The National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR), a component of the National Library of Medicine, is very pleased to announce the following 2-part free webinar series:

Part I: HTA 101: 2011 Update on Introduction to Health Technology Assessment – Wednesday, August 31st, 1:00-2:00pm EST

Part II: CER-HTA-PCOR: Converging on What Works for Patients – Wednesday, Sept.7th, 1:00-2:00pm EST

Clifford (Cliff) Goodman, Senior Vice President and Principal, the Lewin Group has developed two informative sessions to update and inform you in a brief overview of the tools and techniques currently being used in health technology assessment and the focus on patient-centered outcomes.

URL for descriptions of the HTA: 101 and Comparative Effectiveness Research: a 2-Part Webinar Series http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/htawebinars/index.html.  No registration required. Titles will be live links on day of event.

The RML now houses a collection of monographic and media titles in support of professional development in the SE/A region. These materials circulate for free via DOCLINE. Topics include but are not limited to grant-writing, consulting, technology in libraries, website usability, evaluation, and library marketing. Additionally, SE/A is collecting DVDs of MLA webinars and titles. The DVDs are currently being processed but when available will be viewable for MLA CE credit.

Instructions for ordering from the collection and getting MLA CE Credit are available on the NN/LM SE/A website .

Titles in the collection:

A guide to developing end user education programs in medical libraries / Elizabeth Connor, editor.

ABCs of e-books [videorecording] : strategies for the medical library.

Addressing patients’ health literacy needs.

Answering consumer health questions : the Medical Library Association guide for reference librarians / Michele Spatz.

Answers to the health questions people ask in libraries / Laura Townsend Kane, Rozalynd P. McConnaughy, Steven Patrick Wilson ; with David L. Townsend.

Applications of social research methods to questions in information and library science / Barbara M. Wildemuth.

Basic training for trainers : a handbook for new trainers / Gary Kroehnert.

Beyond bullet points : using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to create presentations that inform, motivate, and inspire / Cliff Atkinson

Bienvenidos! = Welcome! : a handy resource guide for marketing your library to Latinos / Susannah Mississippi Byrd ; foreword by Carol Brey-Casiano.

Bit literacy : productivity in the age of information and e-mail overload / by Mark Hurst.

Blueprint for your library marketing plan : a guide to help you survive and thrive / by Patricia H. Fisher and Marseille M. Pride ; with assistance from Ellen G. Miller.

Building digital libraries : a how-to-do-it manual / Terry Reese, Jr., Kyle Banerjee.

Business cases for info pros : here’s why, here’s how / Ulla de Stricker.

Conflict management for libraries : strategies for a positive, productive workplace / Jack G. Montgomery and Eleanor I. Cook ; with contributions from Pat Wagner and Glenda Hubbard.

Creating a comprehensive information literacy plan : a how-to-do-it manual and CD-ROM for librarians / Joanna M. Burkhardt, Mary C. MacDonald, Andree J. Rathemacher.

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The Office of the National Coordinator just released their open source Health IT Curriculum. The curriculum materials are now available to the public on the NTDC website at http://www.onc.ntdc.info. You can also download the course blueprints.

http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=1807&parentname=CommunityPage&parentid=13&mode=2&in_hi_userid=11673&cached=true

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is pleased to announce that a set of 20 curriculum components is now available to the public at no cost, including all institutions of higher education nationwide and internationally. Funded by the $10 million ONC Curriculum Development Centers Program, these teaching materials have been in use for the past year by the 82 member colleges of the ONC Community College Consortia Program. It is expected that these materials will fill an urgent need in the educational marketplace.

Designed around the six mobile workforce roles identified by ONC, the components are intended to become the building blocks of health IT courses at community colleges and universities. In-service training and continuing education programs at health care institutions and Regional Extension Centers may also benefit from the use of the components. Each component is made up of several units that can be modified and combined to meet the needs of instructors as they design their courses. The components include slide-based lectures with audio narration and transcripts, learning activities, self-assessment questions with answer keys, and instructor manuals.

