Online Angel Investor Networks Provide Great Opportunities & Interesting Data

(Vocus/PRWEB) November 11, 2010

(Vocus) November 11, 2010 -- More and more entrepreneurs are turning to online angel networks to secure funding for their businesses. These portals give entrepreneurs a quick and easy way to present their projects to a large number of investors. These sites also give investors access to a comprehensive range of business ideas and investment opportunities.

Connecting business owners and investors online provides great opportunities for business entrepreneurs based outside of large metropolitan areas and business owners who dont have the right connections to get in contact with angels. These online networks give anyone with a great idea the chance to get the funding they need to get their business off the ground or expand.

Angel Investment Network Ltd, has noticed a big difference in the sectors where people are looking for funding, and the sectors that are getting funded. Data from the University of New Hampshires Center for Venture Research shows the largest area of focus for US angel investors in the first half of 2010 was healthcare services and medical devices/equipment, accounting for 24% of investments. That was followed by biotechnology (20%), software (12%), industrial/energy (11%), retail (9%) and media (5%).

However, Mike Lebus (director of Angel Investment Network Ltd said, "The sector where were getting the most funding applications at the moment is Internet & eCommerce which makes up 7.99% of all the business plans we receive. The next highest were Technology with 7.03% and Food & Beverage with 6.32%. In fact, Medical & Health Care, the area getting the most funding from angels, is right down in 9th place."

He continued, "Its also interesting to look at the variations from country to country. In the UK, for example, Internet & eCommerce is the runaway winner with 13.21% - the same as the US. But the next most popular industry among http://www.midwestinvestmentnetwork.com business entrepreneurs looking to raise capital was Leisure & Tourism with 7.77%, which doesnt even feature in the top 10 in our US networks."

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EBSCO Publishing Partners with the Canadian Medical Association to Provide Continuing Medical Education Credits via DynaMed

Ipswich, MA (PRWEB) May 05, 2011

EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has partnered with the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) to provide institutional access to Mainpro MI educational credits via DynaMed, an evidence-based reference resource. The integration of DynaMed with the Canadian Medical Association system enables physicians to use DynaMed for research and quickly and easily earn Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits.

Representing more than 74,000 of Canadas physicians, the Canadian Medical Association is the only association that offers automatic transfer of credits to The College of Family Physicians Canada (CFPC). DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care. DynaMed contains clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics; the database is updated daily and can be integrated into electronic health records.

The new partnership with DynaMed enables the CMA to help physicians work towards obtaining their credits through a self-reflective look at their practice while earning continuing medical education credits. Institutional access provides a direct link from clinical summaries within DynaMed to their CMA account to submit searches and receive Mainpro MI educational credits

Stratton Lloyd, vice president of medical market development at EBSCO Publishing, says incorporating CME credits into DynaMed is an essential part of DynaMeds goal to provide clinicians with the best available evidence. DynaMed was created to serve the needs of healthcare professionals. Allowing users to incorporate education into their practice on a daily basis is a natural extension of the DynaMed mission. Institutional access to DynaMed provides clinicians in Canada with a streamlined way to access continuing medical education within the clinical workflow.

CMA members may access DynaMed at http://www.cma.ca/clinicalresources/dynamed. Institutions currently subscribing to DynaMed may have the new CMA CME feature turned on within their subscription at no additional charge. Additional information about DynaMed is available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed.

About EBSCO Publishing

EBSCO Publishing is the worlds premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). The companys product lines include proprietary databases such as CINAHL