IT3 Update: 2002-03-01. Friday 0800 Sutter Santa Rosa Conf.Rm#2, Pediatrics Rounds: Medical Uses of the Internet 2002. Presentation 08000 followed by ands-on workshop 0900-1100.
Library: Firestone Update. Win XP, Adobe Reader and Acrobat 5.05 and PDF Reader for the Palm OS have been resently added to the workstation.
New Topics: Subjects now included here are DataBase Systems, System Administration, Network Management, Information System Design and Architecture, TeleCom/DataCom ,Data and System Security and current topics in electrical power generation, transmission and pricing. The IT3 (Internet, Information & Instruction) emphasis of this project remains.
Note that what has been known as Telemedicine and M)edical I)nformation S)cience MIS, or Medical Informatics is now in the process of being redefined by the twin driving forces of economics and technology. Two current tech buzzwords are D)ata B)ase backed client server applications running on the Web and Open Source code.
But, energy, water, weather and the ecology of our natural and economic environment supplements our understanding of the way complex systems are thought to work. The focus is local to Sonoma County, California and the West; but the perspective is global.
Google.com web and site searching has been added. NB, Google now indexes PDF documents. FrontPage 2000 and server side extensions are currently being used to good effect on some of the presentations published from this site. In addition, we a serving up some native and html converted PowerPoint Presntations.
|| LOC || , the American Experience project at the Library of Congress has put the Jefferson Papers online. This is an impressive demonstration of what libraries can publish using the Web.
|| sonic.net || co-founder, Dane Jasper, is interviewed by Sonoma Business Magazine.
We are now have a fully qualified and registered domain name. Our old URL, www.sonic.net/~smcbooks, points to our new URL, www.oslerbooks.com. This change uses the multihoming services of sonic.net. If you need help with Internet terms, consult whatis.com.
The site
index/HomePage has been given a design makeover: a straight-forward user interface is the Goal; Speed and
Standardization are at the core of our approach to Information Design Architecture for the Web.
We use FrontPage extensions, FrontPage, Linux, Apache, and Perl to help in the
production and editing of this site.
Dr. Peter Pappas, M.D. has graciously contributed a copy of his Power Point Medical Rounds presentation on Back Pain to the Medical Library. It can be downloaded for the link or accessed at the Library Mac on the desktop folder, PowerPoint.MedRounds.ppt. BTW, you can use this site's search engine and the keyword "Pappas" to find out more.
The full Adobe Acrobat Suite 4.05 is now installed on the Library Mac. Version 5.0 is on the way.
|| CAIM || is the Center for Advanced Instructional Media at the Yale University School of Medicine. Design Director, Patrick Lynch, a medical illustrator, has an online version of his recent publication, Web Style Guide. His department is part of Yale Medical School's Information Technology Service(ITS ). In addition, he has a current bibliography of Web and Design resources and examples. Cardiothoracic Imagingit an example of a collaboration at Yale.
J. Ben Davoren, M.D.,PhD, Medical Oncologist, UCSF and Clinical Information Architect at SFVA, the Friday, 12/03/99 CME Rounds presenter at SRMH. His topic was Computers in Medicine: Clinical Problem Solving Using the Internet and he has granted us permission to post his Power Point presentation on our server as a WebApp. A video recording of his talk is also available.
|| Quik-en_Simple_Site_Search || is for doing an up-to-day keyword search of this site. Try a boolean AND using "Gude" AND "1999-" using the link's input form.
WebMD is signing up local physicians for no cost access to their service for the next 12 months. A grant or investment by Microsoft, who brokered the Healtheon- WebMd deal, has made this possible.
Sonoma County has be dubbed " Telecom Valley ". DSL, now available via our ISP, sonic.net, is but one benefit of (IP) Internet packet switching technology. The October 99 edition of Scientific American is devoted to DSL and other broadband technologies than are rapidly replacing modems and servicing the market for home and business access to IP networks that can carry data , voice and video to IP Networks everywhere, anytime. George T. Hawley of "Telecom Valleyıs " Diamond Lane/Nokia is one of the contributors. Another Sonoma County product is Richard Belluzzo pdf document He moved from HP to Silicon Graphics to r head of Microsoft's Internet Division and the .Net initiative. He is now President and CEO of Microsoft. Local youth soccer participants are familiar with Belluzzo Field and the soccer shoe recycling project of his father.
Those who travel at the speed of light may have an interest in an optical-fiber tutorial in a 222k. pdf file format. Monday, September 20, 1999, the WSJ has a Special Feature on Technology and Telecommunications focusing on Wireless data communication. See WSJ if you have a WSJ Interactive edition account or WSJ.pdf and Cutting the Cord, if you do not.
