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The Social Life of Health Information

A new Pew Internet/CHCF national survey finds the Internet has joined doctors and family members as one of the top three ways people search for answer to their health care questions.

Evaluating One-e-App

CHCF and The California Endowment funded the development of One-e-App, a Web-based program that enables users to apply for multiple public insurance programs at once. Read a business case assessment by The Lewin Group.

Privacy, Security, and the Stimulus Bill

The recently enacted economic stimulus legislation includes a number of improvements to federal health privacy law. This brief looks at issues of privacy and security in the wake of ARRA.

Consumer Information

Friday, April 11, 2008

Database Will Offer Free Access to NIH-Funded Research

A rule that takes effect this week requires researchers who publish NIH-funded work to post their results in a free, publicly accessible database within one year, NPR's "Talk of the Nation" reports.

The law states that researchers who receive funding from the agency must submit "an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts" for publication in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central database.

In the second hour of Friday's program, "Talk of the Nation" was scheduled to include a discussion about the law with Harold Varmus, a former NIH director and co-founder of the Public Library of Science, an open-access scientific journal ("Talk of the Nation" Web site, 4/11).



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