From the AVI
Newsletter Editor
The 14th annual North American Veterinary
Conference was held January 11 - 15, 1997 in Orlando, Florida. Almost 11,500
registrants participated in the event. Veterinary informatics applications
were a relatively small but highly visible (at least to me!) contingent
of the 243 exhibitors on the exhibit floor, and are the focus of this issues'
feature article.
The Veterinary Information Network (VIN) and Network of Animal Health (NOAH)
booths were strategically located at the entrance of the main exhibit area.
Both stations provided ample opportunity for NAVC participants to explore
online information resources. Hospital information/practice management systems
were abundant. The focus of these systems was on small business management
rather than capturing medical aspects of the patient encounter.
We are unlikely to see any significant adoption of the "electronic
medical record" in veterinary practice until the mechanics of capturing
this information become trivial. One interesting step in this direction
was ImproMed's hand-held bar code scanner being marketed to food animal
practitioners who need to capture client/patient information and services
on site. This technology could be easily incorporated into hospital-based
sysems.
Finally, students from St. Petersburg Junior College provided information
on the college's distance learning program leading to an Associate in Science
degree in Veterinary Technology. Two- and four-year colleges around the
country are getting serious about computer-based distance learning programs,
which is viewed as a "survival strategy" in the not too distant
future.
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| Paul Pion has fun surfing VIN's site. | Jim Brewer has just as much fun on NOAH. | Craig Burnett holding ImproMed's bar code scanner. |
http://netvet.wustl.edu/avi.htm
CD-ROM's for
Learning Technology Delivery
From: Marco Coronado <MARCOA@AOL.COM>
I am a private practicioner in CNY I think multimedia and audiovisuals could
be of great importance for everybody. We at our clinic are working on the
possibility of producing client education videotapes or CDROMS. Please send
me info about your products and services that involve multimedia.
Marco A. Coronado DVM
1812 Rt 20 W
Cazenovia NY 13035
315 655 8070
315 655 4961 FAX
MarcoA@AOL.COM
Computer-Based Learning
Tools for Veterinary Educators
From: Fred Smith <SMITH.F@CALC.VET.UGA.EDU>
Every year for the last eight years we have had
a computer-based learning workshop in the Spring here at the UGA College
of Veterinary Medicine. In the early years the focus was on the videodisc
as a tool. In the last couple of years the focus has been on the World Wide
Web.
This May we will host the ninth such workshop. Please drop by our departmental
home page (listed above) and click on the top menu item to look over the
agenda and registration details. I will be happy to answer any questions
you have and I would appreciate it if you would pass this on to anyone you
think might be interested.
Thanks,
Fred
Ronald D. Smith
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2001 South Lincoln Ave.
Urbana, IL 61802
<rd-smith@uiuc.edu>
The July-August,
1996 issue of the AVI Newsletter included an abstract
of a paper which I presented at the Second Annual Richard B. Talbot Informatics
Symposium, 133rd Annual Meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association,
in Louisville, KY. The paper, "Veterinary Informatics - The Best Kept
Secret" reviewed informatics activity in the veterinary literature
over the past 30 years. A total of 611 articles were retrieved representing
the contributions of 1338 authors published in 153 journals.
To facilitate data analysis I assigned articles to one or more of the following
sub-specialties (numbers in parentheses indicate how many articles fell
into each category in decreasing frequency):
An additional general category, hardware
and programming (434), was also included. This category doesn't shed
light on computer applications in veterinary medicine, but it does indicate
the extent to which different types of informatics tools are used.
Some sub-specialties appeared to be very active, whereas others, such as
hospital information/practice management systems, appeared to be relatively
inactive. Since this study reflected literature reports only, I thought
it might be useful to conduct a similar survey of veterinary informatics
activity in the commercial sector.
In order to accomplish this I systematically visited every one of the 243
exhibitors listed in the program of the 14th annual North American Veterinary
Conference held in Orlando, Florida January 11-15, 1997. At each exhibit
station I interrogated the exhibitors to learn whether computers were being
used as an integral part of the service or product being marketed. If so
I tried to assign the service or product to one or more of the above veterinary
informatics sub-specialties.
