News
See the following -
Scenarios for Health Care Reform (Part 1 of 2)
All reformers in health care know what the field needs to do; I laid out four years ago the consensus about patient-supplied data, widespread analytics, mHealth, and transparency. Our frustration comes in when trying to crack the current hide-bound system open and create change. Recent interventions by US Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, whatever their effects on costs and insurance coverage, offer no promise to affect workflows or treatment. So this article suggests three potential scenarios where reform could succeed, along with a vision of what will happen if none of them take hold...
- Login to post comments
Scenarios for Health Care Reform (Part 2 of 2)
Some health care providers balk at the requirement to share data, but their legal and marketing teams explain that they have been doing it for years already with companies whose motives are less commendable. Increasingly, the providers are won over. The analytics service appeals particularly to small, rural, and safety-net providers. Hammered by payment cuts and growing needs among their populations, they are on the edge of going out of business and grasp the service as their last chance to stay in the black...
- Login to post comments
SCFD Funds Open Access For Arts Lovers
Taxes paid by Broomfield residents, others in seven-county district, provide free entry at facilities across state
Read More »
- Login to post comments
School Of Nursing And Atlanta VA Medical Center Awarded $4 Million To Train Nurses To Care For Veterans
Emory University's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and the Atlanta VA Medical Center (VAMC) are teaming up to train nurses for the specialized field of veteran health care. [...] Read More »
- Login to post comments
Schools Aren't Teaching Kids To Code; Here's Who Is Filling The Gap
Learning to code is all the rage these days, but not in one place that matters a lot: U.S. schools. U.S. students already significantly lag their global counterparts where math and science skills are concerned. But computer science is in even worse shape: Of 12 technical subjects examined in a recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics, computer science was the only one that declined in student popularity from 1990 to 2009 (p. 49)...
- Login to post comments
Schumer: DoD & VA Health Records Are Not Compatible & Not All Are Electronic – One Of The Biggest Causes Of VA Benefit Backlog; Senator Will Push Legislation To Create Interoperable Records & Address Almost 15,000 Backlogged Claims In Upstate NY
Just ahead of Veteran’s Day, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer called for the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) to create interoperable, electronic health records for service members, in order to address the serious delays in processing almost 15,000 Upstate New York veterans’ disability and other benefits. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Sciedu Press: Open Access - The Trend Of Scholarly Publishing
Sciedu Press is a scientific publishing house and completely private. They publish various researches from around the globe in the fields of education, science, and culture, which include educational and scientific books along with scholarly journals. Sciedu Press specializes in research journal publications covering fields pertaining to medicine, sciences, engineering, social sciences, management, and business...
- Login to post comments
SciELO Announces Open Access eBook Collection From Brazil
Last Fall, I wrote about the SciELO ebook collection for Open Access Week. I just received this official press release announcing the collection of 300 open access ebooks from Brazil. The press release is also available in Espanol and Portugues. Read More »
- Login to post comments
SciELO Suma Ciencia En Desarrollo A La Web Of Knowledge
Web of Knowledge, una potente herramienta web que brinda a científicos y académicos acceso a investigaciones de todo el mundo, incorporará también la base de datos de la red SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) gracias a un acuerdo firmado con Thomson Reuters (25 de julio). Read More »
- Login to post comments
Science Europe Denounces ‘Hybrid’ Open Access
Recently Science Europe published a clear and concise position statement titled: Principles on the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications. This is an extremely timely & important document that clarifies what governments and research funders should expect during the transition to open access. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Science Wins As PLoS Goes Hard On Open Access
Academic journal PLoS (Public Library of Science) has changed its policy so that authors are now required to make the data underlying their scientific findings available publicly, without restriction, immediately upon publication of the article. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)
The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading professional association of scientists who study insects. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Scientific Data Should Be Shared: An Open Letter To The ARC
Science (real science, not the summaries in popular books and the media) is needlessly closed to the outside world. Worse, it is closed within itself, with every lab its own silo, and little sharing of data or materials. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Scientific Publishers Offer Solution To White House's Public Access Mandate
A group of scientific publishers today announced a plan for allowing the public to read taxpayer-funded research papers for free by linking to journals' own websites... Read More »
- Login to post comments
Scientists Are 'Less Inclined To Do The Tough Experiments' For Open Access Journals
As chief editor of the journal "Nature Medicine," Juan Carlos López knows his company has to change as the open-access model of publishing research papers takes hold. But he questions the quality. Read More »
- Login to post comments