S. Kalani Brady, MD, the primary care physician of the remaining Hansen’s disease (leprosy) patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii, will speak at the National Library of Medicine in honor of St. Damien’s Day on April 13, 2012, from 3:30-5:00pm EDT in Lister Hill Auditorium (National Institutes of Health Building 38A, Lister Hill Center, first floor). Dr. Brady’s talk is titled, “Kalaupapa and Father Damien: ‘Here I am send me.’” The program will stream live via NIH VideoCasting, with an on-demand archive and file download, to any computer on any network throughout the world.

Dr. Brady is an expert on Kalaupapa’s legacy, Father Damien (beatified as St. Damien by Pope John Paul II in 1995), and contemporary care issues. Interviews with Dr. Brady, as well as a patient and caregiver at Kalaupapa, are among the highlights of NLM’s current exhibition, Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness, on display at NLM through fall of 2013. There is also a section about Kalaupapa’s legacy within the exhibition.

St. Damien’s Day is an annual Hawaiian statewide holiday in commemoration of the priest who pioneered housing, food distribution, and health care for Kalaupapa’s residents at the end of the 19th century. From the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, about 8,000 persons with Hansen’s disease were exiled to Kalaupapa, a remote peninsula on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. The plight of Kalaupapa’s patients in the late 19th and early 20th century was chronicled by authors Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London.

Dr. Brady is an associate professor, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Department of Native Hawaiian Health, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and is chief of the medical staff, Kalaupapa Clinic. Dr. Brady is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and is board certified in internal medicine. He is also featured in a periodic segment that answers patient health questions on a Honolulu commercial television station and is a well-known musician in Hawaii.

The following free training in the Los Angeles area on April 20^th may be of interest to you or your library staff.

E-Resources in Health/US Census Report Mining: Two Half-day Workshops as a Daylong Training for Healthy Communities Partners

The intended audience includes community organizations, hospital and public library staff, and any others who would like an introduction to consumer health services and using U.S. Census data to help determine appropriate health programming and health information needs of the community.

The two sessions are an introduction to a series of self-paced tutorials that is currently being developed as a partnership between Infopeople, UC Davis, and NN/LM PSR.  The tutorials are based in part on the core competencies from “Finding Health and Wellness @ the Library: A Consumer Health Toolkit for Library Staff” and materials from the online class “Health and Wellness @ the Library: The Essentials of Providing Consumer Health Services.”

If you have any questions about the training sessions, please contact Kelli Ham at kkham@library.ucla.edu.

Here is the announcement from the CALIX list today:

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Space is still available in the LA area (Pio Pico branch of LAPL, Koreatown) and Bay Area (Fremont Public Library) sessions of E-Resources in Health/US Census Report Mining: Two Half-day Workshops as a Daylong Training for Healthy Communities Partners

Instructor: Francisca Goldsmith

Fee: Free for those in the California library community. *

• What pressing consumer health issues face your community?

• Are you confident in your knowledge of up-to-date, quality health resources that are most appropriate for library users with health questions?

• Are you faced with the challenges of finding quality health information in other languages or at understandable reading levels?

• Are you comfortable handling sensitive health reference questions?

• How can you mine Census information to help lead and support health reference and health programming at your library?

Build your awareness of the competencies and skills you need to plan and provide health-related library services. Upon completion of this course, you will be ready to pursue further health and wellness information via companion self-paced online modules.

Workshop Description: This day-long, on-ground training includes a morning session intended to increase your awareness of, and comfort with, accessing reliable and accessible health information on the Internet, and and an afternoon session aimed at exploiting the potential of the US Census website and other demographic resources to enhance your knowledge of local demographics. This is a hands-on training during which you will explore online, under the guidance of the instructor, who will provide individual and group exercises.  The instructor will supply sample evaluation templates, cheat sheets, and practical and useful tips for immediate application in your work.

To register and get more info about this workshop can be found here: http://infopeople.org/training/eresources-health-census

*Note about the Fee: Made possible by funding through the University of California Davis under award No. 06-43-B10584 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce, and offered at no charge to participants.  The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NIST or the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Travel costs will be reimbursed using the UC Davis Travel Reimbursement Requirements. An expense sheet will be provided to all attendees on the day of the workshop. For questions regarding reimbursements, please contact Kate Marie at kate.marie@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.

Check-in is 8:30 to 9:00 AM; instruction is 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

A new funding announcement offering support for informationists to work on NIH-funded research grants was published on the NIH Guide web site today. These supplements provide funds to researchers who have existing research grants from any of the Institutes listed in the announcement (NLM, NCI, NEI, NIA, NIAAA, NIBIB, NIDCD, NIDCR), to pay for adding an informationist to the project. The principal investigator of the grant must apply for this funding, so librarian/informationist colleagues in academic settings might want to identify partners of interest and reach out to them to suggest that they apply, or alert people with whom they already work. An easy way to find potential partners would be to use the NIH RePORTER resource to search by state and funding agency. Applications must be submitted electronically by the deadline of June 5, 2012. The earliest funding start date is September, 2012.

The purposes of the administrative supplement program are (1) to enhance collaborative, multi-disciplinary basic and clinical research by integrating an information specialist, also known as in-context information specialist, into the research team in order to improve the capture, storage, organization, management, integration, presentation, and dissemination of biomedical research data; and (2) to assess and document the value and impact of the informationist’s participation.

In a new press release from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a proposed rule that would delay the compliance date for ICD-10 from October 1, 2013 to October 1, 2014. The ICD-10 compliance date change and proposed rule would adopt a standard for a unique health plan identifier (HPID), adopt a data element that would serve as an “other entity” identifier (OEID), and add a National Provider Identifier (NPI) requirement. The proposed rule was developed by the Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS) as part of its ongoing role, delegated by HHS, to establish standards for electronic health care transactions under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Additional details about the proposed rule may be found on the CMS ICD-10 fact sheet.

The proposed changes would save the health care industry up to $4.6 billion over ten years by enabling greater automation of electronic health care transactions, in turn helping physicians spend less time interacting with health plans, and more time with patients. The proposed rule would implement several administrative simplification provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The proposed rule also would delay by one year, until Oct. 1, 2014, the date by which covered entities must comply with International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition diagnosis and procedure codes (ICD-10). Covered entities are defined in HIPAA as (1) health plans, (2) health care clearinghouses, and (3) health care providers who electronically transmit any health information in connection with a transaction for which HHS has adopted a standard.

Some provider groups have expressed serious concerns about their ability to meet the October 1, 2013 compliance date. CMS and HHS believe the change in the compliance date for ICD-10, as proposed in this rule, would give providers and other covered entities more time to prepare and fully test their systems to ensure a smooth and coordinated transition among all industry segments. Please visit the ICD-10 web site for the latest news and resources to help you prepare for a smooth transition!