The components cover topics such as workflow process redesign, technical support, networking, usability, and project management, among others. Three of the components offer a hands-on lab experience for students supported by the VistA for Education electronic health record software package, also available at no cost.

Totaling over seven gigabytes of information across more than 200 units, these innovative teaching materials offer a robust new set of tools for health IT instructors.

To obtain the materials, go to http://www.onc-ntdc.info to set up a profile and download the components.

Visit the http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=1807&mode=2 to learn more about the Curriculum Development Centers Program and other ONC health IT workforce development programs.

Please join the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association, October 10-12, 2011, at the Omni Richmond Hotel in Richmond, Virginia, where we will “Capitalize on our Strengths.”

This year’s conference promises an exciting lineup of speakers, including:

• Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Health Communications Program at Tufts University School of Medicine
• Pat Wagner, a well-known educator, trainer, and consultant for the library community
• Molly Shadel, co-author of the recent book, Tongue-Tied America

Take advantage of one of the excellent continuing education classes being offered at this year’s meeting:

• EBM and the Medical Librarian, Parts I & II, instructed by Connie Schardt
• Patient and Caregiver Tools: Navigating Your Healthcare & Saving your Sanity, instructed by Ann Deusing
• Promoting Health Literacy through Easy-to-Read Materials, instructed by Nancy Patterson and Terri Ottosen
• Your Library’s Value: Needs Assessment, Program Development, Program Evaluation, instructed by Cindy Olney

For more information about the conference, or to register, please visit the 2011 MAC-MLA Conference Web site.

Registration is closed for this BeyondtheSEA – a recording of the webinar will be available in a couple of days (6/23/11)

We are sorry that some attendees encountered technical issues on June 7.  As a a result, the BeyondtheSEA webinar is being offered on June 23 from 12pm to 1pm ET.

Pre-Registration

Pre-registration is required due to the expected demand in attendance.   Please pre-register at our website – http://nnlm.gov/sea/training/register.html Once we receive your registration information, we will send you the access information you will need to join our webinar on June 23.  Please email cbecker@hshsl.umaryland.edu if you have any problems registering.

Date: June 23, 2011

Time: Noon – 1 pm ET

Please join a revealing discussion on clinical informatics curriculum, health sciences librarianship and the mixture of both.  The panel discussion is a short overview of the “nut and bolts” of clinical informatics, how the domain is integrated in hospital, ambulatory and public health settings and the components of clinical informatics that may be best-suited for professionals having information science skills.

Informatics issues span the complex gamut of patient care. It involves the participation of countless organizations including care delivery, commercial vendors, national/international standards, consultants, contractors, policy institutes, government entities, third-party payers, professional associations to name a few. Informatics issues cover an array of interrelated topics including all forms of health information systems (particularly Electronic Health Records), system standards and architectures, information frameworks, the need for more informaticists in the context of healthcare reform, implementation of meaningful use (and other enabling government policies) and ICD-10, system life cycle management, content integration, system design, user workflows and the pros/cons of various types programming languages.  Additionally, you will hear “real-world” perspectives from a student point-of-view; a hospital librarian who is a member of the first cohort of the Hopkins certificate program.

Clinical informatics is not new, is sometimes confused with bioinformatics and is often described as “the intersection of computer science, information science and health sciences”. Beyond that, what does clinical informatics portend for hospital and other health sciences librarians? The discussion aims to be informal and is hoped that librarians will have a better understanding of clinical informatics and their potential part in it.  The virtual panel is comprised of a pediatrician, librarian/computer scientist (Johns Hopkins faculty) and another librarian (an informatics student).

Presenters:

Harold Lehmann, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Health Sciences Informatics and Pediatrics, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD-Dr. Lehmann, is a professor and board-certified general pediatrician with doctoral training in biomedical informatics. His research area has involved evidence-based medicine and clinical decision making, so he comes to today’s session with much affection for the library community. He has also founded many of Johns Hopkins’ health sciences informatics training opportunities ranging from an undergraduate course, through post-baccalaureate certificates, masters, a new PhD, and post-doctoral training. Along with Nancy Roderer, he is figuring out what the ideal educational experience would be for librarians regarding informatics and looks forward to hearing suggestions from the group.

