Archive for February, 2008

Congratulations to the MLA 2008 award winners!

Congratulations to MLA-Phil chapter members who won MLA 2008 awards:

Mark Puterbaugh, Warner Memorial Library, Eastern University, St. Davids, PA
Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship

and

Karen Albert, AHIP, Talbot Research Library, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Grant

See mlanet.org for a full list of winners.

The Leslie Nicholas Lecture: Health Information Technology in the 21st Century

March 27, 2008
6:15 pmto8:30 pm

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Presents

The Leslie Nicholas Lecture

Health Information Technology in the 21st Century:
Where Are We and What’s Next?

David Bates, MD
Chief, Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Medical Director, Clinical and Quality Analysis, Partner’s Healthcare Systems
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health

Read more>>>

Consultant Needed

Pharmaceutical company based in Exton, PA seeks consultant to advise on the development of an in-house medical library. Please contact matt.marcus@viropharma.com.

Dr. Albert C. Barnes: The Physician, the Collector, and the Collection

March 11, 2008
6:15 pmto8:30 pm
Presented by William S. Tasman, MD, former Ophthalmologist-in-Chief, Wills Eye Institute and Professor and Emeritus Chairman of Ophthalmology, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University; and Derek Gillman, LLM, Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation, this program will explore the remarkable life of Dr. Albert C. Barnes both as a physician (and his role in the development of Argyrol) and as the collector of what is now one of the world’s largest collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings..

Tuesday March 11, 2008, 6.15 pm

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
19 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia

Complimentary Reception to Follow Program

To register call 215.563.3737, ext. 304 or email lectures@collphyphil.org

Visit http://www.collphyphil.org to register on-line and for a complete listing of programs

This program is supported, in part, by Citizens Bank.

Personal Health Records: Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy

Prepared by Robert Gellman for the World Privacy Forum, “This document offers a legal and policy analysis of the privacy consequences for consumer health information stored on or by Personal Health Records systems that are not subject to the HIPAA health privacy rule.” The document is dated February 20, 2008. It is 17 pp. long (PDF), and is available here.




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