Check out the June issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research. In this edition:

It’s a Kid’s Job
Playing Helps Kids Learn and Grow
Research shows that active, creative play benefits just about every aspect of child development. Play, it turns out, is essential to growing up healthy.
Read more about the benefits of playtime.

Catching a Cold When It’s Warm
What’s the Deal with Summertime Sniffles?
Summer’s a time to get away, get outside and have some fun. So what could be more unfair than catching a cold when it’s warm? Is there any way to dodge the summertime sniffles?
Read more about summertime colds.

Health Capsules:

• Skip the Test Before Incontinence Surgery?
• Bilingual Effects in the Brain
• Featured Website: National Kidney Disease Education Program

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Sheldon Kotzin has decided to retire from his long, productive career at NLM at the end of June.  NLM is seeking applicants for his position.

The National Library of Medicine is recruiting for the position of Associate Director for Library Operations, a career position in the Senior Executive Service.  A description of the position, qualification requirements and application procedures are outlined in the vacancy announcement, which opened yesterday and is available on USAJOBS via the NIH Executive Jobs Website at:

http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/317451800

Please share this with anyone who may be interested in and qualified for the position.  The vacancy is open to all qualified candidates.  Applications must be received by the closing of July 16, 2012.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

ICD-9-CM to SNOMED CT Map

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/mapping_projects/icd9cm_to_snomedct.html

Medical Heritage Library Awarded NEH Grant for Digitization of Historical Medical Journals

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/neh_grant.html

National Library of Medicine Releases Free iPad App, “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness”

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/native_voices_app.html

New Look, New Collections for IndexCat Database

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj12/mj12_indexcat.html

Spring 2012 issue of NIH MedlinePlus the Magazine features US Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/

NLM DIRECTOR’S PODCASTS

Goal Oriented Patient Care

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript051412.html

NIH MedlinePlus Magazine Spring 2012

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript052112.html

NLM IN THE NEWS

3M Opens Access to the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary under Agreement with U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/3m-opens-access-to-the-3m-healthcare-data-dictionary-under-agreement-with-us-departments-of-defense-and-veterans-affairs-2012-05-16?reflink=MW_news_stmp

14 ways Social Media may soon change your doctor’s visit

http://thecypresstimes.com/2012/05/15/14-ways-social-media-change-doctors-visit/

72 Medical APIs: Avvo, National Library of Medicine and NHS

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2012/05/16/72-medical-apis-avvo-national-library-of-medicine-and-nhs/

Archive Watch: Build a National Cooperative for Archival Standards

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/archive-watch-building-a-national-cooperative-for-archival-standards/36368

Civil War Traveling Exhibit on display in Augusta [Georgia]

http://www2.wjbf.com/news/2012/may/21/civil-war-exhibit-display-augusta-ar-3833688

Does colour variation speed up evolution in birds?

http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/does-colour-variation-speed-up-evolution-in-birds-20120514-1ymn0.html

Flu and Miscellaneous Medical/Health Site

http://www.journaliststoolbox.org/archive/2012/04/flu-and-miscellaneous-medicalhealth-sites.html

GHSU [Georgia Health Sciences University] hosts Civil War exhibit honoring African American nurses, surgeons GHSU hosts Civil War exhibit honoring African American nurses, surgeons

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript052112.html

Indiana University SLIS Alumnus Sheldon Kotzin to Retire

http://slis.iu.edu/news/story.php?story_id=2401

It’s All in the Translation

http://www.americannursetoday.com/Article.aspx?id=9100&fid=9022

Librarianship: Two New Open Access Journals

http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/hsl/2012/05/18/librarianship-two-new-open-access-journals/

Medical Heritage Library Awarded NEH Grant for Digitization of Historical Medical Journals

http://www.infodocket.com/2012/05/23/medical-heritage-library-awarded-neh-grant-for-digitization-of-historical-medical-journals/

Native Voices tells stories of medicine, healing, and cultures

http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/rche/news/view.php?id=1468

