Elsevier to publish NADAC price type from CMS - December 12, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that, effective November 30, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) survey-based price type, National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC) is included for all available drugs where applicable in Elsevier's Gold Standard Drug Database and web-based solutions, ProspectoRx… Read More
Digital Science donates SureChem data of more than 15 million chemical compounds and patents to EMBL-EBI - December 12, 2013
Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Science & Education, is donating the SureChem collection of more than15 million chemical structures from world patents into the public domain through the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). It is the first time a world patent chemistry collection has been made… Read More
Thomson Reuters acquires AVEDAS, expands scholarly-research analytics solution - December 11, 2013
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has acquired German-based AVEDAS, a company specialising in the development and implementation of current research information systems. AVEDAS will be integrated into the Scientific and Scholarly Research unit of Thomson Reuters. AVEDAS' flagship research information system, CONVERIS®… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health releases Medi-Span Federal Government Pricing File - December 11, 2013
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has released the Medi-Span® Federal Government Pricing File™, which consolidates NADAC pricing data from CMS, serving as a key resource to payers, pharmacy benefit managers, and retail pharmacies. In late November, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services… Read More
STM seminars focus on Data and Content Enrichment - December 10, 2013
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers' (STM) hosted two interesting and thought provoking seminars, STM – Innovations and STM – E-Production, in London last week. On December 4, 2013, the STM – Innovations seminar kicked off with an opening Keynote from Gerry… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education expands efforts to ensure fully interoperable future for the education technology industry - December 10, 2013
Digital learning company McGraw-Hill Education, US, has designated its Tel Aviv-area technology innovation center as its company-wide interoperability hub. The center will continue to ensure that all of the company's current and future digital learning solutions adhere to the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) guidelines, the… Read More
