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 [...]
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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 [...]
The Basics of Participatory Medicine–Starting First With EMRs: A Chat With Ted Eytan, MD MS MPH
December 7, 2009
Over the past year or so as I have been attempting to educate myself about the subjects of Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, the e-Patient movement and Participatory Medicine I have been privileged to be guided in my somewhat bumbling but earnest efforts by some of the best thinkers on these topics (e.g., Dr. Daniel Sands [...]
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 Furor Over Futurity and the Future of Science Journalism: A Talk With Jenny Leonard
November 10, 2009
Before we begin, Jenny, I’d like to give readers a bit of background as to why I think Futurity is a fascinating development in the world of scientific publishing, research administration, science journalism, grant-making and philanthropy, scientific research, academia, consumer health, Web journalism, scientific communication, Medicine 2.0, the e-Patient movement, Open Access, biotechnology, and Science [...]
A TRIP Down Database Lane: A Talk With Jon Brassey
October 29, 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
