New York, U.S.A. – Elsevier, a provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of Health Care: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation.

“Health Care” provides a vehicle for communicating important advances in the study of cutting edge research on innovation in health care delivery, including improvements in systems, processes, management, payment, and applied information technology. The United States health care system is undergoing unprecedented reform; “Health Care” builds on examples to demonstrate how change happens in real-world settings, disseminating important ideas that inform and improve clinical practice by publishing innovative, high-quality research, reviews and opinions.

The leadership of the journal comes under three Senior co-Editors-in-Chief, all renowned experts on health care transformation: Arnold Milstein, Professor of Medicine at Stanford and Medical Director of the Pacific Business Group on Health; Richard Shannon, the Frank Wister Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; and Ashish Jha, C. Boden Gray Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health.

“This is a critical time for the U.S. health care system,” said Dr. Jha. “The need for thoughtful, high-quality empirical work to guide us has never been greater. “Health Care” will combine data-driven evaluations of current efforts with insightful commentary from the most innovative thinkers in the U.S.  We aim to make it an important force for fresh ideas on how to improve the healthcare delivery system.”

Founders of the journal and co-Editors-in-Chief are Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital who holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and The Wharton School of theUniversity of Pennsylvania, and Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA, a physician at the Boston Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Lecturer in Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, and Chief Medical Information and Innovation Officer at Merck.

Christine Cassel, the President of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a member of the journal’s editorial board, stated, “Health care delivery systems are advancing at an incredible pace. Physicians and other members of the health care team need help in translating these changes in health care delivery into broader practice. This new launch will provide the community with a high-quality journal in which to publish these advances and drive change.”

“Elsevier is pleased to work with the distinguished leadership of this journal to publish scholarly communication at the nexus of healthcare and technology,” said Ann Gabriel, Publishing Director at Elsevier. “The launch of this journal is very timely given the rapidly evolving landscape of health care delivery in the U.S.”

For more information or to submit an article, go to Health Care: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation.

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New York, U.S.A — Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced Ms. Maliaca Oxnam, Associate Librarian at the University of Arizona, as the winner of the first annual Elsevier Library Connect Charleston Conference Award for first time presenters.

Ms. Oxnam, a member of the University of Arizona Scholarly Publishing and Data Management Team, was selected by committee in a blind judging for her session entitled “Moving Technical Reports Forward: New Roles for Libraries & Librarians”; she is one of four co-presenters. Ms. Oxnam may apply her $1,500award to travel costs incurred to attend the 32nd Annual Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition, November 7-10, 2012.

Maliaca Oxnam said of her award, “Winning the Elsevier Library Connect Charleston Conference Award is a very welcome surprise. I want to thank Elsevier for its support, as this award will help me and my university to offset conference travel and registration costs. I am very appreciative to be given this opportunity to learn from library colleagues and to share my own experiences and knowledge with other librarians in the community.”

“This year’s Charleston Conference theme, ‘Accentuate the Positive’ is most reflective and applicable to Ms. Oxnam’s conference session,” said Maggie Farrell, one of the award judges and Dean of Libraries at the University of Wyoming. “Elsevier’s sponsorship of the award helps us celebrate the positive strides in knowledge facilitation made by librarians such as Ms. Oxnam, and puts the spotlight on collaboration and information-sharing achievements among librarians across the country.”

Each year more than 1,000 librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and library material vendors gather at the Charleston Conference. Following the conference, Ms. Oxnam will share her conference experience in the Library Connect Newsletter, a complimentary publication from Elsevier which reaches more than 16,000 subscribers worldwide.

In addition to the Library Connect Charleston Conference Award, Elsevier’s Library Connect Program now offers two US $1,500 travel sponsorships to librarian committees developing librarian-scientist programming at STEM conferences in any part of the world. The librarian committee will award the sponsorship to a librarian to cover conference fees and travel-related costs. The goal of the sponsorship program is to foster opportunities for enhanced communication among librarians and their user communities within STEM disciplines. Applications must be submitted by December 31, 2012, and travel completed by June 30, 2013.

For information on the sponsorships and how to apply, visit http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-travel-sponsorship.

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