Nancy Roderer, MLS, AHIP, ACMI – Professor and Director, Health Sciences Informatics and Director of Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD- Ms. Roderer is a professor in the Division of Health Sciences Informatics in the School of Medicine with a joint appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She serves as Director of the Welch Medical Library and Director of the Division of Health Sciences Informatics.  Professor Roderer is a graduate of the University of Dayton (Mathematics and Computer Science) and the University of Maryland (Library and Information Services and Computer Science).  She has previously pursued her interests in understanding and facilitating information use and in integrated information management through both operational and research activities at Columbia and Yale Universities, including service as Co-Principal Investigator of IAIMS projects at both institutions.  Professor Roderer’s research and teaching focuses primarily on the information behavior of health sciences personnel and on developing systems and services to better meet the needs of that community.

Mary Lou Glazer, MLA, AHIP – Chief, Medical Library at Dept. of Veterans Affairs and Adjunct Professor at Dowling College, Northport, New York

Ms. Glazer graduated from Long Island University – C. W. Post with a Bachelors degree in Accounting and from CUNY Queens College for her Masters in Library Science.  She is now completing a Clinical Informatics certificate program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was a fellow at the National Library of Medicine Bioinformatics Program at Woods Hole, MA. Mary Lou Glazer has been the Chief of the Medical Library at the Northport (NY) VA Medical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs for over four years and also teaches library research at several local colleges.

How to get connected:

What do you need to join these conferences?

* A computer (with Flash installed)
* A telephone

Go to this URL: http://webmeeting.nih.gov/beyondthesea/ and use the code provided to you when your pre-registration was confirmed by the SEA office.

Reasonable accommodations will be provided upon request. If you require special accommodations, please call 410-706-2855.

Test your connection: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

Get a quick overview: http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_overview

List of previously presented web conferences on subjects such as marketing your library and NN/LM updates.

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Time: Noon – 1 pm ET

Please join a revealing discussion on clinical informatics curriculum, health sciences librarianship and the mixture of both.  The panel discussion is a short overview of the “nut and bolts” of clinical informatics, how the domain is integrated in hospital, ambulatory and public health settings and the components of clinical informatics that may be best-suited for professionals having information science skills.

Informatics issues span the complex gamut of patient care. It involves the participation of countless organizations including care delivery, commercial vendors, national/international standards, consultants, contractors, policy institutes, government entities, third-party payers, professional associations to name a few. Informatics issues cover an array of interrelated topics including all forms of health information systems (particularly Electronic Health Records), system standards and architectures, information frameworks, the need for more informaticists in the context of healthcare reform, implementation of meaningful use (and other enabling government policies) and ICD-10, system life cycle management, content integration, system design, user workflows and the pros/cons of various types programming languages.  Additionally, you will hear “real-world” perspectives from a student point-of-view; a hospital librarian who is a member of the first cohort of the Hopkins certificate program.

Clinical informatics is not new, is sometimes confused with bioinformatics and is often described as “the intersection of computer science, information science and health sciences”. Beyond that, what does clinical informatics portend for hospital and other health sciences librarians? The discussion aims to be informal and is hoped that librarians will have a better understanding of clinical informatics and their potential part in it.  The virtual panel is comprised of a pediatrician, librarian/computer scientist (Johns Hopkins faculty) and another librarian (an informatics student).

Presenters:

Harold Lehmann, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Health Sciences Informatics and Pediatrics, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD-Dr. Lehmann, is a professor and board-certified general pediatrician with doctoral training in biomedical informatics. His research area has involved evidence-based medicine and clinical decision making, so he comes to today’s session with much affection for the library community. He has also founded many of Johns Hopkins’ health sciences informatics training opportunities ranging from an undergraduate course, through post-baccalaureate certificates, masters, a new PhD, and post-doctoral training. Along with Nancy Roderer, he is figuring out what the ideal educational experience would be for librarians regarding informatics and looks forward to hearing suggestions from the group.

