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MLA Sunrise Seminar: MedlinePlus
Slide 1
MLA Sunrise Seminar: MedlinePlus
Paula Kitendaugh,
Head, Reference
& Web Services Section
Public Services
Division
Slide 2
What's
new and what's coming...
Recent
enhancements
New search engine and clustering
Foreign language release
Go Local growth
NIHSeniorHealth.gov
Future
Slide 3
Benefits of the new search engine:
First
results are the best results
Highlighting
search term
"Spotlighting"
health topics
Spell-checker
Phrase
and Boolean searching
Slide 4
Clustering
Images of MedlinePlus search results page with Collections box and new Clusters box.
Slide 5
Search: Cholesterol
Related results are "clustered" together
Results overview at a glance
Quickly find valuable but lower ranked
results
Image of Clusters box
Slide 6
Multiple Languages on MedlinePlus
Image: New MedlinePlus multiple languages page
Slide 7
Multiple Languages on MedlinePlus
Top
request of hospital and public librarians
Limited
English proficient patients:
2 out 3 physicians see them
Account for 12% of all patients
Image:
New MedlinePlus multiple languages page
Slide 8
Multiple language content, same commitment to quality
English
equivalent available
Audience
is the layperson in the U.S.
Translation
process or review indicated
Image: MedlinePlus West Nile Virus multiple languages page
Slide 9
Go
Local: May 2007
Image of
Go Local map with existing Go Local partner states highlighted
Slide 10
May
2008: New sites!
Images
of new sites added in past year:
My
Health Minnesota - Go Local
Iowa - Go Local
Health - E Illinois
ARHealthLINK - Arkansas Go Local
Heart of Texas - Go Local
Georgia Health - Go Local
Slide 11
Future
Go Local Sites
Image of
Go Local map with sites in progress
Slide 12
NIH
Senior Health
Toolkit
for Trainers
36
Topics
Enhanced
accessibility features
Images
of NIH Senior Health homepage
Slide 13
Future
Audio
EMR/PHR linking
Web 2.0
Redesign
Slide 14
Audio: English Topic Summary
Image of MedlinePlus health topic page with future "audio" button on the page.
Slide 15
Personal Health Records
Image of personal health record sample - showing connection from that PHR to MedlinePlus consumer health information pages.
Slide 16
The
Challenge: Vocabulary Mapping
Sample
ICD-9 Codes
M+
Topics
Image of sample ICD9 codes linking to related medlineplus topics. Image illustrates that it is not a one to one match.
Slide 17
MedlinePlus:
Web 2.0
New
technologies and services that will allow people to use MedlinePlus how they
want to use it
Slide 18
MedlinePlus Design: A look back...
Images of MedlinePlus homepages starting in 1999 through 2003. The last one, 2003, shows that the MedlinePlus homepage looks very similar today's homepage - over 5 years later!
Slide 19
Why redesign?
Image of homepage with content added since 2003 circled.
Slide 20
Why redesign?
Image of MedlinePlus homepage with trouble spots circled.
Slide 21
Thank
you
Questions,
suggestions and comments are always welcome!
Last reviewed: 03 June 2008
Last updated: 03 June 2008
First published: 03 June 2008
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