Before we begin, Jon, I’d like to give readers a bit of background on how I came to learn about the TRIP Database and why they should know about it. I envision the readers of this interview as most anyone in medicine and healthcare who needs to search for medical information as well as non-medical [...]
Archive for October, 2009
A TRIP Down Database Lane: A Talk With Jon Brassey
October 29, 2009
The DeepDyve Initiative: Something Innovative This Way Comes in Sci/Tech Publishing
October 27, 2009
Listen up, publishers, librarians and scientists. Here is something really important in Web content and scholarly publishing. In a really innovative and fascinating move in the world of scholarly and sci/tech publishing, the search engine firm DeepDyve is today announcing an initiative to introduce a sort of iTunes/Amazon Kindle model for scholarly content delivery the [...]
Helping Patients, Helping Researchers: A Talk With Chris Trizna of MyClinicalTrial.com
October 24, 2009
Before we begin, Chris, I’d like to provide readers with some background about how I learned about you and why I think they will find this interview useful reading. I envision several audiences for this interview. First, your comments may be helpful to members of the general public who may have heard the term “clinical [...]
American Well: The Game Changer of Healthcare
October 22, 2009
We are rarely given the privilege in this life of seeing presentations on companies that live up to the to the much over-used term “game changer.” But American Well is precisely that. It really could shake the American healthcare landscape. It takes direct patient care via the Internet out of the realm of fantasy and [...]
The Use of Social Media in Study Recruitment
October 14, 2009
I spend a lot of time thinking about grants in the health sciences and trying to find them and entering them into the site I work on, ScanGrants. Therefore, I find it really fascinating to see what is out there vis-à-vis funding for researchers with projects in mind. The other day I learned of a [...]
