Understanding Healthcare Information

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Understanding Healthcare Information

• HLG Conference July 19th-20th 2010
• Lyn Robinson
• lyn_at_soi.city.ac.uk

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What does a healthcare information specialist
need to know?
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Something about information resources?

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UCL Medical School Library
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• data-protection privacy freedom-of-information
  personal-profile security identity-theft ebooks
  3G iPad smart-phones books libraries
  digital-collections repositories digitization
  avatar apps open-data gps data-visualization
  social-network-services social-media censorship
  preservation centralized-data-collection
  database-state collection-mangement meta-data
  semantic-web classification tags thesauri mashups
  search retrieval users information-architecture
  3D-graphics

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the information communication chain

• creator gt dissemination gt organization gt
  indexing/retrieval gt user
• Robinson L (2009). Information Science the
  information chain and domain analysis. Journal of
  Documentation, vol 65(4), 578-591.

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Domain Analysis

• epistemological studies
• historical studies
• user studies
• bibliometrics
• creation of resource guides
• knowledge organization
• informal retrieval
• Hjorland B (2002). Domain Analysis in
  Information Science. Journal of Documentation vol
  58(4), 422-462.

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Drivers for Change

• technology
• economics
• politics
• society

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The ipad

• 3 million sold in 80 days since US launch

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• the end of printed materials?
• the death of the library?
• no need for information specialists?

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Understanding Healthcare Information

• understanding of the information communication
  chain, as it applies to the domain of healthcare
• working to facilitate communication between the
  author and the user
• fundamental practice - not likely to change soon

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