NLM Strategic Opportunities and Challenges: We Want to Hear from You!

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Guest post by Mike Huerta, PhD, director of the Office of Strategic Initiatives and associate director of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. “A Platform for Biomedical Discovery and Data-Powered Health,” NLM’s current 10-year strategic plan, envisions three goals with a 2027 horizon:  Accelerate discovery and advance health through data-driven research. Reach … Continue reading NLM Strategic Opportunities and Challenges: We Want to Hear from You!

Glad to Meet You Virtually: Reflections on the MLA Conference

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I’ve just “returned” from the Medical Library Association (MLA) ’20 Conference Live Action Week held August 10–14. After much deliberation and rescheduling, this meeting, like so many others, was reimagined in a virtual format using video, text and chats, and online presentations to connect attendees. Returned is a funny term because, of course, I didn’t … Continue reading Glad to Meet You Virtually: Reflections on the MLA Conference

Watch All About It!

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Photo of man working on laptop with a graphic that says that PubMed has 2.5 million users to the left

Guest post by Bart Trawick, PhD, director of the Customer Services Division at the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. NLM’s PubMed is the most heavily used biomedical literature citation database in the world. PubMed provides free access to more than 30 million citations and is searched by more … Continue reading Watch All About It!

Introducing the NIH Guide Notice Encouraging Researchers to Adopt U.S. Core Data for Interoperability Standard

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Recently, NIH issued a guide notice (NOT-OD-20-146) encouraging NIH-supported clinical programs and researchers to adopt and use the standardized set of healthcare data classes, data elements, and associated vocabulary standards in the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) standard. This standard will make it easier to exchange health information for research and clinical care, and … Continue reading Introducing the NIH Guide Notice Encouraging Researchers to Adopt U.S. Core Data for Interoperability Standard