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Crowdfunding Healthcare Innovation: Q & A With Alex Fair, CEO Of MedStartr

Kasia Galica | Informatics for Consumer Health | November 13, 2012

In this ICH Blog post, we spotlight MedStartr, a new health-related crowdfunding platform. Crowdfunding for health-related projects is an innovative idea that enables the consumer to decide what health information technology applications or devices are important and ready to come on the market. Read More »

Crowdfunding Healthcare Startups – Medstartr And Indiegogo

John Lynn | EMR & HIPAA | October 5, 2012

I have been seeing more and more activity around the idea of using the crowds to fund various healthcare IT startup companies. This shouldn’t be that surprising to any of us given the success of websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo... Read More »

Crowdfunding In Healthcare Isn’t Easy – Health Tech Hatch Turns to Indiegogo

Ki Mae Heussner | GigaOM | June 5, 2013

Health Tech Hatch, a site launched last fall as a crowdfunding site specifically for health startups, is joining forces with one of the biggest crowdfunding platforms on the web, Indiegogo. Read More »

Crowdfunding The Next Medical Cure

Mohana Ravindranath | The Washington Post | July 8, 2013

Creating a new medical device is not an inexpensive exercise. There are development costs, clinical trial expenses, and the lengthy process of getting a piece of new equipment approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Read More »

Crowdsource Mapping Helps Recovery Efforts In Philippines

Staff Writer | Here & Now | November 15, 2013

The United Nations says 11 million people are affected by Typhoon Haiyan, which hammered the islands a week ago today. The death toll is now more than 3,000, and the survivors are still struggling to get the food and water they so desperately need. Read More »

Crowdsourcing Linked Open Data For Disaster Management

Jens Ortmann, Minu Limbu, Dong Wang, and Tomi Kauppinen | Mendeley | January 1, 2011

This paper shows how Linked Open Data can ease the chal- lenges of information triage in disaster response efforts. Recently, disaster management has seen a revolution in data collection. [...] Read More »

Crowdsourcing Proves Effective For Labeling Medical Terms

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | May 6, 2013

Crowdsourcing can be an effective means of labeling medically relevant terms that could then be used in statistical tools to provide sentence-level context results, a study from Stanford University found. Read More »

Crowdtilt Launches Free, Open Source Crowdfunding Solution — And It Supports Bitcoin

Eric Blattberg | VentureBeat | February 20, 2014

The crowdfunding company today launched CrowdtiltOpen, an open source crowdfunding solution that enables anyone to crowdfund anything on their own sites. It’s the polished version of Crowdhoster, which the Y Combinator startup unveiled and beta tested last year. Read More »

CSC Cannot Donate GP Code

Jon Hoeksma | eHealth Insider | October 15, 2012

CSC says that it cannot give away or donate the code for its three primary care software systems without incurring legal obligations. Read More »

CSIR Pushes For TB, Malaria Drug Finds [India]

Himanshi Dhawan | The Times of India | September 18, 2013

NEW DELHI: Giving crowd sourcing a whole new meaning, scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have initiated a country-wide venture to build a chemical library with diverse compounds that will successfully drive drug discovery programmes, particularly for neglected diseases like tuberculosis and malaria.

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CSIR To Create Open Access Repositories

Staff Writer | The New Indian Express | March 16, 2013

In a bid to break the monopoly of publishers quoting exorbitant rates to grant electronic resources for research, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is now creating an ‘open access repository’ of its own papers. Read More »

CSIR to Provide Affordable Healthcare with Global Partnership

Press Release | Ministry of Science and Technology-India | March 23, 2011

March 24 is the World TB Day. India has the world’s largest TB epidemic in terms of incidence and mortality and the disease remains the largest killer of Indians between the ages of 15 and 45. In order to find new drugs for TB, CSIR had initiated the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) project which was launched on 15th September, 2008.

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CSIR Tuberculosis Drug Project Enters Phase II Clinical Trials

Nikita Mehta | Live Mint | March 25, 2014

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR) open source drug discovery (OSDD) project on Monday handed over a new drug combination to the Lala Ram Sarup TB Hospital in New Delhi to take it forward for so-called Phase IIB clinical trials to study the efficacy of the drug that will target multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Indian patients.

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CSIR, Royal Society Of Chemistry Team Up To Support OSDD Efforts: Minister

Staff Writer | Pharmabiz.com | August 9, 2013

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)  had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Royal Society of Chemistry of London to support  drug discovery efforts through the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) , the Parliament has been told. Read More »

CSIR’s Open Source Drug Discovery is Scouting for CROs to Pursue Advanced Study on TB

Nandita Vijay | Pharmabiz.com | May 5, 2012

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)'s 'Open Source Drug Discovery' (OSDD) programme is now expanding its drug experimental capabilities. In this regard it is scouting for contract research organizations (CROs) across the country to pursue studies on tuberculosis. Read More »