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L&D Associates Consulting Group is pleased to announce that it has received a series of contracts from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (South Central Region) to provide mobile health information training services to health care professionals and health care consumers.
Santa Fe Indian Hospitalﾒs Access to Electronic Consumer Health Information Program
L&D Associates Consulting Group, Inc., in collaboration with the Santa Fe Indian Hospital, is pleased to announce it has been awarded a contract from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. The contract, entitled Access to Electronic Consumer Health Information, will address health information needs of Tribal communities served by the Santa Fe Indian Hospital.
 The Program will continue to provide training workshops on the use of PubMed, Loansome Doc and other evidence-based medical information resources for paraprofessionals in the Santa Fe Indian Hospital's service area and eHealth access training to health consumers in the area.
L&D Associates will begin scheduling training sessions through the Santa Fe Indian Hospital and the New Mexico State Library. One training session will be held at the Albuquerque Area Office of the Indian Health Service.
Training will be offered in the following areas:
- eHealth
- PubMed
- LoansomeDoc
- MedLine Plus
- Search Engines
- Document Retrieval
- Public Health Resources on the Net
- Online Consumer Health
- Tox Map
In 2005, L&D Associates Consulting Group along with the Santa Fe Indian Hospital was awarded a Health Information Outreach to Special Populations grant. This program will provide public health nurses in the Indian Hospital with handheld computers to search, retrieve and deliver relevant evidence-based health information at the point-of-care in Tribal health centers in rural and frontier New Mexico.
To schedule a training session on health information retrieval and searching strategies please go to the L&D Associates' Feedback page and complete the feedback form with specific interests and potential dates for a training session.
Medical Library Association South Central Chapter Annual Meeting
Visit the SCC/MLA - 2005 Web Site.
PubMed Training
 An online training program is available at the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Click on the NN/LM logo below to go to the training tools.
Search PubMed by clicking on the icon below.
Treo 650 SmartPhone Updates and Utility
Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER)
The 2.1 release of WISER has updated data, more refined search results and a new print capability from the Windows version. Available for the Palm, Pocket PC and Windows desktop/laptops.
Go to the WISER home page to download the new versions.
Coming soon ... in the next few weeks we will announce WOW - Wiser On the Web. We'll send out a notice as soon as it ready for you.
WISER is a system designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. WISER provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice.
PubMed for Palm and PocketPC operating systems.
PubMed on Tap has adopted a new name, MEDLINE Database on Tap, or MD on Tap, or just MDoT. Our introductory client is now available for PDAs and smartphones with either the PocketPC operating system or the Palm operating system.
PubMed is now available for your handheld devices. MDoT has been released by the National Library of Medicine and is available through the links below.
MDoT is an application for PDAs that retrieves MEDLINEﾮ citations directly from the PDA through a wireless connection to the Internet. MDoT features include several PubMed search limits, a history of previous queries, the ability to save citations to the Memo Pad, two clustered results options, and link-out to full-text Web sites.
MDoT version 1.7 is available online by clicking on your specific client.
Go to the download page for the Palm OS client here.
Go to the download page for the PocketPC client here.
MEDLINE Database on Tap Screen Shot Examples
When the Auto Spell Check option is selected, ambiguous search terms are replaced with those terms suggested by an internal NLM e-spell utility for the actual search. The actual terms used are shown at the bottom of the Search tab.
As an alternative to the default PubMed search engine, you can select Essie, an experimental probabilistic search engine developed at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. Essie ranks results by relevance, then by date.
These options can be combined with any (or all!) of the other search options. Also, a big, friendly ﾓGoﾔ button has replaced the magnifying glass as the icon to tap to execute your search. Screenshots explaining the new options can be seen at MDoT Screen Shot Examples.
PDA Training
Online training sessions are also available for handheld computers and personal digital assistants. Click on the PDA icon below to go to these sessions.
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Accessories
Accessories for Treo 650/700P SmartPhones can be found at our affiliate sponsor here.
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To schedule on-site training for PubMed and PDA please go to the Feedback Form page and complete all sections of the form and submit.
Additional training is planned for the use of personal digital assistants in the rural and frontier clinical setting. Additional information will be posted on this web site.
National Library of Medicine Software and System Updates
Check this site often to learn of new updates to NLM software and training tools.
DOCLine 2.5 Release
New Public Health Information and Data Tutorial Released
NN/LM Tutorial Using Loansome Doc
Excellent "walk through" on the use of Loansome Doc and requesting documents found on PubMed
Loansome Doc 2.5
New Look for Loansome Doc: Document Ordering System Gets Redesign
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Information Outreach