The Commonwealth Fund issued a new report, “Health Care in the 2012 Presidential Election:  How the Obama and Romney Plans Stack Up.”  The report considers seven key questions:

• Will the plans increase the number of Americans with health insurance?
• Will the plans make health insurance more affordable?
• Will the plans protect consumers?
• Will the plans improve consumer choice?
• Will the plans help small businesses?
• Will the plans improve Medicare?; and
• Will the plans improve health care quality and slow health care spending growth?

http://tinyurl.com/9htecos

October is National Medical Librarians Month–Share Your Story and Win a Trip to MLA 2013 in Boston!

MAR would like to celebrate medical librarians in our region. National Medical Librarians Month gives information professionals an opportunity to market their services and highlight their contributions to research, education and improved patient outcomes. Are you doing something to celebrate Medical Librarians Month? If so, share your story by sending to nnlmmar@pitt.edu. If applicable, also share a photo depicting your activities/events.

MAR will be collecting your stories and highlighting them in our blog and weekly postings throughout October. All those that submit a story before Oct. 31st will be entered into a random drawing to receive an award to cover registration and airfare to MLA 2013. Please, only one entry per library.

Be sure to check out MLA’s promotional items and resources to market library services and value at:
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/nml-month/

*** Digital Disaster Relief and Summit for Good ***

Wendy Harman, Director of Social Strategy, American Red Cross (@wharman); David Kobia, Director of Technology Development, Ushahidi (@dkobia/) and Samantha Murphy, Mashable (@MurphySamanthaJ) discuss the use of social media as a communication tool during disasters.  This 11 minute session is part of the Social Good Summit currently being held in New York City September 22-24th. You can view the live stream and archives of other presentations.

*Live Stream: http://new.livestream.com/Mashable/SGS/

*Summit Website: http://mashable.com/sgs/

*Digital Disaster Relief Session: http://new.livestream.com/Mashable/SGS/videos/4026562

*Video archive of presentations: http://new.livestream.com/Mashable/SGS/videos/

*** Webinar: Implementing the National Prevention Strategy at the Local Level ***

National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)

Wednesday September 26, 12 MDT, 1 CT, 2ET

Implementing the National Prevention Strategy at the Local Level: Working with Non-Traditional Partners to Improve Community Health

The goal of this webinar hosted by NACCHO is to help participants implement the National Prevention Strategy (NPS) by working with non-traditional partners at the local level using a Health in All Policy (HiaP) approach. Speakers  include Kenneth D. Smith, PhD, Principal Investigator for NACCHO’s CDC-funded Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiative, and Margaret Byrne, Public Health Advisor with the Environmental Health Services Branch, part of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/registrations/new?cid=eiyeamby7ho7

*** Webinar: Serving Public Health through Open Health Mapping Services ***

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Directions Media

Wed, Sep 26, 2012 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT

Featured presenter Eddie Oldfield, BA, Director, NB Climate Change Hub at the New Brunswick Lung Association will describe his work in coordinating implementation of geospatial interoperability standards to exchange, integrate and visualize distributed health and environmental information. Oldfield’s current work involves creating a national portal to bring together climate and health resources for decision makers in public health, municipal emergency management and local climate adaptation. This webinar uses Voice-over IP (VOIP) or a US toll telephone call.

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/803074466

Just for Fun:

***CDC Director Thomas Frieden Plays ‘Not My Job’***

Dr. Thomas Frieden was recently a guest on the National Public Radio Show “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me!”  His task was to answer three questions on viruses of a different kind than he normally encounters in his job – viral marketing.  Take a break and tune in!

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/22/161566065/cdc-director-thomas-frieden-plays-not-my-job

Submitted by Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS (Contractor)

Librarian

Aquilent, Inc., supporting the mission of the National Library of Medicine

Specialized Information Services Division

Disaster Information Management Research Center

6707 Democracy Blvd.  Suite 510

Bethesda, MD 20892-5467

301-496-2742, phone

301-480-3537, fax

siobhan.champ-blackwell@nih.gov

https://twitter.com/NLM_DIMRC

**National Library of Medicine Funds Seven New Disaster Health Information Outreach and Collaboration Projects**

For the second year, NLM is funding seven projects for partnerships between libraries and organizations that have disaster-related responsibilities. The partnerships will work together to improve use of disaster medicine and public health information by librarians, health professionals, first responders, emergency planners and others responsible for disaster preparedness, response and recovery. Projects will increase the use of high-quality online resources on disaster topics including those from the National Library of Medicine.

The 2012 projects are:

• Arkansas Department of Health (Little Rock, AR)) in partnership with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library

• University of Miami, Louis Calder Memorial Library (Miami, FL) with the University of Miami, The William Lehman Research Center for the Department of Surgery

• Southeastern Regional Medical Center (Lumberton, NC) with the Robeson County Department of Public Health, Robeson County Emergency Management, and Lumberton Emergency Management

• Western Maryland Area Health Education Center Learning Resource Center (Cumberland, MD) with the Allegany College of Maryland Health Continuing Education Department, Allegany County Health Department, Emergency Preparedness Caucus, Frostburg State University Pre-Medical Society, Garrett County Health Department, Meritus Health Medical Library and Education Department, Social Work Caucus- Allegany/Garrett Counties, Social Work Caucus – Washington County, Washington County Health Department, and the Western Maryland Health System Parish Nurse and Health Minister Program

• MESH – Managed Emergency Surge for Healthcare, Inc. (Indianapolis, IN) with the Central Indiana Health Sciences Libraries Consortium

• Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (San Diego, CA) with the Public Health Services, Health and Human Services, County of San Diego

• Georgia Health Sciences University, Robert B. Greenblatt, MD Library (Augusta, GA) with the Georgia East Central Health District

For further information, please refer to http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/2012disasteroutreachawards.html.  For summaries of projects funded in 2011 visit http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/2011disasteroutreachawards.html.

