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Monday, June 14, 2010

Thomson Reuters Paper Charts Course to Eliminating $3.6 Trillion in Healthcare Waste in a Decade



14 Jun 2010 07:00 Africa/Lagos


Thomson Reuters Paper Charts Course to Eliminating $3.6 Trillion in Healthcare Waste in a Decade

ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. healthcare industry can eliminate $3.6 trillion in healthcare waste over the next 10 years by addressing a series of operational inefficiencies, according to a white paper published today by Thomson Reuters.


The report analyzes the country's leading public and private sector efforts to reduce waste in the healthcare system and identifies five proven strategies that have been deployed in the real world to cut costs and improve patient care.


"Last year, we published a report concluding that the U.S. healthcare system wastes $700 billion a year," said Bob Kelley, vice president for healthcare analytics at Thomson Reuters and co-author of the paper released today. "This new report describes a possible path for significantly reducing that waste."


By systematically incorporating these best practices into the organizational structure of the healthcare industry, the new paper says, it's possible to cut waste 5 percent per year. Over 10 years, that would add up to $3.6 trillion and keep total healthcare expenditures at their current rate of about 17 percent of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP). Among the strategies outlined in the paper are the following:


-- Engage Consumers: By engaging the public in discussions with their
caregivers regarding the value and risk of specific treatment options,
it is possible to dramatically reduce money spent for unnecessary
treatments.

-- Coordinate Care: Healthcare providers lacking access to patients'
medical records leads to the duplication of tests and inappropriate
treatments that are estimated to cost up to $50 billion annually.
Simple incentives have made a significant difference in the
implementation of electronic records in several healthcare systems.

-- Manage Disease and Maintain Wellness: This strategy ensures that
patients are actively engaged, along with their clinicians, in
managing their own health through attention to personal behavior,
disease prevention, early detection and appropriate care for chronic
diseases.

-- Design for Patient Safety and Quality: Preventable medical errors
account for $50 billion to $100 billion in annual healthcare spending.
By implementing a simple checklist approach based on evidence-based
best practices, several healthcare systems have improved patient
outcomes and reduced costs.

-- Reduce Opportunities for Fraud: In 2007, when the U.S. spent roughly
$2.3 trillion on healthcare, fraud was estimated to account for as
much as 5 to 10 percent of healthcare spending, according to a report
published by the George Washington University School of Public Health
and Health Services. Computerized systems that track data anomalies to
identify fraud and breaches in payment integrity have been proven to
stem these costs in several state Medicaid programs.


"We started with a premise that RAND Health researchers put forth in a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine -- it is reasonable to set a goal of constraining healthcare spending to its current share of the GDP," said Ray Fabius, M.D., chief medical officer at Thomson Reuters and co-author of the white paper. "Then we investigated initiatives that have successfully reduced healthcare costs without sacrificing quality -- real-world examples of what's possible -- and in some cases estimated the savings if they were widely replicated.


"The result, detailed in this paper, is one path for reaching this goal over the next decade."


The study can be downloaded at www.factsforhealthcare.com. (A simple registration is required.)


Thomson Reuters


Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs 55,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.


Source: Thomson Reuters

CONTACT: David Wilkins, Director, Public Relations, Healthcare &
Science, +1-734-913-3397, david.wilkins@thomsonreuters.com


Web Site: http://www.thomsonreuters.com/


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Monday, May 10, 2010

Survey Shows High Level of Engagement From Global Scholarly Community

10 May 2010 05:01 Africa/Lagos


Thomson Reuters Academic Reputation Survey Shows High Level of Engagement From Global Scholarly Community

Nearly one third of responses came from Asia

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Reuters, the authority on research analytics and decision support citation data for more than half a century, today announced preliminary results of its Academic Reputation Survey. The survey not only received responses from professional scholars from every corner of the world, but also an excellent breadth of results across different subject areas.


Thousands of responses were received in six subject areas: engineering and technology; physical sciences; life sciences; clinical, preclinical and health; social sciences; and arts and humanities. Nearly one third of these responses came from Asia, including a strong representation from China and Japan.


"We're particularly pleased with the number of responses from the Asia Pacific region," said Jonathan Adams, director of research evaluation at Thomson Reuters. "As other surveys have been criticized for over-representing North America and Europe, we took particular care to better balance regional representation."


To help control for language and translation bias the Academic Reputation Survey was offered in eight languages: Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese and English.


"Interestingly, country affiliation did not always predict language usage," Adams added. "For example, many United States-based participants took the survey in Chinese -- illustrating a highly mobile global academic community."


The Academic Reputation Survey is part of the Thomson Reuters Global Institutional Profiles Project. The initiative will create data-driven profiles of globally significant research institutions -- combining reputational feedback, scholarly outputs, citation patterns, funding levels, and faculty characteristics across disciplines in one comprehensive database. The dataset can be packaged and analyzed to different specifications, giving organizations custom information for evaluating and benchmarking their performance and supporting efforts to secure research funding. The data gathered for the Global Institutional Profiles Project will also help inform the Times Higher Education's influential World University Rankings.


