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CloseClinical is a portal which aims at connecting scholars and business people interested in healthl informatics and clinical research informatics to each other. Subscription is free and without engagement. It allows you to access many more functions such as participating in forums, making job inquieries, and advertising for your software.

As a post graduate student of medical informatics, I was interested to know about projects, products, and services in my field of study. Many scientific websites such as those of healthl informatics associations provide information about past and ongoing scientific projects. However, many scientific projects never get out of universities to be deployed in real life, and on the other hand, many successful scientific projects are accomplished by the industry without passing through universities.

I was also interested in finding companies and people who are interested in health informatics or clinical research. Unfortuanely, finding this information was not easy, because of many reasons:

• Health informatics is rather a new branch of science and many people don't even know what it is about.
• A lot of successful healthl informatics and clinical research informatics projects are accomplished by people who did not officially graduated from a medical informatics or bioinformatics course!
• Many projects in this field are done in universities as academic work; and as a result, they are not advertised.
• Companies which are involved in medical informatics and bioinformatics are either very small - therefore they are still unknown- or very big - and therefore they are known for more general fields that they cover, such as software development or medical devices.

The objective of this website is to provide a portal which would allow students, scientists, doctors, engineers and users of medical informatics and bioinformatics to find products, services, and jobs. My secondary objective is to facilitate connections between specialists, companies, and fans of medical informatics, bioinformatics and clinical research informatics.

If you want to participate, please send me a message, or just register. Being registered allows you participate in the forum, find people, write reviews on a special topic or software, and even advertise your product.

Dr Massoud Toussi, MD, PhD

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