Celebrate the Blessing of a Healing Totem and its American Journey … You Are Invited!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon; Reception to follow
Fisher Pavilion at the Seattle Center [MAP]
Seattle, WA

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) in partnership with the University of Washington Libraries and the Native American Land Conservancy invite you and your friends to celebrate the blessing of a beautiful healing totem crafted by Lummi Indian master carver Jewell James. The NLM commissioned Mr. James to craft the totem in honor of a new exhibition focusing on Native views and definitions of health and illness. Our event at the Seattle Center will launch a series of totem blessings in cities and tribal communities as the totem travels to the Washington, DC area, finally being erected on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. Once in its permanent home, it will become a dramatic focal point of the new NLM exhibition, Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness, opening to the public October 6, 2011. (more…)

Last week a 30 minute webcast was held about MedlinePlus Connect: Linking Patient Portals and EHRs to Consumer Health Information and a recording is now available at https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p92647717/.

MedlinePlus Connect (http://medlineplus.gov/connect) allows patient portals, electronic health records (EHR), and other health IT systems to link to relevant, authoritative consumer health information from MedlinePlus.gov. MedlinePlus Connect accepts requests based on problem codes, medication codes, and lab test codes. It also supports the HL7 Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval (Infobutton) standard. Stephanie Dennis, MedlinePlus Connect project manager, gave an overview of MedlinePlus Connect, explained how to implement it, and explained the National Library of Medicine’s behind-the-scenes work to support it.

reposted from Public Health Emergency:

The National Library of Medicine has released Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM) http://chemm.nlm.nih.gov/ .

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The National Library of Medicine has formally launched MedlinePlus Connect. This free service allows health organizations and health information technology (HIT) providers to link patient portals and electronic health record (EHR) systems to MedlinePlus.gov, a trusted source of authoritative, up-to-date health information for patients, families and health care providers. MedlinePlus brings together information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other federal agencies, and reputable health information providers. MedlinePlus covers a wide range of health conditions and wellness issues, and includes key resources to inform patients about their health.

To learn more about MedlinePlus Connect please read the news release and visit http://medlineplus.gov/connect.

binary by zebtron on flickr

The Health Data Initiative Forum, known informally as the Health Datapalooza, is a showcase for innovative technology projects that use data in new ways to support public health, wellness and/or patient care. This year’s event, which took place on June 9 at the National Institutes of Health, was co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the Institute of Medicine. Here are just a few of the more than 45 projects featured at this year’s Forum.

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Winners have been announced in the National Library of Medicine’s video contest, “NLM & You.” Participants were asked to submit a video showing how an NLM product or service helped them. Winners were announced in the NLM Technical Bulletin on May 16, 2011.

Grand prize winner - James and the Peanut Allergy

Producer: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, in collaboration with the Biomedical Informatics Department. This video tells the story of 5th grader James using MedlinePlus to find information about his peanut allergy and make a report to his class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoCAizDEKlM&feature=player_embedded (more…)