Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that it has acquired Healthcare Data Management, Inc. Effective immediately, the company will become part of the Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition of Healthcare Data Management will enhance current efforts to remove healthcare waste, make cost and quality more transparent, and support the current and future compliance needs of the payer market. Additionally, the acquisition strengthens Thomson Reuters audit and payment integrity capabilities including, but not limited to medical, prescription drug, provider, eligibility, and plan design. Healthcare Data Management was a pioneer in the establishment of modeling employee health benefit plans and using data-driven metrics to monitor plan performance. The company is currently one of the leading independent resources for maximising the value and accountability of self-insured health benefit plans that are managed by plan administrators and pharmacy benefit managers. Search for more Healthcare related information To access our daily STM news feed through your iPhone, iPad, or other smartphones, please visit www.myscoope.com for a mobile friendly reading experience.
The Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier firm engaged in developing clinical practice guidelines for healthcare, has announced that its 19th International Conference will take place January 19-22, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco. The conference will highlight the innovations and substantial progress healthcare professionals are making in bridging evidence-based clinical content, partnerships and technology for a healthy integrated healthcare system. Executive leaders, clinicians, researchers, educators and innovators will be able to network and actively engage with key decision makers and discuss professional practice, culture transformation, and meaningful health information technology adoption in a dynamic conference community, representing nearly 300 healthcare settings. The 19th International Conference will include keynote addresses by Bonnie Wesorick, CPMRC Founder and Chairman Emeritus; Dr. Connie White Delaney, appointed member of the US National Health Information Technology Policy Committee; Dr. David Brailer, former National Health Information Technology Coordinator; and Michelle Troseth, CPMRC Executive Vice President and Chief Professional Practice Officer. In addition, attendees can look forward to more than 60 member presentations and educational workshops covering a wide range of topics related to practice, education, technology adoption, physician and team engagement, evidence-based tools and outcomes. New at the 2011 conference is the Innovation Jamboree, an opportunity for attendees to share and test innovations about healthcare, culture, professional practice and technology. Attendees will include members of diverse rural, community, academic and health system hospitals and healthcare organisations that are active members of the CPMRC International Consortium, as well as others interested in creating the best places to give and receive healthcare. Search for more conferences To access our daily STM news feed through your iPhone, iPad, or other smartphones, please visit www.myscoope.com for a mobile friendly reading experience.
JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform arm of the not-for-profit ITHAKA, recently released a new interface. One feature of the new interface - the ability for any user to submit a search against all JSTOR content - has reportedly drawn strong reactions from many in the library community. The key concern expressed was that JSTOR users at participating institutions with a subset of JSTOR collections could get search results pointing to content they could not access; and that JSTOR had not yet enabled OpenURL for all articles, making it difficult for libraries to use link resolvers to re-direct users to other copies of the articles that might be available to them. In response, JSTOR will issue an update to the interface changes released in August. Beginning September 2, the default option for authenticated users on all search forms will be to search licensed content only. Authenticated users include users on campus or users logged in via a remote access option. The reason for taking this step is to reduce any potential frustration for authenticated users until JSTOR extends support for OpenURL linking throughout the platform. At that point, librarians will be able to direct their users to alternative options for accessing content not licensed through JSTOR. For authorised users at participating institutions, the checkbox for 'Include only content I can access' on the Advanced Search form will be selected by default. Individual users will be able to deselect the checkbox if they wish to search across all content. Other JSTOR search forms - the new basic search box on each page, the Citation Locator, and search within a journal - will also default to searching only licensed content. After receiving search results for any search, any user may still elect to view all results for all content including unlicensed content. Search for more Search/Discovery/Data Retrieval tools and services To access our daily STM news feed through your iPhone, iPad, or other smartphones, please visit www.myscoope.com for a mobile friendly reading experience.
