics, communications, registration and housing, technology, measurement and analysis, and on-site support. Through Maritz Global Events, Maritz Travel is part of an industry-leading family of brands that also includes Experient and Maritz Journeys. For more information about Maritz Travel, visit www.maritztravel.com.
About Maritz Travel Healthcare Solutions™
Maritz Travel Healthcare Solutions™ is a full-service medical meetings and events provider. We help medical device and pharmaceutical companies deliver compliant HCP meeting experiences and streamline reporting processes.
We understand that managing meetings and events in the healthcare industry isn’t easy. Today’s regulations add risk, increase the cost of doing business and complicate the planning process.
Maritz Travel Healthcare Solutions™ has the experience, expertise and technology capabilities to help companies meet these challenges. In 2015 alone, we managed more than 2,000 healthcare meetings (domestically and globally), including product launches, advisory boards, investigator meetings and speaker trainings.
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