Internet Resources: Breast Cancer: Financial and Assistance Resources
Submitted by Lisa Huang, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA; edited by Talicia TarverBreast Cancer Awareness Month may be over, but…
Leadership and Management: Let’s Continue to Make a Difference
Submitted by Tara Douglas-Williams, Chair, Leadership and Management Section Editor’s note: Tara Douglas-Williams is the current chair of the Leadership and Management Section. Learn more…
November 2016 News to Know…bytes and bits from around the social web
PolicyViz Podcast I am huge fan of the Graphic Continuum that was developed by Severino @SR_Visual_Info and Johnathan @jschwabish. So, I was super excited to…
Am I Leaking Data Everywhere?
Like many others, I have jumped on the fitness tracking bandwagon with my FitBit firmly strapped to my wrist. I love charts and graphs, so…
Internet Resources: Research Data Management, Part Two: Data Reuse
Submitted by Jane Kinkus Yatcilla, Veterinary Medical Library, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; edited by Talicia Tarver Editor’s note: Part 1 of this column on Research…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch Rx for Reading Doctors should start hanging posters in clinics and offices to “Read” like the posters that hang in libraries.…
Cancer Informatics and Tech companies
In recent years, major technologies companies such as Google and Microsoft have started large-scale data analytic research programmes to investigate the major diseases. Here are several…
Providing Hands-on Training with Bioinformatics Databases: A Collaboration Between VCU Libraries & Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research
Earlier this year, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries partnered with VCU’s Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research (Wright CCTR) to offer a bioinformatics database…
Internet Resources: Research Data Management, Part One: Self Help
Submitted by Jane Kinkus Yatcilla, Veterinary Medical Library, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; edited by Talicia Tarver Editor’s note: This month’s Internet Resources column is…
Budgeting for an Opening Day Collection in “Born Digital” Libraries
Submitted by Joanne Muellenbach, AHIP, Health Sciences Library, University Libraries, University of Nevada–Las Vegas; Debra Rand, AHIP, Health Sciences Library, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine,…
September 2016 News to Know…bytes and bits from around the social web
Analytics and Data From the Tableau blog, a guest post by Tableau Zen Master Jeffrey Shaffer (@HighVizAbility). In this post, Jeffrey shares to awesome Tableau…
eHealth Ontario on YouTube
eHealth Ontario is the Government of Ontario’s eHealth division. Ontario is the largest province in Canada by population. I would like to draw your attention…
Internet Resources: Bibliotherapy and Poetry Therapy
Submitted by Judy Griggs, Family Resource Center, Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH; edited by Talicia Tarver In 1966, the Association of Hospital and Institution Libraries…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch Get Ready for High Tech Shelving Help Would you have trouble finding the place to shelve R2-D2? How about shelving C-3PO?…
rapid and relevent information in the clinic setting
As a librarian-physician I am still trying to figure out my place in informatics. I have been interested for 15 years, beginning with some years…
July 2016 News to Know…bytes and bits from around the social web
This is the July installment of News to Know…bits and bytes from around the social web. The CMS Open Payments Data Explorer tool allows you…
The Data Discovery Bootcamp Challenge!
Truthfully, I was tired and not sure if I felt up to attending The Data Discovery Bootcamp Challenge! on the last morning of MLA 2016,…
eHealth 2016
Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the annual eHealth conference organized by COACH: Canada’s health informatics organization. This year, the eHealth conference…
Internet Resources: Skin Cancer Awareness and Prevention
Submitted by Talicia Tarver, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University–Richmond Editor’s Note: Submissions to this column are always welcome for consideration! Please…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch Who Is Alexandra Elbakyan…and Why Should You Care? In an age burgeoning with renegades—or revolutionaries—another has risen and taken center stage…