Dietary Supplements Database

The wonderful folks over at the National Library of Medicine have created a very useful database on dietary supplements. “The database is designed to help both the general public and health care providers find information about ingredients in brand-name products, including name, form, active and inactive ingredients, amount of active ingredient/unit, manufacturer/distributor information, suggested dose, [...]

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Social Networking and patients

Medical libraries are failing!!! Start-up companies are using 2.0 technologies instead of us. A plethora of social networking sites are coming online to help link patients to support, doctors, and making it easier to make appoints.
RateMDs.com Is similar to Ratemyprofessor.com. It allows patients to anonymously rate their doctors. How are your doctors fairing? [...]

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Health-E Illinois

I had the pleasure of assisting and co-managing a project by the NLM. Its purpose was to create a single place for consumers to find health facilites by state (Illinois for me). I am very proud of the indexing we have done and happy to report that we have over 9,000 records.

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2.0 and Medical Librarians

I was deeply saddened when I read the results of a survey conducted by the MLA. In essence, medical librarians are horrible at adopting 2.0 technologies. These technologies can improve the lives of our patients, students, and users.

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