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Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): Information Flows (Week of August 19, 2013) 23 Aug 2013 | 06:56 pm
I am seriously intrigued by this health record information flow diagram that has been making the rounds on Twitter recently. Must see diagram: Who receives #patients #health #data? by @theIOM via @A...
Is Google Knowledge? Is a Library? 23 Aug 2013 | 12:23 am
Is Google Knowledge? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCwLQrJz4Bo I love PBS Idea Channel, but sometimes the provoking ideas proposed stretch my comfort zone. They...
Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): Sam Ford & Smörgåsbord (Week of August 12, 2013) 17 Aug 2013 | 01:31 am
Isn’t that a nice rhyme for a late Friday afternoon? Sam Ford and Smörgåsbord? But really, it is about healthcare. This week the Carpool Healthcare chat (#CPHC) had Sam Ford as an invited guest on the...
Maker Movement Meets Healthcare 13 Aug 2013 | 08:37 am
When I try to talk to peers and colleagues about the Maker Movement, one of the questions that keeps coming up over and over is what the heck this has to do with healthcare, and why am I bothering to ...
Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): Medical Librarians Take On Emerging Technology (Week of August 5, 2013) 10 Aug 2013 | 01:29 am
MLA Systematic Review: Emerging Technologies: http://bit.ly/MLASRetech OR https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHBacW9KdmlSWUpzbW1ieGVzTkFPZ3c6MQ The Medical Library Association has i...
Archiving the History of Our Profession: MeSH 50th Anniversary 4 Aug 2013 | 11:53 pm
Many of you know that part of the reason for the decline in my online presence is that I’ve been hard at work for several months now on a few book chapters, the most recent pair about searching for in...
Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): Beyond the Microbiome (Week of July 29, 2013) 2 Aug 2013 | 06:28 pm
I’ve been blogging elsewhere about microbiome research, and collecting a ridiculous number of links and articles about it. I’ve been lucky enough to have long conversations with some of our faculty wh...
Last Week in the Arxiv: H-Index, Healthcare, Public Health, Pinterest, Philosophy, and More 29 Jul 2013 | 06:13 pm
As an emerging technologies librarian, I scan information in many different places. For the most part, I end up scanning spaces (Twitter, Google Plus, Facebook, Pinterest, etc), sources (MIT Tech Revi...
Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): Science communication and outreach (Week of July 21, 2013) 26 Jul 2013 | 07:47 pm
This week I stumbled into several conversations on science trends, science communication, and science publishing that sounded so similar I started to get confused about whether they were different has...
Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): Open Access Evolution & Predators (Week of July 15, 2013) 19 Jul 2013 | 07:09 pm
Earlier this week, Irina posted a piece on how open access publications have grown by leaps and bounds under the NIH Mandate. The post highlighted some fascinating data (open data, by the way) showing...
