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China's Research Funders Announce Open Access Policies
China’s top science funding agencies – the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China – have issued new open access policies on research in a move to make research widely available. The academy said open access would “facilitate knowledge dissemination and accelerate the globalisation of science”...
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China's State-Owned Sector Told To Cut Ties With U.S. Consulting Firms
China has told its state-owned enterprises to sever links with American consulting firms just days after the United States charged five Chinese military officers with hacking U.S. companies, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
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Chipotle Becomes the First National Restaurant Company to Use Only Non-GMO Ingredients.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has achieved its goal of moving to only non-GMO ingredients to make all of the food in its U.S. restaurants – including all of the food at its Asian restaurant concept, ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen. The company is now actively developing new recipes for its tortillas, which are the only food items on its menu that include any artificial additives. Both initiatives underscore Chipotle’s commitment to serving food made from the very best ingredients.
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Chronic Health Conditions Plague Half Of All American Adults, CDC Reports
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, half of all American adults - approximately 117 million people - suffer from one or more chronic health conditions...
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Chuck Hagel and the Secret War Over DOD & VA Electronic Health Records
...Today, the agencies are moving down separate modernization paths, with DOD working on its Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization program (DHMSM) and VA planning commercial acquisitions for the next generation of its Veterans Integrated System Technology Architecture, known as VistA. But analysts, including one of the founding developers of VistA, point to years of missed opportunities for DOD to leverage what many consider to be superior existing capabilities in VA’s VistA system — an ecosystem of modular application components that in most cases have become industry standards (VA’s troubled scheduling system notwithstanding)...
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Citing Anthrax And Smallpox Scares, White House Tells Federal Labs To Take Stock
After recent mishandling of potentially deadly pathogens, the White House is urging all federal laboratories to conduct what it is calling a “safety stand-down,” security and science officials announced Thursday. Agencies that handle infectious agents or toxins have been asked to complete overviews of their programs within 30 days of a memo dated Aug. 18...
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Citizen Cartographers Fill The Gaps In Maps
...[M]aps are a vital resource, especially when deciding what infrastructure to build or in the event of a humanitarian crisis. Now teams of mappers are working to chart some of the most obscure corners of the developing world using OpenStreetMap (OSM), the citizen-mapping tool that today has over 1 million registered users.
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Clayton Christensen: American Health Care Is Sick And Getting Sicker
“We’re in a situation now where American medicine needs stronger leadership,” said management guru Clayton Christensen. “That is, executives who know how to wield power and drive change..."
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ClearCanvas Receives CE Mark for RIS/PACS Software
ClearCanvas Inc, an innovative medical imaging informatics company today announced the receipt of the CE mark for its RIS/PACS software. "We are very excited about the potential the CE mark has created for ClearCanvas to build on its 25,000 strong user base," comments Norman Young, CEO.
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ClinCapture 2.0 Official Launch on May 23rd
Clinovo is officially launching ClinCapture 2.0 with a 1-hour online webinar on May 23rd, 2014, followed by a series of industry conferences in June. Read More »
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ClinGenuity Uses Artificial Intelligence Redaction Tool To Keep Big Pharma Compliant
ClinGenuity, the Cincinnati medical writing company with the pharmaceutical industry's first and only artificially-intelligent automated redaction management tool, has processed more than a half billion redactions for big pharma companies to help them meet the growing industry demand for pharmaceutical clinical trial disclosure and transparency initiatives...
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Clinical Data Registries Bill Advances In House Despite Opposition
A bill requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to publish recommendations for the development of clinical data registries was approved in a July 30 vote by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, but not without sharp opposition from Democratic members....
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Clinical Decision Support Should Be Open Source
Clinical decision support is a long-standing occupant of the medical setting. It got in the door with electronic medical records, and has recently received a facelift under the term “evidence based medicine.”...
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Clinical Leader Interviews Clinovo On Trends, Benefits And Strategies In The Adoption Of Electronic Data Capture (EDC) Systems
Glenn Keet, CEO of Silicon Valley-based Clinovo, an eClinical systems provider, is featured in Clinical Leader, the premier online community and leading media for clinical trial experts, in an exclusive interview titled “EDC In Clinical Trials – Can You Afford Not To Go Electronic? In that interview led by Ed Miseta, Chief Editor at Outsourced Pharma and Clinical Leader, Keet’s gives a unique perspective on the technology advances in the life science industry and the adoption of electronic data capture (EDC) systems in clinical trials. Keet explains how only 20% of worldwide clinical trials are using electronic data capture (EDC) systems, discussing the misconceptions around the costs and complexity to adopt EDC technologies.
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Clinovo Adds Enhancements to Its Open Source EDC System, ClinCapture
Clinovo launches the latest version of its Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system ClinCapture. With the new release, sponsor companies, contract research organizations (CROs) and researchers will be able to streamline the development and management of clinical trials by creating and managing electronic case report forms (CRFs) without relying on professional services. With these new features, ClinCapture becomes the only free, full-validated EDC in the world.
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