Twenty-one exhibitors (4.8% of the total) offered services or products that
relied upon computer technology. The number of exhibitors whos product(s)
fell each veterinary informatics sub-specialty, in decreasing frequency,
follows:
As one might expect at a practitioner-oriented
meeting, more than 40% of informatics-related exhibitors offered hospital
information/practice management systems. Other practice-related sub-specialties
represented on the exhibit floor were radiology/imaging, decision support,
and patient monitoring. It was interesting to note that information/bibliographic
retrieval was the second most frequent sub-specialty represented, followed
closely by computer-assisted educational programs.
In summary, most commercial applications of computers in veterinary medicine
appeared to fall into one of three broad categories: practice management,
education, and signal processing. Computer-based applications for information/bibliographic
retrieval, radiology/imaging, and education are prominent in both the published
veterinary literature and in the commercial sector. On the other hand, if
one wants to learn about hospital information/practice management systems,
it is better to spend time on the exhibit floor than in the lilbrary. Although
computer databases are important resources for clinical and epidemiologic
studies, comprehensive medical records systems are not a significant component
of commercially-available hospital information systems.
HACCP Manager
From: icon@ne.com.au (Icon Software)
Good News!
The demo version of HACCP Manager is now available to download at our web
site
Please feel free to download and examine our demo.
An order form can also be found at the site. To prepare the demo, place
the file hacpdemo.exe in the directory of your choice and run it. The file
will unzip all of the program files in that directory. Then run setup.exe
to install the demo and create program icons.
Scott Popovic B.Com
Richard Noggler B.Sc
STUDVET for
Windows 95
From: Michael Shaw <mshaw@GIL.COM.AU>
Just to let you know the Windows 95 version of STUDVET, the program for
the management of equine stud operations, has been released in demonstration
form. The program is a substantial upgrade on the Dos version previously
seen
You can download a copy from...
Hope you like it, comments always welcome.
Michael.
Michael Shaw B.V.Sc.
mshaw@gil.com.au
Karalee Karana Veterinary Surgery
304 Mt. Crosby Road Chuwar
Queensland
Australia 4306
Ph: +61 7 32827888 Fax: +61 32827899
Pig Disease
Information Centre
The Pig Disease Information Centre has
launched the first web-site, making up to date information relating to many
aspects of pig diseases and breeding available 24 hours a day, seven days
a week. Information cannot only be viewed, but also printed out. There is
a vast pool of knowledge and experience now at the fingertips of vets and
pig specialists around the world. The website will grow constantly and draw
contributors from around the world.
Information is available on:
-Diseases information
-Breeding, genetics and infertility
-News items, both UK and International
-Search facilities-a database of Internet information resources on pigs
-An up to date list of relevant books, videos and magazines
-Background information about PDIC people and services.
-Pig welfare
-Discussion page for vets
This web-site is also an excellent "jumping off" point to pig
and veterinary information Internet sites around the world. Simply click
on any description of more than 100 selected and categorised sites and you
will be connected to them in an instant.
The URL (Internet address) of this site is: http://www-pdic.vet.cam.ac.uk/
--For further information about this web-site please contact Dr. Michael
Meredith.
U.K. fax: 01223 330886; international fax: +44 1
e-mail: <mjm10@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
INNO-VET (C.A.)
on the Internet-World Small Animal Veterinary Association
World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) <http://wsava.org/inno-vetca>
Consumer forum for the companion animal veterinary practitioner
**new products,new services and innovations
**therapeutic evaluations
**diagnostic evaluations
**equipment evaluations
**consumer questions and comments
Dr.Ray Markus
E-mail: raym@wsava.org
Weekly Epidemiological
Record
The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) serves
as an essential instrument for the rapid and accurate dissemination of epidemiological
information on cases and outbreaks of diseases under the International Health
Regulations, other communicable diseases of public health importance, including
the newly emerging or re-emerging infections, non-communicable diseases
and other health problems. The WER is distributed every Friday in a bilingual
English/French edition. The electronic edition is free of charge. For information
on subscription to the printed edition, click here <wer@who.ch> or
use the mail address: World Health Organization, Distribution and Sales,
20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Fax: (+4122) 791 48 57
An E.Mail subscription service exists, which provides by electronic mail
each week the table of contents of the WER, together with a short epidemiological
bulletin. To subscribe, send a message to majordomo@who.ch. The subject field should be left blank and the body of
the message should contain only the line subscribe wer-reh
Issues of the WER are in AdobeTM AcrobatTM portable document format (.pdf).