Recent up-grades at Firestone include: MacOS 8.6 with Sherlock and auto-indexing for in-context keyword searches of .text, .html and .pdf files; Palm MacPac 2.5 and MS Outlook Express 5.0 on the desktop; Zip media; Microsoft Office 98; Adobe Acrobat 3.01/4.0. || Quik_DB || now archives a searchable DB of facility teaching rounds and is used to publish a monthly CME e-schedule in pdf format. The GoMac database of Firestone Mac tools, apps and programs , that we call || QWAKs || for short, can be accessed at ..www.oslerbooks.com/gomac.html.
What is a dynamically linked PDF tutorial document? Test the Quik_DB version. Speaking of tutorials, here is a link to Networking Tutorials in Power Point format. Telecom and Datacom tutorials for those that are interested. E-Mail Basics is a gentle introduction to the subject. Sonoma County has hit the news as Telecom\Datacom Valley. || Cisco/Cerent.pdf ||. So much for the panache of Napa Valley and its wine and golf.
What is your IQ? Tom Friedman of the nytimes and Cisco have the answer. E-Biomed Journal as reported in the 6/8 nytimes, is the lastest from Dr. Harold Varmus of the NIH, the NLM and the the National Center for BioTechnology Information, the developers of PubMed, a Medline search interface that we know, use, teach and love. The BMJ and Stanford have joined the e-Medical Journal debate. They know the html and PDF speak power to the quality, speed and costs of Web publishing on an E-print server.
The Cochrane Library. Is a subscription database from the British evidence-based medicine Cochrane Collaboration. The login is smcbooks. The password is smedlib3.
Healtheon, WEBMD, Microsoft NT and DSL(Digital Subscriber Line) hit the net hit the Net. News from the WSJ Interactive Edition.
the tutorial TOC is a one page PDF file.
PM final A 20meg to 1.meg distillation of the Firestone Internet Tutorial/Carrel Site documentation in PDF format. Open the Bookmark section on the left side of your Adobe Acrobat Reader/Exchange application to click Navigate to each of the Chapter headings.
A medically oriented URL database that you can add to , search and
modify. We call it || Quik_DB ||and it comes in a variety of flavors. We use it to publish a searchable listing of educational rounds. Facility Teaching Rounds Schedule:Medicine, Pediatrics and other CME Rounds. The 1999-11 CME schedule has been published in pdf format.
The latest demonstration of interactivity is a quiz based on 1). the
Top Ten Infectious Disease Site from Hopkins linked below and 2). some
of the IT (Information Technology) that powers this site.
The 4/10/99 e-dition of the BMJ has an article on computer support for determining drug dose. It has PubMed citations, Cochrane data, and online reprints in PDF format.
|| BMJ On_Line ||. Letterman has nothing on Hopkins. Check out the Infectious Disease || TopTen. ||
Osler has been quoted at Casa De Citas
|| Exercise1 || is the first Exercise for the Medical Internet Literacy Teaching Carrel. It is a in PDF format.
|| Exercise 2 || is the second installment into the Medical Internet Literacy Teaching Carrel. It is a PDF document.
Preview of Upcoming and Recent Attractions:
A medically oriented URL data base that you can add, search, sort and
modify. We call it || Quik_DB ||and it comes in a variety of flavors. It can be used for personal contact information, monthly scheduling, and producing a formulary or card catalog.
Flash News Reports:
Sherlock, is a search engine
that is built into the MacOS 8.5-9. It can search the Internet and build a keyword index of your local and shared drives. Sherlock allows for fast searches of text and PDF documents by file name or contents. Combined with Acrobat, It is a tool for painless but high-level document management
Sherlock
The Firestone Project goes to Academia in New York || Quik_Quiz || ,developed and deployed at this site, is part of the MIDDLE ATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE, Volume 8 Number 4, July-August 1998 issue published by the New York Academy of Medicine and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. The electronic version is hosted at the National Library of Medicine. Do a Find on the page feature of your brower to find the link in the Web-Based interactivity section and the feed-back mechanism samples subsection.
This site is now cross-linked locally at the following sites: the
Plover Library, Santa Rosa Junior College, || SRJC || the Sonoma County Medical Association, || SCMA || and the Internet Branch of the Sonoma County Library,
|| SCL ||.
telneting , according to the nytimes, is an old-fashioned, but fast way to bypass the W)orld W)ide W) if you experience a traffic jam on the Internet SuperHighWay.
The October 21, 1998 issue of the JAMA is dedictated to the Internet, the Web, e-mail , literature searches , the e-chart, e-order_entry, and e-supported clinical decision making.
|| PDF full text at the NEJM || is now online for individual and institutional subscribers. Configure your favorite ver. 4.5+or 5.0 Communicator, Navigator, or MSIE browser now with the Adobe Acrobat Reader or Exchange 3.0+or 4.9. now so you can view these files: Note that PDF file text and graphic content is displayed consistently, and transmitted from server to client and publisher to printer just as the writer intended. Html files are displayed inconsistently from browser to browser and even from OS to OS>
- Hypokalemia from the NEJM
- Bacon's Essays
- The Gettysburg Address
- The Gettysburg Address with PageMaker enhancements
- Locke on What Matters.
