Portals: Its a Jungle Out There

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Portals Its a Jungle Out There!

• Pam White, Consumer Health Coordinator
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine,
• New England Region
• University of Connecticut Health Center
• Farmington, CT
• pwhite_at_nso.uchc.edu

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What is a portal?

• A multi-featured very large web site.
• (webopedia.com, techweb.com)
• A starting point for web searching and browsing.
  
• (whatis.techtarget.com)

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Health-related Portals

• Web-based Physician Services
• Hospital Intranet/Knowledge Management
• Electronic Medical Record - maintained by
  Consumer, Physician, or Insurance Company
• Library Portal
• Very large, multi-featured site

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Why Should I Care?
Internet companies are continually merging and
expanding services. Electronic records systems
are gravitating towards the inclusion of decision
support materials and library-related
content. Your Information Technology staff will
learn to love you!
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Why Should I Care?
71 of online health consumers register at
health sites and use personalization features.
(California HealthCare Foundation 2000/Cyber
Dialogue 1999)
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Selected Portals A Comparison
WebMD CBS HealthWatch MEDEM DRKoop NBCi Health
Channel thriveonline Intellihealth MayoClinic
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Features Metasite (Directory of Other Sites)
Home Page Health Links Non-health content
H.P. Links Navigation Aids Privacy
Scale Registration Personalization
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MEDLINE Interactive Health Tools Health
Record e-Business Discussion Boards Real
Time Chat Ask a Physician
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Physician Messaging News Push Ads or
Information Languages Literacy
Levels Health content authors
named Newsletters Partners
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http//www.webmd.com
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Accessed through MEDEM
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Within shopping directory
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