Computers, the Internet and Medical Practice
http://www.hawaii.edu/sphlib/internet/dermatology.htm

Hot Spots Lanai 2000
Virginia (Ginny) Tanji, MSLS AHIP
August 17-20, 2000

Medical Informatics Overview  

Evidence-based Medicine

• ACOP Journal Club (American College of Physicians) http://www.acponline.org/journals/acpjc/jcmenu.htm
• Bandolier http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/ A print and Internet journal from U.K.
• Centres of Health Evidence http://www.cche.net/principles/content_all.asp Users guides to evidence-based practice based on JAMA series
• Cochrane Database Available by subscription only (members only via Hawaii Medical Library)
• POEMS http://www.infopoems.com/
  • An Introduction to Information Mastery, MSU http://www.poems.msu.edu/InfoMastery/
  • Article about POEMS from BMJ
• National Guideline Clearinghouse http://www.guideline.gov/index.asp
• Knowledge Couplers "OPENING THE BLACKBOX OF CLINICAL JUDGEMENT" Lawrence Weed, article from BMJ

Full-text Database

• MDConsult http://www.mdconsult.com/ Fee-based service; electronic textbooks and full-text journals

Databases, General

• Medline via PUBMED  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/  free access to the MEDLINE database provided by the National Library of Medicine
• OVID Medline via Hawaii Medical Library, members only access  http://hml.org/ez/hmlaccess.html
• Internet Grateful Med  http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/  free access to menu driven searching of  AIDSLINE, MEDLINE, etc.
• MedlinePlus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

Databases, Specialized

• ClinicalTrials.gov http://clinicaltrials.gov/
• National Guideline Clearinghouse http://www.guideline.gov/index.asp
• Drug Information
  • Medscape DrugInfo http://www.medscape.com/druginfo
  • RxList; Internet Drug Index http://www.rxlist.com/
  • HerbMed® http://www.amfoundation.org/herbmed.htm
  • PDR® for Herbal Medicines http://www.pdr.net/memag/static.htm?path=controlled/searchpdrherbal.htm; Free but must register

• CliniWeb http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/ Oregon Health Sciences University
• Healthweb http://healthweb.org/index.cfm Collaborative Project of Medical Libraries in the Midwest
• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Resources Directory of metasites arranged by subject  http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/
• Medical Matrix  Ranked, annotated, peer-reviewed clinical medicine resources. Free but registration required.  http://www.medmatrix.org/index.asp
• Medscape   http://www.medscape.com/  Free but registration required.
• WebMD http://my.webmd.com/
• Centers for Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/
• HiPHIVE (Hawaii Public Health Information Virtual Emporium)  http://hml.org/hiphive/

Disease Oriented Metasites

• AIDS
  • AEGIS (AIDS Education Global Information System) a comprehensive updated site   http://www.aegis.com/
  • HIV InSite Gateway from University of California at San Francisco. Comprehensive peer-reviewed site   http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/
• Cancer
  • Oncolink http://oncolink.upenn.edu/ Excellent information from the University of Pennsylvania for health professionals and patients
  • CancerNet http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/
• See links via HiPHIVE webpage "Diseases and Epidemiology" http://hml.org/hiphive/epi.html

Dermatology

• Associations
  • American Academy of Dermatology http://www.aad.org/
    
• Textbooks and Atlases
  • Electronic Textbook of Dermatology http://www.telemedicine.org/stamford.htm From The Internet Dermatology Society
  • EMedicine: Dermatology http://www.emedicine.com/derm/index.shtml
  • Loyola University Dermatology Medical Education Website http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/medicine/dermatology/title.htm
    • Dermatology Atlas
    • Skin Cancer and Benign Tumor Image Atlas
• Journals
• Dermatology Online Journal http://dermatology.cdlib.org/ peer-reviewed from UC Davis

Journals

• WebMedLit from SilverPlatter http://webmedlit.silverplatter.com/index.html
• Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals  http://www.med.monash.edu.au/shcnlib/dehsj/   Note:  there is a link for free full-text electronic journals
• HiWire Press  http://highwire.stanford.edu/  Some free fulltext journals available from Stanford University Libraries

Consumer Health Sites

• MedlinePlus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
• drkoop.com http://www.drkoop.com/
• WebMD http://my.webmd.com/

• Navigating the Web: Using Search Tools and Evaluating Resources  from the University of Washington, Health Sciences Library, Janet G. Schnall, MS, AHIP and Emily Hull, MLS.  An excellent tutorial. http://www.hslib.washington.edu/help/navigating/
• Bare Bones 101 - a tutorial created by Ellen Chamberlain, Head Librarian at the University of South Carolina Beaufort campus http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html
• MEDLINE Tutorials  These are links from the National Library of Medicine   http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/nnlm/online/pubmed/

Evaluating Sites

• Health on the Net Foundation (HON) http://www.hon.ch/
• The Megasite Project: A Metasite Comparing Health Information Megasites & Search Engines from University of Michigan. http://www.lib.umich.edu/megasite/toc.html

Subject Guides

• Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/ Best for a known item such as an organization's name; enclose in quotes when searching
• About.com http://about.com/  Human guides select, organize and annotate sources.
• Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org/ Annotated list

Search Engines

• AltaVista  http://www.altavista.com
• FAST Search  http://www.alltheweb.com/
• Google  http://www.google.com/
• Google Uncle Sam search US government pages  http://www.google.com/unclesam
• HotBot   http://www.hotbot.com/
• Northern Light   http://www.northernlight.com/
• News-DejaNews Res Service- searches indexed, archived USENET news  http://www.deja.com/usenet
• SearchGov.com  http://www.searchgov.com/  new search engine, government sites only

• Inquick http://www.ixquick.com/
• Search.com http://www.search.com/
• Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/
• Go2net.com (Metacrawler)  http://www.go2net.com/search.html

Miscellaneous Sites

• E-commerce, comparison shopping gomez.com http://gomez.com/index.cfm
• LibrarySpot http://www.libraryspot.com/

JABSOM Library Resource Center, John A. Burns School of Medicine,, University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Modified 8/16/00
Please send your comments, questions to:
Virginia Tanji, Librarian tanji@hawaii.edu