Are you a librarian who collaborates with community groups to improve the health of your local community? Are you interested in health information outreach? Are you from a community based organization and interested in collaborating with libraries? Then, this webinar is for you.

The NN/LM NER will facilitate a Healthy Communities “Community of Interest” for our next contract (May 2011-2016). We hope you might join. The COI will include active participants and a learning community. Deborah Clark, Librarian and Director from the MaineHealth Learning Resource Center at Stephens Memorial Hospital, is the leader for the community of interest and Michelle Eberle, Consumer Health Coordinator with the NN/LM NER, is the convener.

We hope you can join us for a webinar on Thursday, March 24th from 2:30 – 3:30 PM to learn more about healthy communities, the COI, and some recent projects in the New England Region.

Guest speakers will share highlights of their projects working with community groups. The guest speakers include:

• Peter Droese, MassHealth Quality Office
• Gayle Kadlik, Heywood Hospital, Outreach to Faith Based Organizations
• Margot Malachowski, BayState Medical Center, Brightwood Centro de Salud Project and Springfield Public Library Project
• Terry Greene, JSI, Environmental Health Outreach

  Please join us! To register and get information how to access the webinar, go to:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/healthycommunitiesCOI

mHealth is the use of mobile devices for health purposes. What to learn more? Brian Dolan highlights “must read” mobile health reports in an April 2010 and a March 2011 blog postings.

Are you looking for an opportunity to learn more about mHealth? There will be a mHealth Summit in Maryland in December 2011.

HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects 2011
(RFQ No. NLM-0011-049-SES)

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. (more…)

PubMed Health is a new consumer health website brought to you by the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information of the National Library of Medicine). PubMed Health includes information on:
• comparative effectiveness
• diseases and conditions
• drugs and supplements
• first aid and emergencies
• healthy living and
• tests and treatments

The comparative effectiveness research is provided by the Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality. The ADAM Medical Encyclopedia is the source for most of the health topics. The drug information is from the American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists. Information from ADAM and the American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists is also available on MedlinePlus. Other sources of information on PubMed Health include InformedHealthOnline: Fact Sheets and Research Summaries from the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care and the PubMed Clinical Q & A: NCBI summaries of comparative effectiveness drug reports.

Take a look at PubMed Health at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/