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ONC Unveils Rules For Medicare Data Visualization Challenge
Just as the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) was releasing Medicare provider utilization and payment data to the public, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) was looking for ways to make these data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) meaningful to consumers.
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ONC's 5 Goals For The Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on Wednesday shared more detail about its vision for the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020 it laid down last week...
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ONC's structure gets flatter as its $2B stimulus appropriation ends
It should have come as little surprise that Dr. Karen DeSalvo, in announcing last week a reorganization of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said she was aiming for a “flatter” reporting structure.
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Online Army Helps Map Guinea's Ebola Outbreak
Health workers responding to an Ebola outbreak in Guinea had no maps to go on, so they turned to the internet for help
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Open Access Allows Scholars To Find Information On Nearly Anything
...When the U.S. government funds research through the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation, the researchers usually publish the results of their work in professional journals. But subscriptions to professional journals are costly...Celebrating Open Access Week was an opportunity to talk publicly about what it takes to see that the public actually has access.
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Open Access And The Direction Of Travel In Scholarly Publishing
...As the world wide web has wrapped the globe in an ever-tighter network of connections, it has slowly transformed the look and feel of the place, unleashing torrents of data and changing our information culture in ways that we are still figuring out. In the world of research it is interesting to see how established publishers, who built successful businesses by selling journal subscriptions to readers, are bending themselves to fit into the new digital landscape...
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Open Access Maps At NYPL
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division is very proud to announce the release of more than 20,000 cartographic works as high resolution downloads. We believe these maps have no known US copyright restrictions.
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Open Access Negotiations Between Dutch Universities and Elsevier Collapse
Negotiations between the Dutch universities and publishing company Elsevier on subscription fees and Open Access have ground to a halt...the universities want academic publications to be freely accessible. To that end, agreements will have to be made with the publishers. The proposal presented by Elsevier last week totally fails to address this inevitable change...
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Open Access Papers ‘Gain More Traffic And Citations’
Open access science articles are read and cited more often than articles available only to subscribers, a study has suggested.
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Open Access Research Library JournalClick Posts Rapid Growth - Now 3.4 Million Articles
An innovative open access online library of research articles has announced that it now plays host to over 3.4 million free articles, and adding new articles each day as they are released...
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Open Access – Still to Have Its Google Moment
As searches are centred on words – and not IP licence type, a problem is immediately created for providers of Open Access content. Ask any Open Access publisher, and they will tell you that one of their biggest challenges – if not the biggest – is discoverability. And here the most popular search engines are only partially helpful...If a researcher is specifically looking for Open Access content, as will increasingly be the case, they can of course go to a directory (Archie again!) such as DOAJ, but that is far from exhaustive and is not even fully searchable – it lists over 10,700 journal records, but only 6,800 are searchable at article level.
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Open Access: a profitable choice for publishers
In 2010 the publisher, Simone Eandi, decided to start a new journal, Reviews in Health Care (http://journals.edizioniseed.it/index.php/rhc), and from the beginning it was in Open Access format. Today the journal counts about 2,500 readers and, for each article, a mean of 50 downloads and 450 online visualisations. The journal is now indexed on the major open access dbases like DOAJ, NewJour, GoogleScholar and many others.
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Open Access: Effective Measures To Put UK Research Online Under Threat?
The universities of the UK should not squander the opportunity to put in place an effective mechanism for making their published research freely available...
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Open access: everyone has the right to knowledge
This week, we celebrate open access week – an event aimed at bringing attention to this rapidly emerging form of scientific publication and its ethical imperatives.
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Open Access: Indian Students Help Revive And Digitize Rare Books For Malayalam Wiki Library
The New Indian Express reports that in a terrific effort, more than 1000 school students and 234 members of the public across the state of Kerala digitized, proof-read and uploaded more than 150 rare and out-of-copyright Malayalam books as part of a digitization contest organized to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wiki Source project by the Centre for Internet and Society, the state government run IT@School project, Swanthanthra Malayalam Computing and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi online library...
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