Enjoy UpToDate (UTD) at UMHS
UpToDate (UTD) for Evidence-based Clinical Decision Support is now provided to UMHS students and faculty! Check out the access link on the Anne Ross Library Home page and further information on the UMHS LMS - Library Services section.
"When you care for patients, the stakes are high and every decision counts.You need the best evidence and clinical guidance at your fingertips to answer even the most complex questions with confidence.
Healthcare professionals turn to UpToDate as the one trusted reference for answers even when the evidence isn’t clear. When you face a challenging clinical question or need to confirm your approach, you can turn to UpToDate for trusted answers based on the latest evidence and best practice.
Registration provides the following benefits:
Easy remote access to UpToDate(outside of the UMHS network)
Convenient continuing education credits (CME/CE/CPD)earned researching clinical questions using UpToDate onsite, remotely, and on mobile.
CME Real-time reflection: Look for the blue checkmark in the top navigation of the topic review to complete your CME reflection in real-time.
Electronically submit UpToDate CME credits for MOC points for these boards:
American boards of Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology (head and neck surgery), Pathology,Pediatrics, and Surgery."
Labels: Anne Ross Library, clinical decision support, CME, evidence-based medicine, evidence-based practice, mobile medicine, new library resources, UMHS, UpToDate, UTD
The
Access Medicine App is now available to UMHS faculty and students for your mobile devices.
This resource contains
four of the key diagnostic resources that are in
Access Medicine:
- Quick Medical Dx & Rx
- Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas of Clinical Dermatology
- Diagnosaurus
- Diagnostic Tests
Steps to set up on your mobile:
- Download the App to your device.
- Using a browser on your device, navigate to the Access Medicine website
- Sign in with your personal login.
- Minimize this screen and now open the App
- Sign into the App with your personal login.
- It will take a minute to download and then you are go to go!
If you need further assistance with your set up please contact the library.
Enjoy!
Labels: Access Medicine, Diagnosaurus, diagnostic tools, mobile applications, mobile medicine, UMHS student resources
You thought there were two kinds of medicine correct, the "quack" kind, and the
evidence-based kind. Dr. Eric Topol presents a case for a third kind of
medicine.
"Topol argues in
The Creative Destruction of Medicine [Basic Books, 9780465061839] it's by bringing the era of big data to the clinic,
laboratory, and hospital. Wearable sensors, smartphone apps, and
whole-genome scans provide the raw materials for a revolution.
Combining all the data those tools can provide will give us a complete
and continuously updated picture of every patient, changing everything
from the treatment of disease, to the prolonging of health, to the
development of new treatments. As revolutionary as the past twenty years
in personal technology and medicine have been, Topol makes
it clear that we haven't seen a thing yet."
"Dr. Brian McDonough welcomes Dr. Eric Topol, Scripps Health Chief
Academic Officer and Editor-in-Chief of Medscape, to discuss on
ReachMD the vision
and research behind his book
The Creative Destruction of Medicine.
Dr. Topol reflects on the evolving personalization of medical care facilitated by technological advancements, and how health systems can leverage the personalized medicine movement toward greater transparency in care for patients."
Labels: biomedical informatics, digital revolution, Dr. Eric Topol, electronic medical records, healthcare technology, medical trends, mobile medicine, personalized medicine, ReachMD, trends in healthcare
What is Omnio?
With the
Omnio® medical iPAD app
'up your sleeve' you can truly hold all your favorite medical must-haves
'at-hand'.
Omnio was created by
Skyscape Medical Resources to arm the medical professional with the latest information they need to face whatever their day may throw at them.
"This is the most comprehensive medical app I have seen. It combines
everything in one place. It has good pharmacological profiles, good
calculators, access to journal articles, and textbooks.”
Omnio meets your daily need for medical news, medical reference, a drug guide, calculators, and
ebooks. Pull in your UMHS access to
DynaMed, the acclaimed clinical point-of-care database from EBSCO, and away you go!
If you already use the Skyscape app ( for example for DynaMed), you can sign
in to Omnio with your existing credentials. When you enter, check the
“Library”—you’ll find your favorite mobile resources waiting for you. For further help to set this up come and see us in the Library.
Labels: clinical point-of-care tools, DynaMed, iPad Apps, medical apps, mobile applications, mobile medical information, mobile medicine, Omnio, Skyscape
While federal incentive dollars are trying to work to encourage hospitals and other health care organizations to use electronic health record systems (EHRs), without much prompting, healthcare providers are showing themselves eager adopters of medical "apps". A recent survey of 4,000 physicians in the US found that nearly 80 percent use smartphones, while among the general population only 28 percent use smartphones. Another report estimates that by 2012 about half of physicians who have smartphones will use them in their work for administrative functions, research, and patient care.
"Nineteen percent of physicians use a tablet personal computer in their work, while 69 percent said they are likely to do so in the next few years. Only 5 percent of the U.S. population owns a tablet."
Click on the post title to read the full
Quality Matters newsletter article from
The Commonwealth Fund.
Labels: electronic medical records, EMR, healthcare information technology, healthcare technology, medical apps, mobile medicine, trends in healthcare
Now when you login to our
EBSCOhost databases you will notice a new button to access a mobile friendly version of the search interface!
So now you should all be good to go! You have mobile access to our
Library Catalogue,
DynaMed and now all the other EBSCO journal databases such as
Medline & CINAHL with Full Text!
Check out the
Toolkits as well for links to information on
mobile 'Apps' for medicine and nursing.
Labels: Caribbean medical education, database searching, hand-held computer applications, IUON, mobile access, mobile applications, mobile medicine, UMHS-SK, University of Medicine and Health Sciences
If you would like to access the
DynaMed point-of-care database on your PDA's or SmartPhones,
please come and see us in the Library to obtain you serial number login!Labels: Anne Ross Library, Caribbean Medical School, DynaMed, library resources, mobile applications, mobile medicine, PDA's, smart phones, UMHS-SK, University of Medicine and Health Sciences
This week on Dr. John Halamka's award-winning blog, he outlines 5 arguments in favor of the
iPod Touch for healthcare applications, labelling it
"the mobile clinical data viewing and educational device of the future". Click on the title to read how Dr. Halamka backs up this claim...Labels: healthcare information technology, healthcare technology, informatics, iPod Touch, medical informatics, mobile devices, mobile medicine, smart phones
DynaMed available on your PDA
Attention students and faculty ~Please let us know at the Library if you would like access to the
DynaMed point-of-care database via your
PDA. I will be putting in the request early next week
[by May 20, 2008] ~ so if you desire access in this format
PLEASE let us know
ASAPLabels: clinical medicine, DynaMed, International University of Nursing, IUON, mobile applications, mobile medical information, mobile medicine, PDA software, UMHS-SK, University of Medicine and Health Sciences