The National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov)  is the world’s largest biomedical library and provides extensive online health information resources. Visit the NLM Disaster Information Management Research Center site (http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov)  to learn more about disaster-related health information from WISER (hazardous materials information for emergency responders), REMM-Radiation Emergency Medical Management, CHEMM-Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management, and other resources.

Elizabeth Norton, MLS, MPH, MBA

Librarian

Disaster Information Management Research Center

Specialized Information Services Division

National Library of Medicine

National Institutes of Health

6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 510

Bethesda, MD 20892-5467

301-443-9420

nortone@nlm.nih.gov

NLM Classification Poster Update

d. NLM Tech Bull. 2012 Sep-Oct;(388):b2.

2012 October 02 [posted]

The NLM Classification poster has been updated with data through 2012. To order the new 18″ x 24″ poster which outlines the NLM Classification schedules, please contact:

Mary Miller
Office of Communications and Public Liaison
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
Email: millerm@mail.nlm.nih.gov

Please indicate the name of the poster that you are ordering. Requests for multiple copies may be limited.

In addition, an 8 ½” x 11″ version is also available in PDF for download.

Note: The NLM Classification Poster is updated irregularly.

The October Disaster Information Specialist Adobe Connect session will be held Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 1:30 PM ET.  See connection information below.

We have a special program on Disaster Behavioral Health planned for this month.  Darrin Donato, from the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Division for At-Risk Individuals, Behavioral Health, and Community Resilience, will join Cathryn Chiesa, MLS, Resource Librarian, UCLA-Duke University Center for Child Traumatic Stress, Leading the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and Christian Burgess, LMSW, Director, Disaster Distress Helpline, to discuss concepts and components of disaster behavioral health.  They will also share what key resources information professionals need to know about.

Please join us!

To join the meeting at 1:30 pm ET, Thursday, October 11 click on:

https://webmeeting.nih.gov/disinfo

Enter your name in the guest box and click  “Enter Room.”  A box should pop up asking for your phone number.  Enter your phone number and the system will call you.

For those who cannot use the call-back feature, the dial-in information is below.

Dial-In:  1-888-757-2790

Pass-Code: 745907

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If you have never attended a Connect Pro meeting before:

Test your connection:  https://webmeeting.nih.gov/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

Get a quick overview:  http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_overview

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Or, if you are in the area you can attend the meeting in person at our offices at 6707 Democracy Blvd, Bethesda, MD, Suite 440.  Park in the visitor’s parking lot (we will validate your parking), walk to the middle building (Democracy Two) and take the elevator to the 4th floor.  Suite 440 is around the corner behind the elevators.

Submitted by Elizabeth Norton, MLS, MPH, MBA

Librarian

Disaster Information Management Research Center

Specialized Information Services Division

National Library of Medicine

National Institutes of Health

6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 510

Bethesda, MD 20892-5467

Issue 2 of the Journal of eScience Librarianship is now available at http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol1/iss2/

Table of Contents

Editorial

JESLIB: Evolution of eScience Librarianship in the New England Region and Beyond
Elaine R. Martin

Full Length Papers

Prepared to Plan? A Snapshot of Researcher Readiness to Address Data Management Planning Requirements

Gail Steinhart, Eric Chen, Florio Arguillas, Dianne Dietrich, and Stefan Kramer

Training Researchers on Data Management: A Scalable, Cross-Disciplinary Approach
Lisa Johnston, Meghan Lafferty, and Beth Petsan

EScience in Action

A Sample of Research Data Curation and Management Courses
Andrew T. Creamer, Myrna E. Morales, Donna Kafel, Javier Crespo, and Elaine R. Martin

Discussing “eScience and the Evolution of Library Services”

Claire Hamasu, Barb Jones, and Betsy Kelly

Understanding eScience: Reflections on a Houston Symposium

Joanne V. Romano, Allen Lopez, and Maianh Phi

A Collaborative Framework for Data Management Services: The Experience of the University of California

Joan Starr, Perry Willett, Lisa Federer, Claudia Horning, and Mary Linn Bergstrom

Submit an article to JeSLIB! See Guidelines for Authors

Sincerely,
Elaine R. Martin, Editor

FYI—if you have not seen this report.  It is really neat how the data from the public libraries was captured and PowerPoints provided for public libraries to adapt/use.

http://www.oclc.org/uk/en/reports/stackup/default.htm

The National Training Center is offering What We Learned in School:  Stories from Three Training and Learning Conferences on Nov. 7, 2012 at 3 pm ET.   They will also record and post the session for those who can’t attend at that time.

Their blog announcement and link to registration is here:  http://nnlm.gov/ntc/2012/09/24/1669/

A new report from a consortium representing six Gulf States lays out how to make health information exchange among states part of disaster preparedness and response.

The effort, begun in late 2010 and supported by the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT, included representatives from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. Recommendations in the report pertain to other states, as well. A major goal of the initiative is to incorporate disaster planning earlier in health information exchange projects, according to a new ONC blog posting.

Recommendations include:

• Review state disaster response and governance policies, as they may not address the sharing of health information during a disaster.
• Develop standard procedures to share electronic health information across state lines before a disaster occurs.
• Establish a waiver of liability for release of records and to default state privacy and security rules to existing HIPAA standards in a disaster.
• Engage local HIEs, and private and public health information networks such as delivery systems, insurers, and electronic health records vendors, to increase sources from which health information may be exchanged. “Health information sharing during a disaster should not rely solely on the State HIE, but on a more effective network of health information-sharing networks.”
• Consider a phased approach to building interstate HIE capabilities. The report includes a three-phased approach as a roadmap for state HIEs to consider.

The report is available here.