Nancy Roderer, MLS, AHIP, ACMI – Professor and Director, Health Sciences Informatics and Director of Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD- Ms. Roderer is a professor in the Division of Health Sciences Informatics in the School of Medicine with a joint appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She serves as Director of the Welch Medical Library and Director of the Division of Health Sciences Informatics.  Professor Roderer is a graduate of the University of Dayton (Mathematics and Computer Science) and the University of Maryland (Library and Information Services and Computer Science).  She has previously pursued her interests in understanding and facilitating information use and in integrated information management through both operational and research activities at Columbia and Yale Universities, including service as Co-Principal Investigator of IAIMS projects at both institutions.  Professor Roderer’s research and teaching focuses primarily on the information behavior of health sciences personnel and on developing systems and services to better meet the needs of that community.

Mary Lou Glazer, MLA, AHIP – Chief, Medical Library at Dept. of Veterans Affairs and Adjunct Professor at Dowling College, Northport, New York

Ms. Glazer graduated from Long Island University – C. W. Post with a Bachelors degree in Accounting and from CUNY Queens College for her Masters in Library Science.  She is now completing a Clinical Informatics certificate program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was a fellow at the National Library of Medicine Bioinformatics Program at Woods Hole, MA. Mary Lou Glazer has been the Chief of the Medical Library at the Northport (NY) VA Medical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs for over four years and also teaches library research at several local colleges.

How to get connected:

What do you need to join these conferences?

* A computer (with Flash installed)
* A telephone

Go to this URL: http://webmeeting.nih.gov/beyondthesea/ and use the code provided to you when you register (registering information will be updated here, when it becomes available).

Reasonable accommodations will be provided upon request. If you require special accommodations, please call 410-706-2855 at least 2 weeks prior to the event.

Test your connection: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

Get a quick overview: http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_overview

List of previously presented web conferences on subjects such as marketing your library and NN/LM updates.

An NLM Technical Bulletin article was published today announcing the merger of the NTCC Educational Clearinghouse into the MLA Educational Clearinghouse (EC).  39 resources from the NTCC Clearinghouse were entered into the MLA EC.  If the resource we entered was developed by the NN/LM, the value, “RML Offerings” was selected in the CE Activity/Resource field.  I also included in the description field that the resource was developed by the NN/LM.

If you have a Continuing Education course in the MLA EC, we recommend that edit your record(s) and add the “RML Offerings” value in the CE Activity/Resource Field.  This field may have multiply-occurring values.  This value will be the search approach to use to limit to RML resources.

The article is at:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj11/mj11_ntcc_merger.html.

Please contact Janet Zipser, MEDLARS Management Section, NLM (zipserj@mail.nlm.nih.gov; 301-496-7718) if you have any questions or comments.

WISER 4.4 is now available!  You can download this update to WISER’s Windows, Pocket PC, and SmartPhone platforms from the WISER Web site (http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov/), or access the updated on-line version, WebWISER (http://webwiser.nlm.nih.gov/getHomeData.do).

Highlights of this version include (please see the WISER Web site’s What’s New in 4.4 (http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov/whats_new_4_4.html) for more information):

1) WISER for Windows rolls out a new, interactive Chemical Reactivity capability. You can:

a) Create your own mix of chemicals.

b) See an overview of the resulting potential hazards.

c) Delve into the detailed reaction behind each hazard or gas produced.

2) 19 new substances and mixtures of substances have been introduced, including Crude Oil and the Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527 dispersants.

In addition, WISER for iPhone/iPod touch 1.1 is now available from Apple’s App Store.

All WISER platforms now include:

1) The 19 new substances and mixtures of substances.

2) Data updates based on the latest information from the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLs).

3) Many usability improvements and fixes.

Coming this Spring and Summer for WISER are:

1) Enhancements to WISER for iPhone/iPod touch, including the help identify tool, and iPad-focused support.

2) WISER for the Android platform.

