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The Informationist: Bibliography

What is an informationist?

Davidoff F, Florance V.

The informationist: a new health profession? Annals of Internal Medicine 2000 Jun 20;132(12):996-8. [PubMed]

Davidoff F, Florance V, Detlefsen E, McGowan J.

The medical informationist and other roles for the librarian in the 21st century [Web document]. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Regional Chapter of the Medical Library Association. Summary of panel discussion from meeting held October 17, 2000. [cited 25 Feb 2002]. <http://www.mlaphil.org/informationist.html>.

Kronenfeld M.

"The Informationist: a new health profession?": so what are we? Chopped liver? Natl Netw [Internet] 2000 Oct;25(2):1,15. [cited 25 Feb 2002]. <http://hls.mlanet.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/v25n2.pdf>.

Plutchak TS.

Informationists and librarians. Bull Med Libr Assoc 2000 Oct;88(4):391-2. See also
<http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=35262>. [cited 25 Feb 2002].

Felber S.

Commentary on the Informationist: a different perspective. Natl Netw 2001 Apr;5(4):20-1. [PubMed]

Shipman JP, Cunningham DJ, Holst R, Watson LA.

The Informationist Conference: report. J Med Libr Assoc. 2002 October; 90(4): 458–464. [Full Text | PDF–155k]

Recent publications

Byrd GD.

Can the profession of pharmacy serve as a model for health informationist professionals? J Med Libr Assoc 2002 Jan;90(1):68-75. See also <http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=64759>. [cited 25 Feb 2002].

Detlefsen EG.

The education of informationists, from the perspective of a library and information sciences educator. J Med Libr Assoc 2002 Jan;90(1):5967. See also <http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=64758>. [cited 25 Feb 2002].

Florance V, Giuse NB, Ketchell DS.

Information in context: integrating information specialists into practice settings. J Med Libr Assoc 2002 Jan;90(1):49-58. See also
<http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=64757>. [cited 25 Feb 2002].

Greenhalgh T, et al.

A comparative case study of two models of a clinical informaticist service. BMJ 2002 March 2; 324:524-9. [cited 2 Apr 2002].

Hersh W.

Medical informatics education: an alternative pathway for training informationists. J Med Libr Assoc 2002 Jan;90(1):76-79. See also
<http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=64760>. [cited 25 Feb 2002].

Homan MJ, McGowan JJ.

The Medical Library Association: promoting new roles for health information professionals. J Med Libr Assoc 2002 Jan;90(1):80-85. See also
<http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=64761>. [cited 25 Feb 2002].

Plutchak TS.

Learning from each other. J Med Libr Assoc 2002 Jan;90(1):1-3. See also
<http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=64752>. [cited 25 Feb 2002].

Plutchak TS.

The informationist—two years later. J Med Libr Assoc 2002 Oct;90(4):367-369. See also
<http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=128952>. [cited 20 Nov 2002].

Shearer BS, Seymour A, Capitani C.

Bringing the best of medical librarianship to the patient team. J Med Libr Assoc 2002 Jan;90(1):22-31. See also
<http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=64754>. [cited 25 Feb 2002].

"Informationists" in the news

Allen JE. INSURANCE / payment proposed for information therapy. LA Times. 2002 Jan 28. [cited 25 Feb 2002].

The March 2 BMJ has an article comparing two models of a clinical informaticist service - very similar to what we call an informationist service. Here's the reference; BMJ 2002 March 2; 324:524-9 Greenhalgh T et al - A comparative case study of two models of a clinical informaticist service.

For further information about the content of the invited Informationist Conference, please contact Jean Shipman, Jean.Shipman@utah.edu, or Carla Funk, funk@mlahq.org.