Health Care Initiative for US Patients

Personalized Health Care

Personalized Health Care Initiative will improve the safety, quality and effectiveness of healthcare for every patient in the US.

Lexonomy

Lexonomy | A Taxonomy Primer

Taxonomies…thesauri…classification systems…synonym rings. We’ve heard all of these terms in the context of the Web. As Web sites expand, the task of organizing them has become increasingly problematic and complex.

Open Courses in Medical Informatics

Department of Health Administration and Policy
(George Mason University) has Open Online Courses Focussed on Health Informatics and Electronic Helth Records.The syllabus and the content of all lectures are available on the web without password protection.

1. Online courses focused on patient safety and quality improvement

2. Online courses focused on statistics & data analysis

3. Online courses focused on informatics and electronic health records

Medical Informatics

Introduction to Medical Informatics

Firegoose

BioMed Central | Abstract | 1471-2105-8-456 | The Firegoose: two-way integration of diverse data from different bioinformatics web resources with desktop applications

Firegoose incorporates Mozilla Firefox into the Gaggle environment and enables interactive sharing of data between diverse web resources and desktop software tools without maintaining local copies.

Biomedical Informatics

VUMC Department of Biomedical Informatics (FAQ)

Biomedical Informatics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with biomedical information, its structure, acquisition and use. "Biomedical" is used here in its broadest sense, to include research, education, and service in health-related basic sciences, clinical disciplines, and health care administration.

Jumpcut

Jumpcut - Be good to your video

Jumpcut is a place to make movies and interact with people.

Step-by-Step Usability Guide

Usability.gov

Six Steps to Help Your Home Page Grow Up

Is Your Home Page Immature?

BioMed Central YouTube channel

BioMed Central blog : BioMed Central YouTube channel debuts

BioMed Central has strated a Channel on YouTube. Authors and editors can upload suitable videos to YouTube and then inform BioMed Central.

Sabeer Bhatia launched Live Documents

Bangalore-based InstaColl, co-founded by Sabeer Bhatia, Sumanth Raghavendra and Kaushal Cavale, today launched an application called Live Documents, which is a hybrid online-offline office suite of applications with features similar to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

With Live Documents one can:

- Access your documents on the web or on the desktop

- View and edit your documents from anywhere at any time in your browser in a rich user interface that provides the functionality and responsiveness that you expect in your familiar desktop applications.

- Use your existing desktop Office application (Microsoft Office currently and shortly Open Office) as a smart client that permits offline access to your document

- the next time you go online, Live Documents automatically synchronizes all changes to ensure that there is a single version of the truth.

CAVEman Project

Sun Center of Excellence for Visual Genomics - CAVEman: 4D Mapping of Genomic and Medical Information

CAVEman Project aims to create visual maps of information about diseases that have a genetic component, such as cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's. Using an immersive virtual reality environment called the CAVE, the research team will integrate a high-resolution digital atlas of a human body with medical data related to specific diseases. The final result will be a next-generation 4D (space and time) visual system to "see" disease processes and the effects of interventions, such as drugs, on these processes.

Showing Google Scholar Citation in PubMed

PubMed Citations – Userscripts.org

A script takes each result in a PubMed search and then queries Google Scholar to get the number of times it has been cited. Then it places a link with this info next to each search result, linking to the citations in Google Scholar.

JournalBot

Harvey-Semester - JournalBot

JournalBot screens several medical journals for the latest articles on certain topics and displays the results as an RSS newsfeed

Become a Medical Librarian

Medical Library Association | Careers: Medical Librarianship : Join the Healthcare Team

MLA's 11 minute video, "Join the Health Care Team: Become a Medical Librarian," explores the roles and environment of today's health information professionals.