To view the WER, the programme AcrobatTM Reader is required.
EuroSurveillance
- European Communicable Disease Bulletin
EuroSurveillance is a European bulletin on communicable
disease, coordinated by CESES (Saint-Maurice) and PHLS CDSC (London). You
can consult or print each article or download the whole bulletin (pdf).
Full text available in French, English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
ISSN: 1025 - 496X
The electronic version of this bulletin is prepared by frsceses@b3e.jussieu.fr and ddceses@b3e.jussieu.fr.
Web66 - Web
use in the Classroom
From: "Stephen E. Collins" <Web66@web66.coled.umn.edu>
Web66 on Listserv@tc.umn.edu
Web Use in the Classroom
After a year-long absence, the Web66 Mailing List has been revived! The
Web66 mailing list is for discussion of web use in the classroom, primarily
focused on schools that are implementing and supporting their own web sites.
To subscribe to Web66 send E-mail to Listserv@tc.umn.edu with the BODY of the mail containing the command
SUB WEB66 yourfirstname yourlastname
For Example: sub web66 Horace Mann
Owner: Stephen E. Collins Web66@web66.coled.umn.edu
--- Additional Information ---
Web66 Collaborative Community http://Web66.umn.edu/Community/
Join the Web66 Collaborative Community! The Web66 Collaborative community
helps to link students, teachers, and schools for communication and collaboration
over the Internet.
Web66 International Registery of School Web Sites http://web66.umn.edu/
Web66 features the Internet's oldest and most comprehensive list of School
Web Sites. The Web66 Registry now lists over 5,500 schools from over 50
different countries.
You are invited to register your school if you aren't already included in
the Web66 Registry:
Visit the Web66 home page for more info: http://Web66.umn.edu/
AHEAD Web Page Inaugurated
From: Dorothy Preslar <dpreslar@fas.org>
The web page of AHEAD (Animal Health/Emerging Animal Diseases) component
of the FAS ProMED project is inaugurated with the first Internet publication
of the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre Newsletter, Winter 1996
issue.
Many thanks to Dr. Ted Leighton and Jacqui Brown of the CCWHC.
The page remains under construction. Contributions are solicited.
The URL is: http://www.fas.org/ahead/
Or you may also access it through the ProMED page at: http://www.fas.org/promed/
Dorothy B. Preslar; Washington ProMED Officer; AHEAD Program Officer; Federation
of American Scientists
Voice: 202-675-1011; Fax: 675-1010
http://www.fas.org/promed/
http://www.fas.org/ahead/
<dpreslar@fas.org>
CONSULTANT -
Veterinary Diagnostic System on the Web
From: Dr. Maurice White <mew6@cornell.edu>
Cornell is proud to announce the availability of it's web-based diagnostic
support program that allows users to search for diagnoses based on one or
more signs. The URL is...
Online Journal
- Computers and Biomedical Research
From: owner-newjour@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Computers and Biomedical Research <http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/co.htm>
This online version of the print journal of the same name is published by
Academic Press, Inc. through a program titled IDEAL (International Digital
Electronic Access Library). Computers and Biomedical Research provides researchers
with up-to-date information concerning the use of computers in biomedicine.
Research Areas Include:
Some articles appearing in the August 1996 issue of the Journal include:
Geometric Properties of the Fractured Tibia Stabilized by Unreamed Interlocking
Nail: Development of a Three-Dimensional Finite Element Model', 'A Computer
Method to Model the Dose Distribution of High Energy Photon Grid Therapy
in Three Dimensions', and 'Probabilistic Rule Induction from a Medical Research
Study Database'.
Subscription to this electronic journal involves licensing agreements with
academic and industrial networks or consortia of libraries and can not be
done on a personal or even title by title basis. However, the table of contents
and article abstracts for each issue are available online free-of-charge.
Articles are provided to members of subscriber institutions in Adobe Acrobat
Portable Document Format.
