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Dutch PhD-Workshop on Research Design, Open Access And Open Data
For some time now the library at the University of Groningen is organizing workshops for PhDs to raise awareness on the shift towards Open Access. Open Access and copyright are the main themes. The question also to address verifiability of research data came from SOM, the Research Institute of the Faculty of Economics and Business.
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E-Book Ruling Gives Amazon An Advantage
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, loves disrupting markets. In that regard, he must be having a delightful summer. The book business, once so mired in the past it seemed part of the antiques trade, is up for grabs. Read More »
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e-Global Goes Live with Authentic Open Development Payment Platform
Mexico’s largest electronic payment processor, Servicios Electronicos Globales, e-Global, has gone live with the Authentic Open Development Payment platform provided by Alaric International and Stratus Technologies Mexico. Read More »
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e-Health Project In Malaysia To Monitor Medical Drug Preservation With Waspmote
Medical drugs are very expensive, in special vaccines and others that need to be stored at a specific temperature. Therefore, real-time monitoring is vital to control whether the cold chain has been broken or not. Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are capable of getting temperature, humidity or luminosity measurements and transmit the data to a remote server periodically. In this way, real-time conditions can be monitored in order to know when a problem in a freezer or a refrigerator happens, avoiding critical situations and saving a huge amount of money.
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E-Health Records Can Boost Care in Developing Countries, Study Finds
Computer-generated reminders in electronic health record systems can help improve care in developing countries, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), the International Business Times reports. The study focused on an open-source EHR system, called OpenMRS, that is widely used in developing countries.
E-Prescribing Continues Rapid Growth
While there are at least two sides to every story, one of the more one-sided stories in health IT is the degree to which e-prescribing has taken hold across the healthcare sector. Read More »
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E-Prescribing Growth To Pop As Penalties Approach
E-prescription adoption will grow in 2013, but challenges persist in connectivity, funding and state regulations, says Black Book study.
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E-Records Project Taken From DoD Health Office
After five years and an estimated $1 billion spent trying to build a single integrated electronic health record (iEHR) system with the Department of Veterans Affairs, defense health officials have been taken off the project, sources confirm. Read More »
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EAC Mulls Project to Boost Maternal, Child Health
The East African Community is set to launch before the end of this year a project to boost maternal and child health in the region. The project, named the Open Health Initiative, is envisaged to promote innovative interventions and enhance access to data and information for better results, better tracking of resources and stronger oversight of results and resources for women's and children's health nationally and regionall... Read More »
Early Bird Registration Now Open For ICT4D Conference
Registration is open for the Game Changers Summit, a technology conference designed to help churches, universities and organizations connect their global mission agendas with technology solutions for the developing world. Read More »
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Early Career Researchers Making Their Own Luck – With Help From The Internet
Launching our new blogging platform for early career academics, Kathryn Eccles, historian turned digital humanist, extols the career benefits of staying open minded and switched on Read More »
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Earthquake Could Cause Los Alamos Plutonium Facility To Collapse
An earthquake could collapse the building at Los Alamos National Laboratory, N.M., where plutonium cores of nuclear bombs are produced, releasing deadly doses of radiation, the Department of Energy’s inspector general reported on Thursday Read More »
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Easier Access To PLOS Data
You’ve always relied on PLOS to make scientific and medical research freely accessible to all. Now we’re introducing a number of tools and services to unlock the full potential of the data that currently exists in the Figures and Supporting Information files of our journals but has to this point been just beyond easy reach and these include: Read More »
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East African Community 'Open Health' Project to Boost Maternal & Child Health
The East African Community is expected to launch before the end of this year, a special project named 'Open Health Initiative' geared to boost maternal and child health in the region. Read More »
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Eastern Health Goes Live with NexJ Disease Screening
NexJ Systems Inc...today announced that Eastern Health, the largest, integrated health authority in Newfoundland and Labrador, has begun use of the NexJ Disease Screening solution for its Colorectal Screening Information and Reporting System project. Read More »
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