Subcommittee Hearing: Emergency MGMT 2.0: How #SocialMedia & New Tech are Transforming Preparedness, Response, & Recovery #Disasters #Part1 #Privatesector

• Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications
• 311 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515
• June 4, 2013 10:00 am
• http://homeland.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-emergency-mgmt-20-how-socialmedia-new-tech-are-transforming

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NLM Announces New Funding Opportunity: Disaster Health Information Outreach and Collaboration Projects 2013:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/disaster_funding_opportunity.html

NLM Announces the New Director of Acquisitions:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/hartinger_appointment.html

NLM Lends from Its Historical Collections to The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition “Search for the Unicorn”:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/NLMtCoMMA.html

NLM Library Operations Division Announces Two Appointments: John Kilbourne and Dianne Babski:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/lo_appointments_2013.html

NLM’s Sappol and Reznick Honored by ALHHS; Medical Heritage Library Also Honored:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/hmd_staff_honored.html

NLM to Participate in Health Datapalooza IV:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/datapaloza_iv.html

NLM DIRECTOR’S PODCASTS 

ABIM: Avoid these Medical Tests:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript050613.html

Boston Marathon explosions @ NLM’s People Finder:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript041913.html

Early Stroke Increases Mortality Risk:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript052013.html

Internet Search Provides Early Warning of Drug Interaction:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript051313.html

Lessons from Boston’s Emergency Medical Response:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript042913.html

NLM IN THE NEWS

Battlefield Innovations Boost Medical Care from Baghdad to Boston: http://www.healthimaging.com/topics/imaging-informatics/battlefield-innovations-boost-medical-care-baghdad-boston

Ebix To Deliver Multimedia Health Content on Bing:  http://nz.finance.yahoo.com/news/ebix-deliver-multimedia-health-content-120000892.html

Every Necessary Care and Attention:  https://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2013/scout-130419#12

Henkel Physicians:  http://events.detroitnews.com/ann_arbor_mi/events/show/310870663-henkel-physicians

In search of medical riches:  http://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2013/05/21/cmaj.130095

National Library of Medicine Digital Collections API Profile:  http://www.programmableweb.com/api/national-library-of-medicine-digital-collections

NIH Mourns Sheldon Cohen [please scroll down]:  http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2013/04_26_2013/milestones.htm

NLM suggests digital ‘go-bag’ with apps for emergencies:  http://www.fiercemobilegovernment.com/story/nlm-suggests-digital-go-bag-apps-emergencies/2013-04-30

ONS: Health IT as a Tool for Improved, Patient-Centric Care:  http://www.cancernetwork.com/conference-reports/ons2013/content/article/10165/2139770

Open Science, Open Data, Open Access:  http://www.bio-itworld.com/2013/4/16/open-science-open-data-open-access.html

Postpartum depression resources:  http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/22079394/2013/04/25/post-partum-depression-resources

Presentations: Updates About National Library of Medicine Products and Services Including PubMed and MedlinePlus:  http://www.infodocket.com/2013/05/09/presentations-updates-about-national-library-of-medicine-products-and-services-including-pubmed-and-medlineplus/

Remarkable Growth of Open Access in the Biomedical Field: Analysis of PubMed Articles from 2006 to 2010:  http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0060925?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+plosone%2FPLoSONE+%28PLOS+ONE+Alerts%3A+New+Articles%29

Scientists Study Genome of H7N9 Isolates:  http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2013/04/scientists-study-genome-of-h7n9-isolates.aspx

Sheldon G. Cohen, immunologist:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/sheldon-g-cohen-immunologist/2013/04/19/af0e3144-a769-11e2-b029-8fb7e977ef71_story.html

Students get firsthand look at health careers:  http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/students-get-firsthand-look-at-health-careers/article_10269ddf-1475-53c0-86bc-28dc15dc8a82.html

Teen is 1 in a million:  http://www.necn.com/05/11/13/Teen-is-1-in-a-million/landing_health.html?&apID=74cccbb24343409b8332596e66c58a48

The Content Matters Interview Series: Dr. Sylvia Chou of the National Cancer Institute:  http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/04/the-content-matters-interview-series-dr-sylvia-chou-of-the-national-cancer-institute/

