If so, contact Etheldra Templeton at 215-871-6486 or etheldrat@pcom.edu. For information about this position’s responsibilities, contact our current Membership Chair, Laura Koepfler, at 610-825-6000, ext. 5552 or lkoepfler@ecri.org.
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The Nominating Committee is accepting member recommendations and applications for 2009 Chapter Awards. Award and grant descriptions are posted on the Chapter website: <http://www.mlaphil.org/wp/15/grants-and-awards/>. Recommend an admired colleague or your deserving self. Do you know a librarian providing vital consumer health information or doing innovative work with technologies? Is a promising library student working in your library? Could you use some monetary support to attend a professional development workshop?
Nominations were due by March 9; the required applications and related documents are due by March 23. Nominating Committee members are Betty Warner (Chair), Melanie Cedrone, and Steve Bogel. Send all paperwork to Betty (bwarner@samaritanhospice.org).
Awards will be made at our Annual Meeting to be held on April 15 for some or all of these awards:
- Beatrice Davis Education Award
At least every other year the Philadelphia Regional Chapter/MLA will offer an award of $600.00 to an individual pursuing a career in health science librarianship. - Randy Brenner Memorial Consumer Health Award
This award is given annually to an individual or group in recognition for outstanding contributions to consumer health information services and patient education. - Grant Program for Professional Development
The Chapter /MLA will offer one grant of up to $300.00 to a librarian/information scientist in order to pursue continuing education in the area of health science librarianship. - Robert Preston Lee Memorial Award
This award is given to an individual (or group of individuals) in recognition of outstanding contribution in the application of technology to the delivery of technical services.
submitted by Etheldra Templeton
Chair, 2008-2009
SAVE THE DATE! April 15, 2009, 5pm – 8pm
It’s not just tax day; it’s also the date of our Annual Business Meeting and Reception, at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. After the business meeting, the evening’s speaker will be Josh Goldstein, a health and science reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, who will talk about how broader access and use of the Internet has impacted and changed the use of health information. Mr. Goldstein was part of an award-winning team that reported on the decline and bankruptcy of the Allegheny Health System, at the time the largest nonprofit health care bankruptcy in the country.
Josh Goldstein
We would like to thank Stat!Ref for sponsoring our speaker, and PhillyHealthInfo (a program of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia) for furnishing Mr. Goldstein’s presentation equipment.
Great speaker, grand venue, and gala reception – details to come!
Jeanette de Richemond, HTAIS Information Specialist, ECRI Institute, wrote the “Expert Searching” column entitled “Adding Value to Searches: Documenting Search Results” in the February 2009 issue of the MLA News.
Ellen Justice, Medical Librarian, Christiana Care Health System, and Barbara Bason, a practitioner of classical homeopathy in Wilmington, DE, published “The healing way of homeopathy: Similia similibus curentur or ‘let likes cure likes’” in Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 12(3), 284-292.
Jackie Luizzi has joined the staff of the Wistar Institute. She has worked at the VA Medical Center and in the medical library at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. Before coming to Wistar, she was a Reference Librarian at the Free Library of Northampton Township in Richboro. Jackie is a new member of MLA national and the Philadelphia Regional Chapter.
Robb Mackes, DelMIRA Project Coordinator for the Delaware Academy of Medicine, learned this week that he is the recipient of the Thomson Reuters/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award! Through Robb’s management, DelMIRA (Delaware Medical Information Resource Alliance) provides access to electronic databases, textbooks and journals to all acute care hospitals and four federally qualified health centers in Delaware. DelMIRA was created to “… address the disparity in access to biomedical information and health data that exists statewide and affects all types of health care institutions.” Robb can add this award to his many accomplishments, including the “Librarian of the Year” award he received in 2008 from HSLANJ: the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey.
Rachel Resnick, an information professional in Montgomery County, is a contractor on the techforltc.org project, a website that provides information about technology options in long-term care settings. She will be performing literature searches in order to update the related readings about the various care issues, and will also investigate information for educational resources section that will be included in the site in the future. The website is the result of a research project initiative by the Department of Health and Human Services to address barriers to bringing new technologies into residential care settings. Polisher Research Institute of the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life, and IDEAS, Inc. constructed the website under contract with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced “H-Cup”) is a family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a federal-state-industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). HCUP databases bring together the data collection efforts of state data organizations, hospital associations, private data organizations, and the federal government to create a national information resource of patient-level health care data (HCUP Partners) <http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/partners.jsp>. HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States, with all-payer, encounter-level information beginning in 1988. These databases enable research on a broad range of health policy issues, including cost and quality of health services, medical practice patterns, access to health care programs, and outcomes of treatments at the national, state, and local market levels.
Join us on Thursday, April 23rd from 1-4 PM for an introduction to HCUP in the ECRI Institute’s auditorium, 5200 Butler Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA, <www.ecri.org>. Participants not driving can take the R5 train <http://www.septa.org/service/destinations/montco/temple_ambler.html> to Ambler and representatives from ECRI institute will pick you up at the train station. The class is FREE and is worth four MLA CE hours. To register, email jderichemond@gmail.com.
The agenda for this class is as follows:
Introduction to HCUP Resources (60 minutes)
- Overview of healthcare administrative data
- Introduction to the 5 main types of HCUP databases
- Benefits and limitations of HCUP databases
- Discussion about the use of HCUP in medical and health services research
Example Publications Using HCUP (30 minutes)
- Review of the wide range of publications that HCUP data have supported, including selected peer-reviewed articles, AHRQ-produced documents, and congressionally-mandated reports.
Break (15 minutes)
HCUPnet – free online tool for retrieving data (45 minutes)
- Demonstration of the HCUP free querying tool
(Note: this section of the course will be very interactive)
Other HCUP-related Tools and Resources (30 minutes)
- Discussion of healthcare software tools that can be applied to HCUP data to enhance the value of the data
- Instruction on where librarians can access detailed documentation about HCUP resources
- Detailed overview of the HCUP User Support Website
Submitted by Jeanette de Richemond, MLIS, AHIP
Education & Credentialing Committee Chair, 2008-2010
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