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Guest post by Griffin P. Rodgers, MD, MACP, Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at NIH. Dr. Rodgers hosts the weekly Healthy Moments Radio Broadcast, that offers tips to audiences on how to prevent and manage the various diseases within NIDDK’s mission. If a loved one tells you … Continue reading Translating Research into Health Information You Can Trust
Guest post by Sarah Rossetti, RN, PhD, FAAN, FACMI, FAMIA, and S. Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH, FACMI, FAMIA, Co-Chairs of the 25 By 5 Symposium Health professionals are consistently being recognized for their heroic efforts to manage illness during the COVID-19 pandemic in the face of unprecedented challenges. As doctors, nurses, and all health care … Continue reading 25×5: Decreasing Documentation Burden on U.S. Clinicians
As the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2030 prepares its new statement for Healthy People 2030, NLM has been asked to review and comment on the definition of health literacy. This request has provided a good opportunity for me to consider how NLM facilitates health literacy — but … Continue reading Individual and Organizational Health Literacy: A Key to the Future of Health
For years, I’ve talked about the “care between the care,” which occurs between patients’ visits to the hospital, clinic, or ER. It’s abundantly clear that the real action is happening in everyday life, yet so much of our clinician education, information technology development, and standards of practice address only that very short time when patients … Continue reading Envisioning a Future of Better Patient Self-Management
Guest post by Teresa Przytycka, PhD, Senior Investigator, Computational and Systems Biology section of the Computational Biology Branch at the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. The functioning of any complex system involves interactions between elements of that system. This is true at the cellular level, the macro … Continue reading The Significance of Network Biology
Guest post by Elizabeth Chen, PhD, Associate Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Associate Professor of Medical Science, and Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice at Brown University. Biomedical informatics as a discipline is broadly concerned with the effective use of data, information, and knowledge to improve human health. Since its origins … Continue reading Technology and Data in Mental Health: Applications for Suicide Prevention
In honor of National Nurses Week, this nurse—now library director—is wondering how NLM, the world’s largest repository of biomedical knowledge, serves nurses and nursing. Certainly, the Library—with its rich collections and extensive services—addresses the scientific, scholarly practice of nursing well, but what about the other dimensions of nurses’ ways of knowing? In 1975, for her … Continue reading Celebrating Nurses’ Ways of Knowing
Broadening our vision
Data-powered health heralds a revolution in medical research and health care. Data-powered health relies upon knowing more—more input in the moment, more details across systems, more people (and their data) contributing to the overall picture. Data-powered health ushers in a new biomedical research paradigm in which patient-generated data complements clinical, observational, and experimental data to … Continue reading It Takes a Whole Library to Create a World of Data-powered Health
Guest post by Lincoln Weed, son of the late Dr. Lawrence L. Weed and co-author with him of the book Medicine in Denial and other publications. Dr. Weed, who died June 3, 2017, was the originator of "knowledge coupling" tools for clinical decision support and the problem-oriented medical record, including its problem list and SOAP note components. "Patients are sitting on a treasure … Continue reading Larry Weed’s Legacy and the Next Generation of Clinical Decision Support