Whats new with MedlinePlus, Go Local, and NIHSeniorHealth

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Whats new with MedlinePlus, Go Local, and
NIHSeniorHealth

• Joyce E.B. Backus
• National Library of Medicine
• National Institutes of Health
• Health and Human Services

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Outline

• Stats
• New on MedlinePlus
• Resource page for Librarians and Trainers
• Animated tour in Spanish
• American Hospital Association Directory
• Health Check Tools
• Organizations by topic
• Surgery video pilot
• Collaboration with AARP and VA
• Go Local
• NIHSeniorHealth
• Exercise stories, new topics

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MedlinePlus

• 700 Health Topics in MedlinePlus
• 648 in MedlinePlus en español
• 58,000 email list subscribers
• 60 million page views/month
• 6.5 million unique users/month

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American Customer Satisfaction Index
Thanks for responding

• Tracks trends in customer satisfaction
• Provides benchmarking data
• MedlinePlus consistently has highest government
  score

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For Librarians and Trainers

• Tours
• English Spanish sample tutorials for demos - no
  Internet connection needed
• Links to
• Evaluating Health Information Health topic
• Guide to Evaluating Health Information document
• Public Libraries and Community Partners (from the
  NN/LM)

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Tour en español
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Find a Hospital AHA directory
Find a hospital by name, zip code, or city
Driving directions from MapQuest
List of hospital services
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Health Check Tools

• Quizzes, calculators, and self-assessments
• Listed under Health Check Tools on each topic
• Entire list also available from Health Topics tab
• Also in Spanish

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Organizations by topic

• List and links to organizations producing
  consumer health information
• Link on Other Resources

Organizations by alphabet or topic
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Surgical Webcast Pilot

• Pre-recorded webcasts of surgical procedures by
  slp3D Inc. (OR-Live)
• Operations performed at US medical centers since
  January 2004
• One-hour programs
• Customized MedlinePlus RealPlayer
• Printable transcripts

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Links to videos
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Customized player
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PDF transcript
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Collaboration AARP

• AARP launched health portal August
• Licensed Healthwise, Medicare Interactive
• Customized links in Healthwise to MedlinePlus
  health topics
• Home page links to tutorials, directories,
  clinical trials, NCCAM
• Reference/Web staff trained volunteers

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AARP Health Guide
Links to M Tutorials ClinicalTrials.gov M
Directories NCCAM health info
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MedlinePlus and My HealtheVet
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Go Local Concept Breast Cancer Example

• Services Go Local
• Health screening services
• Cancer care facilities
• Support groups
• Exercise and yoga classes
• Providers of wigs and prostheses
• Oncologists

• Health info - MedlinePlus
• NIH consumer literature
• News
• Symptoms, Treatment, Coping
• MEDLINE search
• ClinicalTrials.gov search
• Genetics Home Reference links

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From MedlinePlus
From a health topic page, choose a location to
find services for that condition.
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Navigation in Go Local
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Go Local Status

• NLM Hosted
• Linked today
• Indiana
• Massachusetts
• In progress
• Alabama
• Arizona
• Delaware
• Maryland
• Michigan
• Nevada
• OhioSoutheast
• TexasEast Texas
• TexasGulf Coast
• Tribal Four Corners
• Utah
• Wyoming
• In approval
• Alaska

• Locally hosted
• Linked today
• North Carolina
• Missouri
• TexasSo Texas
• In progress
• CaliforniaLA County
• South Carolina

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Go Local Learn more

• Information Session Wed, May 18, 1230 pm
• Resources page
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Presentations by project participants
• Participation Guidelines
• System Training
• Vocabulary
• http//www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
• golocalresources.html

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NIHSeniorHealth

• New topics, more NIH Institutes
• Exercise Stories
• Award from Intl Congress on Active Aging
• New features
• printer-friendly - print full topic or selected
  chapters
• updated accessibility buttons provide more text
  sizes and clearly show contrast and speech on /
  off
• new message reminds users to turn off pop-up
  blockers

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New Topics

• Three new topics (16 total)

• Shingles (NIAID)
• Sleep and Aging (NIA)
• Low Vision (NEI)
• Age-related Macular Degeneration (NEI)

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Next topics

• Topics (by late-June)

• Diabetic Retinopathy (NEI)
• Glaucoma (NEI)
• Cataract (NEI)

• July release

• Problems with Taste (NIDCD)
• Problems with Smell (NIDCD)

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Future Topics (NIH Institute)

• Clinical Trials (NLM)
• Congestive Heart Failure (NHLBI)
• COPD (NHLBI)
• Dry Mouth (NIDCR)
• Falls and Fractures (NIA)
• Heart Attack (NHLBI)
• High Blood Pressure (NHLBI)

• High Cholesterol (NHLBI)
• Medicare (NIA)
• Older Adults and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
• Osteoporosis (NIAMS)
• Paget's Disease of Bone (NIAMS)
• Stroke (NINDS)

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Exercise Stories

• Narrative photos from seniors
• Starting out 13 stories
• Planning for national coverage with a variety of
  exercises and of ages
• The International Council on Active Aging (ICAA)
  is assisting with recruitment
• Form for Exercise Stories is linked from the
  Exercise Stories homepage

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Stats 1.6 M pages/quarter
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• Thanks for
• Responding to our surveys
• Telling NLM what you really think
• Supporting our web sites to your patrons
• Training on consumer health sites
• Keeping those suggestions coming