ISSN 0010-4809
Editor: T. Allan Pryor
Email: apsubs@acad.com
Online Journal - Computer
Speech & Language
From: owner-newjour@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Computer Speech & Language <http://www.hbuk.co.uk/ap/journals/la.htm>
This online version of the print journal of the same name is published by
Academic Press, Inc. through a program titled IDEAL (International Digital
Electronic Access Library). Computer Speech & Language publishes papers
of original research related to quantitative descriptions of the recognition,
understanding, production, and coding of speech by humans and/or machines.
The speech sciences have a long history, but it is only relatively recently
that experimentation with complex models of speech processes has become
feasible. At present such research is carried out somewhat separately by
practitioners of artificial intelligence, computer science, electronic engineering,
linguistics, phonetics, and psychology.
The journal provides a focus for this work, and encourages an interdisciplinary
approach to problems in the speech sciences. Thus contributions from all
of the related disciplines are welcomed in the form of reports of theoretical
or experimental studies, tutorials, and brief correspondence pertaining
to models of speech communication and their implementation, or reports of
fundamental research leading to the improvement of such models.
Research Areas Include:
Some articles appearing in the October 1996 issue
of the Journal include: 'Modelling of the interframe dependence in an HMM
using conditional Gaussian mixtures', 'Mean and variance adaptation within
the MLLR framework', and 'Stochastic automata for language modeling'.
Subscription to this electronic journal involves licensing agreements with
academic and industrial networks or consortia of libraries and can not be
done on a personal or even title by title basis. However, the table of contents
and article abstracts for each issue are available online free-of-charge.
Articles are provided to members of subscriber institutions in Adobe Acrobat
Portable Document Format.
ISSN 0885-2308
Editors: S.E. Levinson and S. Young
Email: apsubs@acad.com
USDA Proposes
to Accept Digital Signatures
From: Questa Glenn <qglenn@aphis.usda.gov>
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 1997--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to accept electronic digital
signatures from accredited veterinarians as an additional option for official
certificates, forms, records, and reports.
"We believe that accepting digital signatures may benefit accredited
veterinarians and the industries they serve by saving time and money,"
said Joan M. Arnoldi, deputy administrator of veterinary services with APHIS,
a part of USDA's marketing and regulatory programs mission area.
Accredited veterinarians are approved by APHIS to perform certain regulatory
tasks to control and prevent the spread of animal diseases in the United
States and internationally. These tasks include preparing and submitting
official documents to APHIS. Currently, APHIS requires a handwritten signature.
"Allowing accredited veterinarians the option to sign and transmit
documents electronically will provide them with more flexibility and allow
them to choose the method that is most efficient for them," Arnoldi
said.
Notice of this action was published in the Jan. 6 Federal Register.
Consideration will be given to comments received on or before March 6. An
original and three copies of comments should be sent to Docket No. 96-075-1,
Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Suite 3C03, 4700 River
Road Unit 118, Riverdale, Md. 20737-1238.
Comments may be reviewed at USDA, Room 1141, South Building, 14th Street
and Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C., between 8 a.m. and 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. Persons wishing to review
comments are requested to call ahead at (202) 690-2817 to facilitate entry
into the comment reading room.
NOTE: USDA news releases, program announcements, and media advisories are
available on the Internet. Access the APHIS Home Page by pointing your Web
browser to: http://www.aphis.usda.gov
and clicking on "APHIS Press Releases." Also, anyone with an e-mail
address can sign up to receive APHIS press releases automatically. Send
an e-mail message to: majordomo@info.aphis.usda.gov
and leave the subject blank. In the message, type subscribe press_releases
Job Opportunity
- Director of Learning Resources Center, Ross Univ. CVM
From: "Livija I Carlson (Livija Carlson)"
<l-carl@MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU>
Is anyone interested, or knows someone qualified and interested, in a wonderful
job opportunity in the balmy West Indies.
The position is the Director of the Learning Resources Center, School of
Veterinary Medicine, Ross University, on the island of St. Kitts.This is
an excellent opportunity to work with the faculty in developing the newly
built LRC to fit the needs of the School of Veterinary Medicine.
The LRC is in the early stages of development. Currently there are 18 pentium
computers connected to a Compaq file server via Windows NT network. Ross
University has established a computer development center for the purpose
of creating educational software for the LRC. In addition, the university
is actively acquiring educational software from both academic and commercial
sources. A campus wide Internet connection is projected to be installed
in 1997.