The New England Journal of Medicine and its searchable, full-text, on-line version is now available.
The Log on is: User Name: = joanml The password: = cmedlib2
NB: The the Firestone online computer has the appropriate "cookie" so a Login at that site may be unnecessary.
This week's Review Article: Hypokalemia is downloadable as a PDF document that is now
part of the searchable NEJM "Knowledge Bank".
The Sonoma County Physician The Current issue is now framed and online.
the Healthcare Industry &the Internet:
the uses and abuses of electronic health information:
Privacy, Security and Service.
* The Medical Specialties Section now has a Public Health area with
links to Quantitative Reasoning resources and some recent Cal State Public Health Studies on miscarriage rates and drinking water sources. We are presenting four public health files in .pdf format. see MedSpecialties
* Internet tutorials, glossaries and references in the Tools of the Trade section have been updated. Most pages now have site helpers like forms for searching and the Web Express a site map for navigating .
* The Hardin Medical Library, Meta Directory, at the University of Iowa is an award winner.
* The Medical Internet Literacy Quiz Module#1 is now active.
New are Medical Internet Literacy Quiz Module#2 a scored, self-paced, 20 question, interactive True/False, javascripted presentation, and Module#3 quiz with a slightly different format and pedigree. Module#4 is a search and database quiz.
* THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Qualities of Heart and Head - Counsels from Osler.
For the teacher and the worker a great library is indispensible. They must know the world's best work and know it at once. They mint and make current coin the ore so widely scattered in journals, transactions, and monographs.
Books and Men, p. 220
News about Books:
* BOOKS ABOUT MEDICINE:
From the nytimes is a review about midwifery in the time of Louie XV.
* BOOKS ABOUT THE NET:
Also, from the nytimes, a book about how to burn money on the Net.
New on the Net:
*Medical News from the Web:
Patients are searching the Web: from the nytimes Thursday, July 9, 1998.
* Technical News you can use:
Bits, Bytes and Big Numbers is an article in the Tech Section of the nytimes
* Medical Informatics: DXplain is an expert system for assisting differential diagnosis. It is a demo from the LCS, MGH , the developers of COSTAR for management of patient records and the MUMPS programming language.
* The 2nd international Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society was held in May. The focus was not on medicine, but Paul Starr has views on computers and education.
There are also sessions. on business and law. Of particular interest is a link from the law section to an article entitled Showdown at the Willard, by Patrick Campbell, a Sonoma County winemaker and musician. It is based on an article originally published in "Wine Trader," Nov 5, 1995
* MLA: The Medical Library Association held its annual meeting and celebrated its Centennial Anniversary in Philadephia in May. If you have RealAudio/Video Player, you can join the 3,000 attendees via an archived, streamed audio broadcast that honors William Osler as a founding member of MLA. Tech geek, Al Gore also speaks.
* LATEST LINK: HealthWeb is from a mid-west medical library consortium site.
* IMAGING CASE OF THE WEEK: from the Woman's & Brigham.
* Consult and follow the links in this usatoday technical article on the rapidly moving world of Web use as a fast and efficent information portal or channel. Search Engine Technology.
* Win98 Glossary. As a concession to diversity, tolerance, and as a service to users of "the other OS" , we have referenced or linked to this glossary of Windows 98 terms. Yes, Windows 95/98/NT 2000 is still alive.
* McGraw-Hill has put an indexed and searchable Harrison's online This is a two week trial. Diabetes Mellitus is the demo chapter.
* "Mac at Hopkins" Dr A. "Mac" Harvey from the Gazette at Hopkins
* Osler and the Firestone Project are on the Net at the UMDNJ Medical Research Library!
* Medical Quackery and Fraud see || Quick_Links || in the Tools of the Trade section of this carrel. Remember to use your browser buttons and the Web Express navigation tools to help move around this site.
* Saturday Medical Rounds at Johns Hopkins are now archived and available to those with RealPlayer. (See Streaming Audio in the Tools of the Trade Section and the Medical Specialties Section. ) oolkit.
Events and Sites in Sonoma Co.:
* Benziger Family Winery is the featured Sonoma County/Sonoma Valley winery site of the week.
New on Site:
* || Quik_Quiz || is a collection of test modules that a designed to give online students using the Basic Medical Internet Literacy teaching carrel a method of doing a rapid and fun self-evaluation. Each module has || Quik_Search || available for online, realtime test-taking help || Quik_Quiz ||
|| Quik_Search ||
is what we call our site search engine.
Created by WebScribe2 : Monday, February 15, 1999.