Unprecedented Licensing Agreement to Spark Economic Growth and Discovery in Health IT:  http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130419-909669.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

U.S. COLORED TROOPS DURING THE CIVIL WAR [Gettysburg College symposium on C-SPAN]:  http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/311639-2

U.S. National Library of Medicine’s Fred Wood:  http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/u-s-national-library-of-medicine-s-fred-wood/image_2c69dc94-caca-59fc-8b52-2edfd20af5ed.html

WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER, EVER SELF-DIAGNOSIS USING GOOGLE:  http://blogs.phillymag.com/bewellphilly/2013/04/26/never-ever-self-diagnosis-google/

NEW OR UPDATED MEDLINEPLUS TOPICS AND FEATURES

Spring 2013 Issue of NIH MedlinePlus the magazine:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/spring13/toc.html

Overactive Bladder:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/overactivebladder.html

Vejiga hiperactiva:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/overactivebladder.html

NEW FROM SIS

TOXNET TRI and TOXMAP now include the 2011 Toxics Release Inventory data, the most current US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data available.

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), a resource of the EPA, is a set of publicly available databases containing information on releases of specific toxic chemicals and their management as waste, as reported annually by US industrial and federal facilities.

The target audience for the new DSLD is researchers, whereas consumers are the intended users of the current NLM version.

Comprehensiveness:  The goal of new DSLD is to capture all the dietary supplement products marketed in the U.S. The rate of data input is 1,000 labels per month.  The initial release will contain 17,000 labels. The new DSLD is aiming for ~ 50,000 labels (the estimated number of products on the market in US) in 5 years. The current NLM version has 8,000 labels.  It has been updated at the rate of 1,000 new labels per year.

Data:  The new DSLD captures data on the dietary supplements labels and store the data elements in a highly normalized relational database schema.  This schema allows searching, sorting, and filtering capability needed by researchers.  The current NLM version stores the label data in less granular fashion.

Images:  The new DSLD comes with images of the labels.  The current NLM version does not provide images.

Data Rights:  The new DSLD data is in the public domain.  The current NLM version gets licensed data from DeLima Associates.

Controlled vocabulary:  The new DSLD will be indexed with the LanguaL controlled vocabulary in the next phase. LanguaL is a classification system for food and nutrition information.  The current NLM version is not indexed with controlled vocabulary.

Update schedule:  The new DSLD will be updated monthly, with new 1,000 new labels and images of the labels.  The current NLM version has been updated with 1,000 new labels per year.

Maintenance:  ODS contracts with Therapeutic Research Faculty (TRF) to acquire label data and images.  The data is populated at TRF, and imported into NLM database monthly.

Where do the labels come from?  TRF has ongoing relationships and outreach program with manufacturers to obtain dietary supplement labels.

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is pleased to announce an exciting new career opportunity within the Office of the Director. This position will serve as the Director for the Office of Special Populations. The NIA is responsible for conducting research activities dedicated to understanding the nature of aging, supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults, and extending healthy, active years of life for more people. As the Director, Office of Special Populations, you will develop initiatives to enhance the research and training efforts targeting underrepresented minorities and women and provide advice and guidance to senior staff on matters on health research related to special populations.  To apply to this job opportunity or for more information about this position, eligibility criteria, and application process, please visit the Federal government’s official job website, USAJobs at www.usajobs.gov. The announcement numbers are: NIH-NIA-DE-13-887382 (opened to all candidates) and NIH-NIA-MP-13-887083 (opened to Status/Government candidates). The opening date of the official announcement is Tuesday, June 4^, 2013 and will close on Thursday, June 13, 2013.

For questions about this position, please contact Dr. Marie Bernard at 301-496-0216 or  mbernard@nia.nih.gov . For questions about the application process please contact Jessica Schwartz at 301-402-7719 or schwartzj@mail.nih.gov.

Both NLM and MAR will be closed on Monday, May 27 in observance of Memorial Day.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has posted details about the Administration’s Project Open Data.  It is described as “an online, public repository intended to foster collaboration and promote the continual improvement of the Open Data Policy.”  The policy was announced on May 9 and focuses on managing government information as an asset to “increase operational efficiencies, reduce costs, improve services, support mission needs, safeguard personal information, and increase public access to valuable government information.”

http://tinyurl.com/aoadnjs
http://tinyurl.com/d7slvxr

Dr. Michael Gottesman, NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research, wrote an essay posted by the New England Journal of Medicine on “The Role of the NIH in Nurturing Clinician-Scientists.”

