Beyond Medical Informatics

From: PubMed Advanced Search Page Modified. NLM Technical Bulletin. 2010 May–Jun.

The PubMed Search Builder section of the Advanced Search page will soon be modified to provide users with a more cohesive method to build searches.

This should help make searching easier. I should start upgrading my PubMed searching skills.

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Found a new e-Journal: Applied Clinical Informatics

ACI (Applied Clinical Informatics)

As the Official eJournal of IMIA and AMDIS, the online journal ACI will publish approximately 100 peer reviewed articles per year. It aims to establish a platform that allows sharing knowledge between clinical medicine and health IT specialists worldwide as well as bridging gaps between visionary design and successful and pragmatic deployment.

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The core editorial subject matters of ACI are: Clinical information systems (including electronic medical records and systems, personal health records, physician/provider order entry, electronic prescribing, clinical decision support, nursing information systems, patient scheduling and tracking tools, lab information systems, radiology information systems, PACS, GP information systems), administrative and management systems, eHealth systems, information technology development,  deployment, and evaluation, socio-technical aspects of information technology and health IT training.

The target group of ACI is an international and potentially very influential readership, e.g.: Chief Information Officers, Chief Executive Officers, Chief Financial Officers, Medical Informatics Researchers, Nurse Informaticians, Consultants, Public Health Officials, Vendors, IT Safety Healthcare providers, Informatics trainees as well as organizations such as IMIA , AMDIS, AMIA, HIMSS or the equivalent.

I hope I get to read some of the articles. Access is not free so I will have to borrow from some friends.

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This bit of news caught my eye: California hospital says it’s first to self-implement VistA

I found a great resource for NLM Updates:

NLM In Focus

This electronic newsletter gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the National Library of Medicine and how its vast resources are being used to improve public health and safety, and advance science and medicine.

The US NLM is important to me because I spent over 2 years there for my Postdoc Fellowship in Medical Informatics. I am still looking forward to future collaborations with them once I get the right projects.

A personal emphasis on the article, Going Mobile: Information When and Where You Need It. It tackles research topics in Mobile technology and access–projects I worked with back in NLM with my mentor, Dr. Paul Fontelo (who was also mentioned in the article).

Here are 2 interesting Nursing-related links:

• MEDLINE/PubMed for Evidence-based Nursing
• SPOTLIGHT: Nursing inefficiencies

Excerpt from the 2nd link:

A new survey… finds that hospital-based nurses across the country can devote as much as 25 percent of their time filling out forms, documenting patient encounters in multiple locations and hunting down supplies and medical devices.

Here in the Philippines, we’d be lucky if our nurses ONLY spend 25% of their time outside of patient care. Some nurses might spend more than 50% of their time doing non-patient care activities.

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I’d like to hear from  you. What do you think about the inefficiencies in Philippine nursing? Do you think HIT can provide improvement? Do you have success stories?