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Jun
13
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This is a guest post written by Jon Anscher on behalf of the Northwest Regional Primary Care Association. The NWRPCA received a Technology Improvement Award from the NN/LM PNR to purchase equipment for capturing sessions at the organization’s two annual conferences. Community Health Centers (CHCs) need a comprehensive learning environment with modularized learning components that… Read More »
Posted in: Funding, News From NNLM PNR, Technology
May
29
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MeSH on Demand is a new tool announced in this month’s NLM Technical Bulletin and is available online for use: http://ii.nlm.nih.gov/Interactive/MeSHonDemand.shtml. This is one of the Natural Language Processing tools being developed in the Cognitive Science Branch of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, a division of the NLM. The on Demand tool analyzes… Read More »
Posted in: News from NLM, Technology
May
27
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Emily Hurst from NN/LM SCR, Vanessa Mason, and McCrae Parker will present in this Health Happens in Libraries webinar from OCLC tomorrow, May 28th at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific. As the intersection of digital technology and individual health management grows, patrons will turn to libraries to access digital resources and learn how to put… Read More »
Posted in: Technology, Training & Education
May
02
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We are now three years into the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare’s Meaningful Use EHR adoption incentive program. According to CMS’s website, as of March of this year, $14.8 billion in payments have been made to the over 470,000 providers and hospitals participating in the program. Those are some big numbers! But what about the… Read More »
Posted in: Technology
Feb
28
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Division of Specialized Information Services K-12 Workgroup has released classroom activities and lesson plans to supplement the Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness website. For grades 6-12, these classroom activities and lesson plans familiarize students to the health and medicine of Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. The activities… Read More »
Posted in: News from NLM, Technology