Wednesday Morning EBM Technology News
Interesting article from Information World Review on the “Information Specialist in Context” in healthcare. Nothing revelatory, but good stuff on evidence based medicine (or evidence based healthcare) and changes anticipated with the adoption of EMRs (or EHRs). Good to have another reminder that the profession is changing in exciting ways- and that medical libraryfolk need to dive right in as soon and as hard as possible. (Which makes me think of Dean Giustini’s comments.)
Last paragraph:
Health librarians no longer find themselves only staffing reference desks or building collections. Emerging roles are surfacing in all arenas and within all these roles information professionals can start to develop medicine as an information profession.
The article also mentions Evidence Matters:
Proquest recently moved into the EBM arena with a distribution deal with Evidence Matters. Suzanne BeDell, vice-president of Higher Education Publishing ProQuest, says: “Evidence Matters has ambitious plans in terms of content and we plan to continue to make it more usable and provide more synthesis.”
Interesting that the same morning I find this article, I also find one on Evidence Matters, announcing that it “…is releasing specialty content in three new areas for its evidence-based search engine.”
In addition to this module release, Evidence Matters recently enhanced its user interface. Improvements included a simplified look to the Evidence Matters basic search page for IP-recognition users. As well, the advanced Question Wizard form has been reorganized to make it even easier to construct searches in a PICO search structure (PICO = “Patient/Problem,” “Intervention,” “Comparison,” “Outcome”). The PICO search structure provides for more evidence-based results. New one-click contextual help is now available throughout the product web pages. Evidence Matters can be accessed at http://www.evidencematters.com.
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