STAT!Ref Blog

Teton Data is now offering a new way to keep up with updates, new editions, and new titles – the STAT!Ref blog.  Read the posts, and find the RSS feeds, at http://statref.typepad.com/

Clinical Questions

One challenge I’ve faced in developing evidence-based practice classes and tools is coming up with appropriate clinical questions to use for examples.
NLM has a tool to help with this challenge: a databank of clinical questions, at http://clinques.nlm.nih.gov/. 
The ClinicalQuestions Collection is a growing repository of questions that have been collected from healthcare providers in clinical settings [...]

iPhones & Medicine

Dr. Schwimmer at Tech Medicine reports that Epocrates is coming to iPhone, with some features that are unique to this handheld device. Epocrates on iPhone will include a pillfinder feature — a way to identify pills from their shape and color, with images to help confirm the identification. The application store for third-party [...]

Video tutorials for Cochrane, CINAHL and more

Lake Sumter Community College Libraries has posted several video tutorials on its Databases A-Z page. Of interest to health sciences libraries:

Cochrane Library (Wiley)
CINAHL Plus with Fulltext

Michigan readers may also find Infotrac Onefile useful. (A number of Gale databases are available to Michigan residents through the Michigan eLibrary subscription; see the Library of Michigan for [...]

Ten Web 2.0 things you can do in 10 minutes

eLearn Magazine’s feature article this week, Ten Web 2.0 things you can do in 10 minutes to be a more successful e-learning professional, suggests quick ways to use Web 2.0 technologies to learn a new skill, discover new resources, share knowledge, build relationships with colleagues, or get more organized.  Here are a few of author Stephen [...]

Spectrum Health partners with Cerner & Microsoft

Medicine on the Net notes in its March 2008 ”New on the ‘net” section that Spectrum Health/Butterworth (Grand Rapids, MI)  has a new system providing about 200 patients with “bedside technology to surf the Internet, communicate electronically with healthcare teams, watch videos, and enjoy movies and games powered by Xbox 360 software.”  The system, called Care Console, was developed in [...]

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice

“EBLIP is an open access, peer reviewed journal published quarterly by the University of Alberta Learning Services and supported by an international team of editorial advisors. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in professional practice. EBLIP [...]

MHSLA Research Committee Poster at MLA

The results of the recently-completed Research Committee survey on the use of Web 2.0 technologies in Michigan health sciences libraries will be presented as a poster at MLA ‘08 in Chicago, May 16 – 21, 2008.  Our author-staffed presentation is scheduled for 3:30 – 4:30 PM on Sunday, May 18.  Hope to see you there!

Hardin MD’s photo gallery

Hardin MD, at the University of Iowa, has recently revamped its homepage to make the 800+ images in its medical photo gallery easier to find and use. Check it out at: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html

MLA’s CE Blog Course

After stumbling across a couple of new blogs that mentioned finding RSS feeds for medical journals and setting up RSS feeds for a PubMed search, I found one that linked back to the MLA Learning 2.0 CE Blog Course Web 2.0 101: Introduction to Second Generation Web Tools. The course is still in its first [...]