Thomson Reuters will continue to analyze and release detailed results of the Academic Reputation Survey in the coming months. For more information and resources, please visit http://science.thomsonreuters.com/globalprofilesproject.


Thomson Reuters


Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:TRI) . For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.


Source: Thomson Reuters

CONTACT: Susan Besaw, Manager, PR & Communications, Healthcare & Science
of Thomson Reuters, +1-215-823-1840, susan.besaw@thomsonreuters.com


Web Site: http://thomsonreuters.com/

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Monday, March 15, 2010

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Rudolf Jaenisch, M.D.

15 Mar 2010 05:01 Africa/Lagos


Thomson Reuters Names the World's 'Hottest' Researchers

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's "hottest" researcher is biochemist Rudolf Jaenisch, M.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is joined by scientists scattered from Ann Arbor to Osaka on the annual Thomson Reuters list of the world's 12 hottest researchers.


In its March/April issue of Science Watch, Thomson Reuters identified the dozen authors whose recent papers were cited most often by other researchers during 2009. Jaenisch authored 14 of these Hot Papers. His research investigates reprogrammed fibroblast cells in models of Parkinson's disease, sickle-cell anemia and other conditions.


Mark J. Daly from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard produced 13 Hot Papers on genetic mapping and genome-wide association studies. Several of these reports were co-authored with David Altshuler and Paul I.W. de Bakker from the Broad Institute and Goncalo Abecasis of the University of Michigan -- all of whom are making their first appearance in the annual Top 12 list.


The Broad Institute has a fourth researcher on the list: genomics researcher Eric S. Lander.


Two materials professors from Manchester University in England earned spots in the Top 12: Andre K. Geim and Konstantin Novoselov.


Shizuo Akira of Osaka University, named by Thomson Reuters as the hottest researcher in 2005 and 2006, returned to the list this year with nine Hot Papers exploring toll-like receptors and aspects of innate immunity.


Rounding out the list are Carlo M. Croce from Ohio State University, Mikhail Katsnelson from Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and Ji-Huan He from Donghua University in Shanghai, China.


"Our annual roundup of researchers who have authored multiple Hot Papers allows us to recognize those who are leading scientific thought," said Christopher King, editor of Science Watch. "It is exciting to see several researchers make first-time appearances on the list."


Thomson Reuters Hot Papers are derived from its Web of Science(SM) database. A published work is identified as a Hot Paper if it is less than two years old and has achieved a rate of citations in scientific journals that is markedly higher than papers of comparable type and age. The researchers named have published the most Hot Papers in the latest two-year period indexed by Thomson Reuters for inclusion in Web of Science.


For a detailed list of the 2008-2009 hottest researchers and research papers, as well as expert analysis, visit ScienceWatch.com.


Here's the full list:





1. Rudolf Jaenisch
Whitehead Institute at MIT has 14 papers in Biochemistry.

2. Mark J. Daly
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has 13 papers in Genetics.

3. Andre K. Geim
University of Manchester has 13 in Materials.

4. David Altshuler
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has 13 papers in Genetics.

5. Konstantin Novoselov
University of Manchester has 12 papers in Materials.

6. Carlo M. Croce
Ohio State University has 12 papers in Cancer Genetics.

7. Goncalo Abecasis
University of Michigan has 10 papers in Biostatistics.

8. Eric S. Lander
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has 10 papers in Genomics.

9. Mikhail Katsnelson
Radboud University of Nijmegen has 10 papers in Materials.

10. Ji-Huan He
Donghua University has 10 papers in Mathematics.

11. Paul I.W. de Bakker
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has 9 papers in Genetics.

12. Shizuo Akira
Osaka University has 9 papers in Immunology.


About Thomson Reuters:

Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:TRI) . For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.


Source: Thomson Reuters

CONTACT: Susan Besaw, Manager, PR & Communications Healthcare & Science
of Thomson Reuters, +1-215-823-1840, susan.besaw@thomsonreuters.com


Web Site: Thomson Reuters


Saturday, February 27, 2010

Top 10 Companies Using Social Media Strategies for Financial Success

1. Starbucks

2. Dell

3. eBay

4. Google

5. Microsoft

6. Thomson Reuters

7. Nike

8. Amazon

9. SAP

10. Yahoo! and Intel



The results are in and social media is a winner. Social media has been heartily embraced by most of the world, and a new study from Engagementdb shows that when companies use social media and use it well, they are almost certain to reap quantifiable financial rewards.
This truly groundbreaking social media study written by
Charlene Li and Wetpaint, uses a robust statistical analysis to measure how Business Week’s top 100 brands are using social media to achieve financial success. The study’s goals were to measure “how deeply engaged the top 100 global brands are in a variety of social media channels and, more importantly, understand if higher engagement is correlated with financial performance”.


~ from Social Media Engagement Correlates To financial Performance


Another company thar has achieved remarkable success using social media is Nokia since the beginning of the Nokia Nseries Blogger Relations program.

View this video on YouTube - Blogger Meet-Up with Forum Nokia Champion Robin Jewsbury.