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October 16, 2001
Ethicist Caplan To Give Talk on Global Health, Oct. 22 Post-Sept. 11 Security Measures Mimic NIH Response after Pearl Harbor Genetic Risks Shape Donations Enhance NIH Museum of Medical Research Summer Student Is Competition Finalist Youth Scholars Give NIDCR Staff Visit Jefferson Junior High School Satcher Gives
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New Clinical Research Information System Planned to Replace MIS By Carla Garnett
In 1975, having a TV-like device that sat on the desktop and offered
immediate access to hundreds of thousands of pages of patient
records seemed like only a dream for the nurses, physicians,
pharmacists and dozens of other professionals charged with patient
care at the Clinical Center. But MIS — the computerized
medical information system that made its NIH debut that
year — turned the dream into a reality. Designed to collect,
transmit and store information about patients, MIS was a pioneering
system few other hospitals could boast having at the time. Now,
however, with a PC atop every other surface one encounters,
MIS — which has grown a lot, but changed only a
little — seems to many users antiquated and limiting. NIH Rowers Train Together, Oppose One Another By Rich McManus
Three mornings during the workweek, at the ungodly hour of 5:30,
two NIH scientists rendezvous at a dock in Georgetown and push
off for more than 10 miles of self-imposed punishment pitting leg,
back and arm muscles against the tides on the Potomac River. They
do this year-round (plus weekends), except on rare occasions when
the river freezes solid. And on mornings when the river forbids
them — as it did during the recent terrorist crisis, which
closed portions of the river for security reasons — they meet
in a basement to train on ergometers, which are rowing machines
without the fresh air, sensation of motion or contemplation of dawn
associated with the substantial suffering that is rowing. They do this
because they want to get better, they want to win, and they want to
beat one another in the worst way. Welcome to "oar-agon," the
sweat-spattered friendship of NIDDK's Dr. Adriaan Bax and Dr.
Chuck Selden, NIH extramural staff training officer.
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Rower Dr. Chuck Selden