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2 September 2010  Thomson Reuters acquires Healthcare Data Management, Inc.
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.
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CATEGORY1 CPMRC's annual conference to focus on transforming healthcare 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.
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CATEGORY1 JSTOR unveils update to interface changes, limiting search to licensed content 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.
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CATEGORY1 ProQuest waves off fees for basic submission to ProQuest Dissertation &Theses Database 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.
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CATEGORY1 ARL and CNI to co-host forum on 'Achieving Strategic Change in Research Libraries' 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.
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CATEGORY1 JISC Collections to bring out licence comparison site with DataSalon
JISC Collections, an organisation that manages the acquisition and provision of digital resources for universities and colleges in the UK, will be working with DataSalon to specify and build an online licence comparison site. The site will enable librarians to view, compare and export the terms of licences expressed in ONIX-PL format. Launching at the end of 2010, it is projected to provide a user-friendly means for librarians to review individual licences, view two licences side-by-side, or compare terms across many different licences at once.
Libraries typically have many different licence agreements for their digital resources, but understanding their permissions and communicating these to users can typically be a difficult process when dealing with complex and varied paper contracts. In response, EDItEUR, an international standards group, developed the ONIX Publications License format (ONIX-PL), an XML Schema which provides a standardised way of expressing licence terms electronically. Partnering DataSalon with EDItEUR and JISC Collections, the licence comparison site project will further build on this work by making licences expressed in this format easily accessible to the UK academic library community.
DataSalon had previously worked with JISC Collections to create the Academic Database Assessment Tool (http://www.jisc-adat.com), a free online database comparison service which aims to help libraries make informed decisions about future subscriptions to online resources. It provides access to detailed information and title lists for major bibliographic and full text databases, and delivers service information for database and e-book content platforms. The site has reportedly received strong support from university librarians in the UK and worldwide since its launch in 2007.
The license comparison site will seek to repeat this success and provide librarians with an entirely new way of viewing and comparing the terms of different licences online. It will initially be launched with around 80 of the most common JISC Collections electronic licences in the system, and will be provided as a free online service to participating libraries.
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CATEGORY1 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (British Volume) to undergo title change The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (British Volume), published by The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, will be undergoing a title change within the next 5 years.
The title The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) is owned by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc, publishers of JBJS (American Volume), and has been licensed to the British Volume since its inception in 1948. For over 60 years, the two publications have marketed and distributed their journals together building a long-standing reputation of editorial excellence within the Orthopaedic community.
However, the publishing landscape is constantly changing and it is important that the two Volumes have clarity and autonomy to build and grow in their own direction. It has therefore been decided that this agreement will come to an end in 2015 and JBJS (British Volume) will seek a new title to advance the journal. The editorial quality, style and peer-reviewing process of JBJS (British Volume) will remain completely unchanged despite the change in title.
Peter Richardson, the recently appointed Managing Director of The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, will commence his position in October to lead the Society through this transition.
JBJS (Br) was first published in 1948 by The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery with the aim to advance and improve education in orthopaedic surgery and allied branches of surgery. The journal publishes twelve issues a year of high-quality, peer-reviewed research, overseen by an international Editorial Board and a panel of 700 reviewers worldwide, led by Editor James Scott. The journal has a rejection rate of 85% and receives over 1650 submissions a year.
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CATEGORY1 Dr. Catherine D. DeAngelis to step down as JAMA Editor-in-Chief in 2011 The Journal of the American Medical Association has announced that Editor-in-Chief Dr. Catherine D. DeAngelis will be leaving her position as of June 30, 2011. Dr. DeAngelis has been serving as Editor-in-Chief of the journal since January 2000. She also oversees the nine Archives specialty medical journal publications.
Dr. DeAngelis has been a leader among journal editors to increase the integrity and ethics of medical journal publishing. Working with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), she encouraged other editors to agree to a requirement for all clinical trials to be registered as a condition of publication and to strengthen conflict of interest guidelines. In one of her most courageous stands as a journal editor, she instituted the requirement that industry-sponsored clinical trials must have an independent academic statistician to review all data before a manuscript can be accepted and published in JAMA. No other journal has this stringent requirement to ensure the integrity of data.
During her tenure as editor, JAMA's Impact Factor increased from 11.4 in 2000 to 28.9 in 2009, the most recent year for which figures are available. The journal is consistently listed as one of the top three general medical journals in the world and highest for integrity.
With the announcement of Dr. DeAngelis' departure, the AMA has started the search for a new Editor-in-Chief for JAMA and the Archives journals. Russell Reynolds Associates has been retained to assist with the search. The search committee will be headed by JAMA Editorial Board member Dr. Ronald G. Evens from Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. Other members of the search committee include representatives from the Journal Oversight Committee, the AMA's Board of Trustees, AMA senior management, and JAMA/Archives. The AMA plans to have a new editor in place by July 1, 2011.
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CATEGORY1 Wiley-Blackwell names Natasha White as Associate Director, Open Access Marketing Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced the appointment of a senior marketing professional to support its Open Access publishing initiatives. Natasha White (née Robshaw) has joined the company as Associate Director, Open Access Marketing.
Natasha has extensive experience in Open Access (OA) publishing, having previously worked at BioMed Central as Marketing and Sales Director for over 6 years. She will have responsibility for marketing the growing number of hybrid Online Open journals available from Wiley-Blackwell. Also, she will be responsible for developing relationships with institutions and funders who wish to allocate funds to Open Access, and will take a leading role in identifying and developing further opportunities for Wiley-Blackwell in Open Access publishing.
Wiley-Blackwell publishes nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed journals and over 1,500 new books annually in print and online, as well as databases, major reference works and laboratory protocols.
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CATEGORY1 UBM TechInsights appoints new Director of Sales for US East and Canada UBM TechInsights, a provider of sophisticated information services, consulting, and management software for technology companies, has announced the appointment of Ingo Rutenberg as Director of Sales for US East and Canada. This appointment continues UBM TechInsights investments to better serve the needs of the growing North American market. Earlier appointments in 2010 include Emilio Martinez, Director of Sales for US Central and Russ Huffman as Director of Sales for US West. All three Directors report to Richard Waterhouse, Vice President of Sales for the Americas.
Rutenberg has worked extensively in the technology sector with experience selling in the defense, medical and telecommunications markets. Most recently he was the North America Sales Manager for Amphenol RF, a global manufacturer of RF connectors and custom assemblies.
UBM TechInsights assists in the management of their technology and intellectual property portfolios, ensuring the reduction of risk and maximising return on investment. The company has more than 20 years of industry experience in servicing top tier technology companies in a wide range of market sectors.
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