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Understanding Healthcare Information

Understanding Healthcare Information. HLG Conference July 19th-20th 2010 Lyn Robinson lyn@soi.city.ac.uk. What does a healthcare information specialist need to know?. Something about information resources?. UCL Medical School Library.

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Understanding Healthcare Information

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  1. Understanding Healthcare Information HLG Conference July 19th-20th 2010 Lyn Robinson lyn@soi.city.ac.uk

  2. What does a healthcare information specialist need to know?

  3. Something about information resources?

  4. UCL Medical School Library

  5. 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

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

  7. 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.

  8. Drivers for Change • technology • economics • politics • society

  9. The ipad • 3 million sold in 80 days since US launch

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

  11. 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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