Recording and Maintaining attendance at events, and reporting attendance to CME

Attendance Recording and Reporting

Currently, options for recording attendance include good ole paper sign-in sheets, badge scanning, and badge swipe. Swipes and scans:

Option Advantages Disadvantages
Pen and paper
  • Low cost
  • Slow
  • Requires additional input to convert to electronic format
Badge scan
  • Fast
  • Less additional administrative work needed
  • Requires additional investment
Badge swipe
  • Less additional administrative work needed
  • Slow (compared to scanning)
  • Requires additional investment
RFID
  • Fastest
  • Less additional administrative work needed

  • Requires additional investment
  • Requires participants to carry extra hardware