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1302969?query=featured_home

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the solicitation of quotations from organizations and libraries to design and conduct projects that will improve access to HIV/AIDS related health information for patients, the affected community, and their caregivers.

Projects must involve one or more of the following information access categories:

• Information retrieval;
• Skills development;
• Resource development; and/or
• Equipment Acquisition.

Emphasis is placed upon the following types of organizations or arrangements for developing these programs:

• Community-based organizations (CBOs) or patient advocacy groups currently providing HIV/AIDS related serves to the affected community;
• Public libraries serving communities in the provision of HIV/AIDS-related information and resources;
• Health departments or other local, municipal, or state agencies working to improve public health;
• Faith-based organizations currently providing HIV/AIDS-related services; and/or
• Multi-type consortia of the above-listed organizations that may be in existence or formed specifically for this project.

Awards are offered for up to $40,000.

Quotations are due to NLM on Thursday, July 18, 2013.

The solicitation for the 2013 HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects is posted on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site (www.fbo.gov).

Full and Open:

Solicitation #: NIHLM2013704(B)

https://www.fbo.gov/index?mode=form&id=d28fc7304b80a5cebce5656aa6710733&tab=ntype

Small Businesses Set-Aside:

Solicitation #: NIHLM2013704(A)

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=01753a19b4150f0a9c763369fa08bce1&tab=core&_cview=1

Primary Point of Contact:
Keturah D. Busey, Business Opportunity Specialist
buseyk@mail.nlm.nih.gov
Phone: 301-496-6546
Fax: 301-402-8169

Secondary Point of Contact:
Robin D. Hope, Contracting Officer
rhwilli@mail.nih.gov
Phone: 301-435-4379
Fax: 301-402-8169

Please Note: Refer to the Federal Business Opportunities (www.fbo.gov) Web site for notices, updates, and modifications to the HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Project 2013 RFQ.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces a funding opportunity for small projects to improve access to disaster medicine and public health information for health care professionals, first responders and others that play a role in health-related disaster preparedness, response and recovery.

NLM is soliciting proposals from partnerships that include at least one library and at least one non-library organization that has disaster-related responsibilities, such as health departments, public safety departments, emergency management departments, prehospital and emergency medical services, fire/rescue, or other local, regional, or state agencies with disaster health responsibilities; hospitals; faith-based and voluntary organizations active in disaster; and others.

NLM is looking for submission of innovative proposals that enhance mutually beneficial collaboration among libraries and disaster-related agencies. For example, projects may increase awareness of health information resources, demonstrate how libraries and librarians can assist planners and responders with disaster-related information needs, show ways in which disaster workers can educate librarians about disaster management, and/or include collaboration among partners in developing information resources that support planning and response to public health emergencies.  Summaries of the projects  funded in 2011 and 2012 can be viewed at http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/disasterinfofunding.html.

Contract awards will be offered for a minimum of $15,000 to a maximum of $30,000 each for a one-year project.

The deadline for responses is Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 2 pm ET. Responses are limited to six pages plus supplemental materials such as resumes, letters of support, and a budget.

The solicitation notice can be found on FedBizOpps: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=bce51d2baaeac33d108448c146128771&tab=core&_cview=0

For more information and instructions about the “Disaster Health Information Outreach and Collaboration Project 2013”, please visit http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/2013disasteroutreachrfq.html.

The National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov) is the world’s largest biomedical library and provides extensive online health information resources. Visit the NLM Disaster Information Management Research Center site (http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov ) to learn more about disaster-related health information from WISER (hazardous materials information for emergency responders), REMM-Radiation Emergency Medical Management, CHEMM-Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management, and other resources.

Elizabeth Norton

Librarian

Disaster Information Management Research Center

Specialized Information Services

National Library of Medicine

6707 Democracy Blvd Suite 510

Bethesda, MD 20892

301-443-9420

nortone@nlm.nih.gov

New article from JMLA:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3634377/