Open Access and Open Data in For-Profit Healthcare

About This Session

Copyright promotes the progress of science and useful arts. Open Access trends in publishing remove restrictions from access and reuse, opening the doors to more opportunities for progress of science. Similarly, open medical and health information lead the path to enhancements in care for both individuals and whole populations locally and globally, through access to more evidence, symptoms, diagnosis and treatments. Alternatively, concealing of medical and health information seriously undercut certainty of diagnosis and proposed treatment. This presentation discusses adoption (or lack thereof) of Open Access and Open Data trends at for profit healthcare organizations from a scientist’s and from a librarian's point of view.

Presenters

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Marija Markovic

Marija Markovic is a copyright compliance expert and content manager, with experience in corporate librarian roles in the medical device and diagnostics industry. As a consultant, she helps organizations establish best practices in cost efficient and copyright compliant scientific literature access. She completed her MSLIS and MA degrees at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

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Julie Eggington

  • Co-Founder and CEO, Center for Genomic Interpretation

Dr. Eggington is a world expert in the initial classification of novel genetic variants, high throughput literature curation, as well as the accurate re-classification of Variants of Uncertain Significance (VUS) through optimized research methods. Dr. Eggington has directed variant classification programs at Myriad Genetics, Courtagen, and 23andMe.

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