Posted on July 15, 2008 by Sandy Swanson
The June/July 2008 issue of MLA News reports on the 2009 revisions to the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals. The Joint Commission’s Standards Improvement Initiative proposed to “enhance the clarity and objectivity of the standards….” The Knowledge-Based Information standard is now incorporated in standard IM.03.01.01 (that KBI resources are available, current & authoritative) and includes 2 EPs (elements [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Sandy Swanson
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 [...]
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Posted on December 10, 2007 by Sandy Swanson
Thomas Hill’s editorial in the October Journal of the Medical Library Association offers advice to hospital librarians on surviving the hard times by proving that the library supports the hospital’s mission. The article is online free through PubMedCentral.
Hill T: Fear, concern, fate and hope: survival of hospital libraries. J Med Libr Assoc. 2007 October; 95(4): [...]
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