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Posts by author: Alison Aldrich

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Dec

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Call for Proposals: Technology Improvement Awards, Winter 2010

Posted by on December 11th, 2009 0 comments

We are excited to announce another round of funding from the NN/LM PNR to support purchase, installation, and/or upgrading of hardware and software to enhance access to health information. Up to three (3) awards of up to $5,000 each are available to NN/LM member organizations in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. The purpose of… Read More »

Posted in: Funding, Technology

Dec

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Help Shape the Healthy People 2020 Objectives

Posted by on December 1st, 2009 0 comments

The Healthy People goals and objectives establish a broad set of national priorities for disease prevention and health promotion. Every ten years, stakeholders representing government and non-government public health agencies come together to negotiate a set of objectives for the next decade. These objectives have important implications for research and funding opportunities. The U.S. Department… Read More »

Posted in: News from NLM

Nov

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Minding Gaps and Visualizing Data

Posted by on November 24th, 2009 0 comments

Gapminder is an international non-profit organization with a mission to better use statistics for “minding the gaps” in socioeconomic indicators within and among populations. Gapminder World features colorful animated graphs that show trends over time in a very compelling way. In this video, Gapminder founder Hans Rosling interprets a graph about global development over the… Read More »

Posted in: Technology

Nov

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True Tales of Technology Improvement

Posted by on November 10th, 2009 0 comments

by Jane Saxton Director of Library Services Bastyr University Kenmore, WA “We live forward, but we understand backward.” -William James This is the True Story of what happened when we received an NN/LM PNR Technology Improvement Award.

Posted in: Funding, Technology

Nov

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More About E-Patients

Posted by on November 4th, 2009 0 comments

Hope Leman, Research Information Technologist at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis, Oregon, submitted the following as a comment on our October 27 post E-Patients Rising. I am re-posting it here in order to highlight the great resources Hope suggests for learning more about the e-patient movement. Thanks Hope! — I have been to… Read More »

Posted in: Technology

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