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Tuesday, October 21
3:15pm - 4:45pm
Technology Speaker: James J. Cimino, MD
Chief, Laboratory for Informatics Development, NIH Clinical Center
Senior Scientist, Lister Hill Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine
Sponsored through a funding award from the NN/LM Southeastern/Atlantic Region
The Librarian Infobutton Tailoring Environment
Infobuttons are context-specific links from clinical information systems to on-line information resources that attempt to anticipate clinicians' information needs (based on context) and provide specific links to specific resources that address those needs. There is a great deal of variability, across institutions, with respect to the clinicians, the systems they work with, the information needs they typically have, and the resources to which they have access. No one know these parameters better than the users' institutional librarians. They are the ideal people to customize infobuttons for their own users, but tailoring the infobutton system is complex. We, with guidance from a community of institutional librarians, are currently building a tool called the Librarian Infobutton Tailoring Environment (LITE) that will be used by librarians to make infobuttons work for their users. My presentation will describe infobuttons, the research issues that have shaped them, the experience with them thus far for real clinical users and real systems, and the LITE project, with an invitation to get involved and become one of the early users of the system. |
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