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that it is eliminating fees for basic submission to ProQuest Dissertation &Theses Database through its ProQuest/UMI ETD Administrator. According to the company, use of the ETD Administrator - with its simple, paper-free, online process - has grown significantly and now accounts for 60 percent of submissions. An assessment of ProQuest's cost structure revealed workflow efficiencies as use has increased and the resulting cost savings are being passed along to users. About 99 percent of North American graduate degree-granting institutions contribute their graduate students' works to the ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Database, enabling them to be easily discovered and accessed. Submission through the ETD Administrator has revolutionised the process, making it twice as fast and providing a significantly easier experience by eliminating the need to box and ship paper copies of each dissertation or thesis. ProQuest/UMI ETD Administrator is designed to support the needs of universities as well as students. Participating institutions have their own customised Administrator that guides students through the process of uploading their graduate works and providing all relevant information. An alert is sent to the school's designated contact when each student submission is complete, providing an opportunity to review the submission before it ultimately goes to ProQuest. The ETD Administrator contains the ability for a university to create customised checklists and tags, among other functionality, that tracks electronically what previously had to be done by hand. Authors at the University of California-Berkeley, which electronically submits about 825 dissertations annually, will save as a group more than $50,000 through the elimination of the fee. ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Database is the seminal repository of intellectual output and emerging research from the world's great universities. Chosen by United States Library of Congress as the official archive of American dissertations, ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Database now encompasses more than one quarter of a billion pages, creating a unique, continually growing trove of emerging research, landmark works and surprisingly engaging prose. Researchers rely on ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Database as a source of enlightening information, as a pivotal component in making their own scholarly production available to the world's intellectual communities. The archive is managed at ProQuest by a team of scholars and technologists. Search for more Digital Asset Management Platforms To access our daily STM news feed through your iPhone, iPad, or other smartphones, please visit www.myscoope.com for a mobile friendly reading experience.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) are co-hosting a forum on 'Achieving Strategic Change in Research Libraries', immediately following the ARL Membership Meeting. This forum, scheduled for October 14-15, 2010, in Washington DC, will explore the strategic questions that leaders must ask in order to ensure that research libraries are meeting the mission of their institution and the research, teaching, and learning needs of faculty and students. The questions that are being asked are complex and can be difficult to answer and the issues being addressed require innovative approaches. The programme sessions will address a variety of critical questions and new models. Keynote addresses, panel presentations, and concurrent sessions will be held with speakers. The forum is open to all. In particular, directors and other senior leaders of research and academic libraries are encouraged to attend, along with staff members who have responsibilities for managing change in their organisations. Search for more conferences To access our daily STM news feed through your iPhone, iPad, or other smartphones, please visit www.myscoope.com for a mobile friendly reading experience.
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Endocrine disruption is an expanding field due to the numerous chemicals involved and, as evidenced more recently, the variety of homeostatic systems that they can alter throughout life. Also, this fi eld is at the edge of several disciplines with implications of both laboratory scientists and clinicians. This symposium aims at updating mechanisms and consequences of endocrine disruption in three perspectives: neural, metabolic and reproductive. The gathering of experts from all over the world should help the participants to identify health disorders that are possibly or likely related to exposure to endocrine disrupters. The research needs will be discussed as well as recommendations prioritizing target groups and following the precautionary principle.
The US Center for Science in the Public Interest has questioned medical journals for not revealing the financial relationship the authors hold with drug companies for the studies that may potentially benefit the companies. . Scientists whose researches are funded by drug companies often publish their reports in prestigious scientific journals. Drug companies who fund the reports claim the results of the study while marketing the product. Publishers of the journals are left clueless about the funding agreement. Click Here
Allen Press had conducted an annual study to identify the pricing patterns of scientific and medical journals. The research covers the 2004 pricing of US journals and gives recommendations on the pricing structure for 2005. It carries comparisons between the pricing structures of non-profit society journals and discusses general pricing trends in the US. The author also ranks the journals based on the subscription charges and science categories with higher prices. The paper also forecasts the pricing strategy of science journals in 2005. Click Here
Researchers have voiced their support to Open Access (OA) that makes their works available to anyone free of cost. While commercial publishers have given a subdued response to OA, scientists welcome OA archiving, wherein institutions or academics maintain an electronic format of the studies submitted by the scientists. Amidst disapproval from publishers and scientific groups, OA archiving is gaining acceptance from developed nations. Economic factors, existing subsidised but limited free content supported by publishers and an inclination to traditional publishing are a few reasons that impede support for OA archiving from developing countries. Click Here
The “open access movement”, which is rapidly gaining ground in the area of STM publishing, stresses the free use of online medical research. As commercial publishers set high prices for medical periodicals and libraries struggle to sustain amidst shrinking budgets, a debate has flared up on the need for open access. Clinical and basic researchers point out that as these studies are funded by the government, the publishers must make them available for free. The increasing use of electronic format of journals has induced independent publishers, such as ASCO and JCO, to host e-journals as an extension of their respective membership programmes and educational missions. Click Here
The open access movement is gaining momentum. Critics have voiced their strong protests against the pricing of STM journals. The spiralling prices were, in fact, the major reason for the launch and rapid spreading of the open access movement. Does this mean the end of SRM publishers? No, says Bill Town in his article in Computing. Click Here
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