It is ten minutes after five in the morning here in Bethesda, Maryland. I am attending the 2010 Annual Conference of the Genetic Alliance. I am incredibly impressed with the caliber of the speakers and attendees. It is really a privilege to get to meet and mingle with those in the genetics, rare disease and [...]
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Multilingual WorldWideScience: Accelerating Scientific Research, Empowering Researchers
July 6, 2010
One of the great pleasures of attending ScienceOnline earlier this year was that I finally got to meet Sol Lederman of the Federated Search Blog. During our chat (which came about via the gentlemanly assistance of Walter Jessen) Sol mentioned that his brother Abe Lederman of Deep Web Technologies was working in conjunction with the [...]
DeepDyve Does It Again: Fascinating Developments in Scholarly Publishing and Scientific Communication
February 11, 2010
I have been meaning to write about the latest quite fascinating doings at DeepDyve for several weeks. They are of interest to all of us who follow the news in research methods, scholarly publishing, e-content, online publishing, librarianship, Web matters and so on. Not to mention intriguing business models and interesting alignments of search/Web companies [...]
A Doctor’s Take on Participatory Medicine, Health IT and the E-Patient: A Talk With Daniel Sands of Cisco Systems
February 3, 2010
Before we begin, Dr. Sands, I’d like to give readers a bit of background. You are already well known to those of us who follow the movements Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, the e-Patient movement, Participatory Medicine, Connected Health and to those who work in the fields of health information management, medical informatics and health IT [...]
Health 2.0, Personal Genomics and Open Science: A Talk with Shirley Wu of 23andMe
December 17, 2009
Before we begin, Shirley, I’d like to give readers a bit of background as to who you are and why what you are doing is important. Those of us who follow the Open Science movement already know of your activity in FriendFeed on that topic and of your blog, of your doings on Twitter and [...]
Federated Search Writing Contest–Learn as You Write and There is a $1,000 Prize to Boot
December 8, 2009
Listen up, info pros. Here is a chance for library science students, librarians in many fields, and those in the search industry and in the field of information science to not only win as much as $1,000 but to get their travel and lodging expenses covered for a trip to Computers in Libraries 2010 and [...]
Online Care Anywhere, Anytime: Notes on a Talk with American Well President and CEO Roy Schoenberg, MD
November 25, 2009
I have already written about American Well and since that time I have been able to talk on the phone with its president and chief executive officer, Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH. That chat has convinced me that American Well is set to become a transformative player in the American healthcare system via its system of [...]
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 [...]
