Informatics-Review > Vol. 3 No. 11 - Jun 1 2000

• Top Medical Editor George Lundberg Challenges Medical Journals to Post Content Free on Web
  He calls upon the five preeminent medical journals (Annals of Internal Medicine, Lancet, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the New England Journal of Medicine) to post their public health content on the World Wide Web without barriers to access and without charging fees. The question remains can these journals do this and stay in business? Will the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association follow suit?
  
  
• The American Medical Publishers' Associations "White Paper" on PubMedCentral
  The NIH has revised the scope of its proposed project to organize a universal preprint server in biomedicine, the original goals for which sought to spur a new system of peer review and publication-and arguably, could have placed the U.S. government in direct competition with existing STM journals.
  
  
• A robust future for health pros : The field will grow twice as fast as the overall economy
  Instant access to individual medical records, to data on patient populations, and to journal articles can make a huge difference in how efficiently diagnoses are made and how effective–and costly–treatment is. These pros, who marry computer science with medicine, provide the access. "The job market is very strong–industry has figured out that this is a skill it really needs," says Dr. Ted Shortliffe, who heads the Department of Medical Informatics at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. He points out that in academia, a Ph.D. in informatics will garner $80,000 to $100,000; in industry, perhaps $110,000 or more. (So why is this site still free with all that money floating around? Ed.)
  
  
• The CPRI-HOST First Annual Conference -- The EMR Beyond 2000: The Next Generation of Challenges Wednesday, July 12, 2000 Wyndham Hotel Washington, Washington, DC
  
  

Ó 2000 Dean F. Sittig

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