NIH Directors Take Their Own Health Advice

http://www.wusa9.com/news/photo-gallery.aspx?storyid=204440

NIH in History: Hidden Treasures Discovered in Building 38: Proof That NLM is NIH’s Own Treasure Island

http://irp.nih.gov/catalyst/v20i3/nih-in-history

[Dr. Steven] Phillips ’62 Receives Tufts Award

http://www.hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=15398

Touch of Life Technologies’ New Cystoscopy and Bladder Injection Simulator Offers Urologists Training on Use of BOTOX(R) (onabotulinumtoxinA) as Treatment for Urinary Incontinence in Adults With Neurological Conditions

http://on.mktw.net/Jf7wMX

Visit ‘Harry Potter’s World’ at UCSD [University of California, San Diego]

http://lemongrove.patch.com/articles/visit-harry-potters-world-at-ucsd

Why clinical research should be freely exchanged

http://i2p.com.au/article/why-clinical-research-should-be-freely-exchanged

NEW IN NLM IN FOCUS

The Bard Comes to NLM

http://infocus.nlm.nih.gov/2012/05/the-bard-comes-to-nlm.html

The Federal Communications Commission on approved new rules to allow greater use of the spectrum for Medical Body Area Network, or MBAN, devices.  FCC commissions said that “this technology has tremendous potential to untether patients from tubes and wires, and improve the quality of health care and ensure better outcomes for patients.”
http://www.fcc.gov/document/medical-body-area-networks-first-report-and-order
http://tinyurl.com/7jlmdhj

You all may find this of interest:

http://www.publiclibrariesonline.org/magazines/featured-articles/connecting-public-libraries-community-emergency-responders.

The 2012 Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities is now accepting abstracts for concurrent sessions.  All abstracts must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on June 15, 2012.  For more information, visit http://www.nimhd.nih.gov/summit_site/abstracts.html.

*** The Disaster Information Specialist monthly meeting is open to everyone ***

The June Disaster Information Specialist Adobe Connect session will be Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 1:30 PM ET.  See connection information below.

Our guest speaker will be Wendy Harman, Social Media Manager at the American Red Cross.  Wendy will be speaking about the Red Cross Digital Operations Center which recently was launched to monitor and respond to social media during disaster situations.  As part of this project, the Red Cross is planning to train “digital volunteers” to verify and curate the large volume of information generated on social media during a disaster.  These volunteers will help build situational awareness, and respond online to questions from the public and distribute critical information.(Role for librarians?!)

We will be broadcasting the meeting on Adobe Connect at the Digital Operations Center.

To join the meeting at 1:30 pm ET, Thursday, June 14 click on:  https://webmeeting.nih.gov/disinfo

Enter your name in the guest box and click  “Enter Room”. A box should pop up asking for your phone number.  Enter your phone number and the system will call you.

For those who cannot use the call-back feature, the dial-in information is below.

Dial-In:  1-888-757-2790

Pass-Code: 745907

If you have never attended a Connect Pro meeting before:

Test your connection: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

Get a quick overview: http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_overview

Elizabeth Norton, MLS, MPH, MBA

Librarian

Disaster Information Management Research Center

Specialized Information Services Division

National Library of Medicine

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD 20892-5467

301-443-9420

nortone@nlm.nih.gov

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released two more audio interviews in a series focused on the use of quality improvement tools in the AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit for Hospitals.  The toolkit is a free resource to guide hospitals through the process of using the AHRQ Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs) and Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) to improve care.

• Analyzing Your IQI and PSI Rates:   Amelia Haviland from Carnegie Mellon University talks about several considerations involved in analyzing and working with your IQI and PSI rates.
• Using the Documentation and Coding Tool:  Kathy Vermoch and Suzanne Rogers from UHC discuss strategies that hospitals can put in place to improve their documentation and coding, both of which are critical to the accuracy of AHRQ Quality Indicator rates.

Download these interviews at http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qitoolkitinterviews. (Audio file and transcript are available.)

Also available: Getting Started with the AHRQ QI Toolkit

• Future podcasts will address the following topics:
• Identifying Your Improvement Priorities
• Analyzing Your Barriers and Strategy Options
• Implementing Changes to Improve Performance on the IQI or PSI Measures
• Achieving Sustainable Improvements

Download the AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit for Hospitals at:  http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qitoolkit

Access the slide presentations and an audio recording from an introductory Webinar about the Toolkit at:  http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qitoolkit/webinar0215/index.html

More information on the AHRQ Quality Indicators is available at:  http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/.