Please see the News page of the WISER Web site for our future plans.  Feel free to contact us if you have suggestions about opportunities to add new features, or to enhance current features. Feedback from our users helps in our plans to develop future versions of WISER!  Please use the Contact Us page of the WISER Web site to submit your feedback and ideas or anything else related to WISER.

We would also like to note the following resources of special interest to those who need to learn more about or have urgent access to health information related to tsunamis, earthquakes, and radiation emergencies currently affecting Japan.

1) Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM).  Clinicians and others who need to learn about assessing and managing radiation emergencies are urged to use the Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM) Web site (http://remm.nlm.gov). Selected key files from REMM are also available for downloading on mobile devices from http://www.remm.nlm.gov/downloadmremm.htm. The entire REMM web site can be downloaded to a laptop or desktop computer for use where there is no Internet connection.

2) Japan Disasters Topic Page.  A new page of links to information on “Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Radiation Event – March 2011″ is now available at http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/japan2011.html. The resources on this page may help with understanding the health issues related to the devastating Japan earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant situation. Resources from the National Library of Medicine, U.S. federal agencies, and other key resources are listed for responders, health professionals, and the general public.

3) For questions regarding REMM and the Japan Disasters Topic Page, please email custserv@nlm.nih.gov or call 1-888-346-3656 in the United States, or 301-594-5983 internationally.

Many libraries in the Southeastern Atlantic Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine are using LibGuides to share knowledge and information. LibGuides by Springshare is touted as a practical Web 2.0 application specifically built for libraries and educational institutions. The company has over 1700 libraries using this application with 125,000+ guides by 25,000+ librarians and more than 50 million page hits per month. Coordinators at NN/LM SE/A were impressed by a poster at the MAC 2010 meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina from West Virginia University, in which LibGuides were used to incorporate information literacy into the health sciences curriculum at their institution. Librarians at WVU were very helpful in providing more information and offered to answer any questions and share their LibGuides with NN/LM staff. To see their poster, please visit: http://macmla.org/events/2010/presentations/arnold.pdf

After seeing how useful these guides can be, further discussion regarding the use of LibGuides for NN/LM SE/A took place and led to an information webinar session for the staff. We are pleased to announce that we will be implementing LibGuides for our network members. Each coordinator in the office has specific duties related to particular health topics. For example, the Consumer Health Coordinator specializes in various subjects related to consumer health, such as senior health, veterans health information resources and consumer genetics. The Community Outreach Coordinator specializes in resources for specific populations and is planning a LibGuide for population specific health resources for Native Americans, African Americans, etc. These guides will lend themselves quite readily to the mission of NN/LM and will be an excellent way to provide this information to network members. As a content sharing system, LibGuides can act as a gateway to specific resources on a wide variety of health topics and cool tools can be incorporated into the guides, such as RSS feeds, interactive polls, and videos, just to name a few.

At the recent Oversight Committee meeting in Baltimore, members suggested that NN/LM SE/A be a source of information on topics important to NN/LM network members. One such topic mentioned was electronic health records (EHRs). Announcements and updates regarding EHRs come at a rate that is almost impossible to keep up with, yet it’s a topic that many health sciences librarians want to know about. LibGuides will make it possible to have all of the pertinent information in one location. Based on that suggestion, the topic of the first NN/LM SE/A LibGuide is EHRs. To take a look at this LibGuide, please visit: http://seaguides.hshsl.umaryland.edu/emr. Future LibGuides from NN/LM SE/A will be found at: http://seaguides.hshsl.umaryland.edu/.

As always, the NN/LM SE/A would like your input and feedback on these LibGuides as we put them into practice. Suggestions for LibGuides topics are most welcome. We’ll be exploring this application and seeking new and creative ways to make use of these guides. One potential idea we’re exploring is the use of LibGuides as a collaborative workspace. Many network members have developed curricula and projects that can serve as “best practices” for the Region and it would be great to have a space where these projects can be shared with everyone. If you have any suggestions or comments, please email any coordinator in the SEA office or send us an email: HSHSL-NLMsea@hshsl.umaryland.edu