Knowledge Services and the Role of Medical Libraries in Healthcare IT

John D. Halamka, MD, MS, will give the 2010 Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lecture on Wednesday, May 26, at 2:00 pm at the Lister Hill Center Auditorium at the National Library of Medicine.

Dr. Halamka is the Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School. In addition, Dr. Halamka participates on several state and national committees. He serves as Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), and is the current the Chair of the U.S. Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) and co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee. He also authors a blog: Life as a Healthcare CIO.

The lecture will be recorded and broadcast live on the Web to Medical Library Association members and the NIH community at http://videocast.nih.gov.

The Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lecture was established in 1983 to stimulate intellectual liaison between the Medical Library Association and the National Library of Medicine.

The freely available PubMed API (application programming interface) makes it possible for programmers from outside of the National Library of Medicine to develop alternatives to PubMed.gov for searching NLM’s vast database of biomedical journal literature citations. In this guest post, super searcher Kristine Ogden describes two third-party PubMed tools, HubMed and Quertle, and explains how they can be useful for specialized searching.

by Kristine Ogden
ICON Clinical Research

I’m a researcher and PubMed is my first stop when I need to find relevant biomedical literature. It offers broad, international coverage and its MEDLINE subset is a well-regarded source for indexed citations. But recently, I’ve been keeping my eye on two third-party websites that offer the ability to search and interact with PubMed data: HubMed and Quertle.  Although neither of these tools has knocked PubMed from its place as my preferred search site, they do feature several helpful functions that are not available on the NCBI-maintained PubMed website. As a consequence, I find myself visiting HubMed and Quertle to help augment my PubMed searches. Hopefully, this little summary of HubMed and Quertle will pique your interest and prompt some exploration of these two web sites. Happy searching!

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Here at NN/LM PNR, we’re experimenting with social media as one of several ways we communicate with Network members and work to spread the word about health information resources, programs, and services. We invite you to follow us on Twitter, be our fan on Facebook, and let us know what kinds of information you would like to see in those places.

If you are new to social media or just new to thinking about it in a professional context, take a look at our self-paced online Social Networking tutorial. This tutorial was originally part of the Geeks Bearing Gifts course offered to health information professionals and public health professionals in Fall 2009. To access the tutorial, go to:

http://nnlm.gov/moodle/course/view.php?id=85

and click log in as guest.

Join your colleagues on Wednesday, March 24th from 11am-1pm (Pacific time) for the Medical Library Association (MLA) webcast Now’s the Time: Understanding the Electronic Health Record Maze and Health Sciences Librarians’ Roles.  The goal of this program is to clarify the terminology surrounding the emerging electronic health information environment and to illustrate how and why health sciences librarians can and should become engaged with the efforts to achieve the national 2014 goal of instituting an electronic health record for each person in the United States. Presenters include Margaret Bandy, AHIP; Janice Willis, Sara Pimental, AHIP; David Sweet, Elaine Alligood, Kelly Near and Annette Williams.

The Pacific Northwest Region (PNR) will host the webcast at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library, LTL.  If you will join us for the webcast at UW please register at http://tinyurl.com/PNRWebcastReg.

In Spokane, WA the webcast will be presented at the Riverpoint Campus, room SAC 249, hosted by the Inland Northwest Health Sciences Libraries (INWHSL). Pre-Registration is required via  http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB22ABZD75L7C and parking permits are available if needed.
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In Oregon, the webcast will be presented at the Portland State University Library in Portland, hosted by the Oregon Health & Sciences University.

This entry will be updated with additional location information as it becomes available. We look forward to seeing you there!

Are you interesting in improving your document delivery service through better performance by your scanner? Don’t miss this informative session.

Join our free RML Rendezvous webcast on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 1pm Pacific Time (2pm Mountain, noon Alaska) at https://webmeeting.nih.gov/rendezvous:

Not Through a Glass, Darkly: Tips and Tricks for Optimal Scanner Settings by Mary Van Court, Library Supervisor at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library.

As part of our Federal agency services regarding electronic and information technology resources being accessible to people with disabilities, closed captioning is now available on this and all future RML Rendezvous webcasts. If you are hearing impaired and in need of closed captioning, please contact Patricia Devine at devine@u.washington.edu by Monday, March 8 so we may gladly arrange for this service.

We look forward to seeing you at the webcast! For more information please visit How do I connect to the Rendezvous? to test your computer connection.

As many know, Linda Milgrom, the RML’s Outreach Coordinator will be retiring on March 1, 2010.

To celebrate her long and wonderful career, we gave her a party. Guests included former RML and HSLers, as well as her family (even from faraway Washington DC)! It was a festive occasion, complete with a kazoo serenade to send her off in Italian style (think: That’s Amore!). Check out photos from the party on flickr.

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