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It Boils Down to Financial Incentive

Sep 03, 2008

In a PLoS Medicine Policy Forum, University of Pittsburgh Medical School health policy advocates offer their ideas on sharing biomedical research and health care data. Of greatest importance is getting researchers to understand how important it is in accelerating their research and scientific process in general. Centers should commit to sharing data through increased funding, rewarding contributions, and educating researchers, they write.

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