NLM Musings from the Mezzanine
Innovations in Health Information from the Director of the National Library of Medicine
Guest post by Karmen S. Williams, DrPH, MBA, Assistant Professor at City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and Meera G. Subash, MD, Assistant Professor and Division Quality Officer for the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Texas Health Science Center, McGovern Medical School. "Everyone, at every point … Continue reading What is the Role of a Mentor?
This blog post is by Lyric Jorgenson, PhD, the Acting Director of the NIH Office of Science Policy. It was originally posted on May 12 on the NIH Office of Science Policy Under the Poliscope blog. We encourage you to read it and submit comments and feedback on the draft supplemental information to the NIH … Continue reading Gearing Up for 2023 Part II: Implementing the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
Right now, I am reading The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. It’s a fanciful story of a woman in limbo between life and death who finds herself in a magical library, and each book represents one of the lives she could have lived had she made even one tiny different decision. She then finds herself … Continue reading Midnight in the Library
This blog post by Lynne Parker, Director, National AI Initiative Office, and Rashida Richardson, Senior Policy Advisor for Data and Democracy, was originally posted on the White House OSTP blog. We encourage you to read it and submit comments on the update to the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan by Friday March … Continue reading Request for Public Comment: National AI Research and Development Strategic Plan
Guest post by Laura K. Povlich, PhD, Program Director at the NIH Fogarty International Center (FIC) and Tiffani B. Lash, PhD, Program Director for the NIH National Institutes of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). They co-coordinate the DS-I Africa program with assistance from a trans-NIH Working Group that includes Patricia Brennan, RN, PhD, Director of … Continue reading Through DS-I Africa, NIH is Fostering a New Health Data Science Community
Guest post by Dianne Babski, Associate Director for Library Operations at NLM; Zhiyong Lu, PhD, Senior Investigator for the Computational Biology Branch at NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI); and Donald Comeau, PhD, Staff Scientist at NCBI. In January 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released their Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy … Continue reading NLM is a Leader in Using AI to Improve User Experiences
Guest post by Taunton Paine, MA, Director of the Division of Scientific Data Sharing Policy, NIH Office of Science Policy Behind the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy In November 2021, NIH published a request for information seeking public input on the future of the NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy. Originally published in 2014, the … Continue reading Help Us Modernize NIH’s Genomic Data Sharing Policy
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2021 Annual Symposium is coming to a close today, and I was honored to moderate NLM’s Annual Update Panel. This was an opportunity to talk about NLM’s contributions to NIH data science and tools, common data elements and clinical informatics. Over the last 40 years I’ve proudly served in … Continue reading Leveraging the Value of Biomedical Informatics Across NIH
Guest post by Valerie Schneider, PhD, staff scientist at the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. In a post from earlier this year, A Journey to Spur Innovation and Discovery, I shared news of an exciting NIH-supported NLM initiative, now known as the NIH Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR). … Continue reading Using Comparative Genomics to Advance Scientific Discoveries
Part 3 of a three-part series discussing the importance of imagination. Part 1 is here and part 2 is here. Over the past two months, I’ve been sharing my ideas about the importance of cultivating imagination to stimulate innovation. Most of this is great fun, and I hope I’ve enticed you to do some of … Continue reading Imagination: A Process. Not a Moment