Are you interested in learning about electronic health records? The NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region held an Electronic Health Record Forum in October of 2008. The purpose of the forum was to “ensure that health sciences librarians are an integral and important part of the electronic health records (EHR) team in healthcare organizations.” Speakers included several medical informatics experts.

The forum audio was recorded, and you can access it as well as notes and resources from this page:

http://nnlm.gov/pnr/advocacy/ehr-forum.html

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Alison Aldrich, Technology Coordinator for the NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region, wrote an interesting blog post called, “(Fire)Wallflowers Invited to Dance?” She presents some evidence that firewall rules against Web 2.0 tools (such as blogs, wikis, etc.) are beginning to relax a bit at hospital libraries. Her blog post is available at: http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2009/01/27/firewallflowers/

Well worth reading! Note also the comment below the blog post.

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