The School of Veterinary Medicine consists mainly of students from the United
States. The faculty come from all parts of the world, some of them are visiting
faculty from major U.S. schools. For the clinical part of the curriculum,
Ross students come to the U.S. schools in their senior year.
To apply, or for more information, contact:
Warren Ross; School of Veterinary Medicine; Ross University; 460 West 34th
St; New York NY 10001; phone:212-279-5500 ext. 140
See the informatics section of NetVet for a more complete and current list of informatics-related activities at <http://netvet.wustl.edu/info.htm>
April 20 - May 2, 1997
First International
Virtual Conference on Infectious Diseases of Animals
(See the November-December, 1996 AVI Newsletter for details)
April 23-25, 1997
1997 Computers
in Healthcare Education Symposium; Philadelphia, PA
(See the July-August, 1996 AVI Newsletter for details)
May 28-31, 1997
1997 AMIA Spring
Congress; Fairmong Hotel; San Jose, CA
The conference theme for the 1997 AMIA Spring Congress is "Information
Technology in Community Health". For more information, visit AMIA's
Web site, http://www.amia.org, send e-mail to mail@mail.amia.org, or call the AMIA office at 301-657-1291.
Visit the Call for Participation directly: http://www.amia.org/s97.html
June 16-20 and August 18-22, 1997
Stanford Medical
Informatics Short Course
The Stanford Medical Informatics Short Course will be June 16-20, 1997 and
again from August 18-22, 1997 and will be taught on the Stanford Campus.
The Stanford Section on Medical Informatics offers a one-week introductory
course on Medical Informatics. The course includes lectures, computer labs,
and research project descriptions/demos. One day concentrates on decision-support:
starting with three hours of lectures by Ted Shortliffe, followed by lab
exercises with QMR and Iliad, and then presentations of SMI research on
decision-support.
The course is described in more detail on the web at:
Or you can obtain a copy of the brochure by sending
email to:
and put:
send course
in the subject field of the message.
Here's a short summary of the course:
COURSE ORGANIZATION
Each day will be devoted to a specific topic in medical informatics. Lectures
will take place from 8:30-12:00 (3 one-hour lectures). The afternoons are
divided into two events: 1) hands-on computer laboratory sessions on topics
covered in the morning lectures, and 2) project presentations and demonstrations
of medical informatics research at Stanford.
LECTURE TITLES
> Introduction to Medical Informatics
> Internet, Networking and Distributed Computing
> Clinical Data and Patient Record Systems
> Wide-Area Networking and Telemedicine
> Medical Imaging Systems
> Computers in Education
> Decision Making (3 lecture series)
> Bibliographic Retrieval
> Electronic Publishing
> Clinical Vocabularies
> Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
> Molecular Biology on the Internet
> Computer Security and Java
LAB EXERCISES
> World Wide Web
> Electronic Medical Record
> Computer-Aided Instruction
> Decision Support
> Bibliographic Retrieval
For more information, call (415)723-6979, or send
email to short-course@smi.stanford.edu
--- Larry Fagan <fagan@smi.stanford.edu>,
---Course organizer
August 23-29, 1997
15th International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence; Nagoya, Japan
For up-to-date workshop information please check:
September 4-6, 1997
GEOMED '97;
Rostock, Germany
From: Mathias Bull <mathias.bull@MEDIZIN.UNI-ROSTOCK.DE>
International Workshop on Geomedical Systems - Foundations, Systems, and
Applications -
Rostock, Germany, September 4-6, 1997
Motivation
==========
During the recent years many national and international (EU) projects on
geomedical systems have been established. These projects mostly include
the different views of geographers, epidemiologists and computer scientists
and to some extent the requirements of the potential users. We consider
that a workshop presenting these different views and the possible achievements
of geomedical systems in the future is highly desirable. The slides offered
by the CDC in the INTERNET illustrate the dramatic situation of emerging
and re-emerging infectious diseases, health risks and resistant pathogens.
The ProMED-Proposal (Global Program to Monitor Emerging Diseases), which
was circulated for commentation last year to more than 300 experts around
the world, specifies the needs and the technical demands of public health
surveillance systems. These examples highlight the need of information regarding
the spread of diseases, outbreaks, epidemics and distribution patterns by
means of geography, time and age- or riskgroups. Monitoring systems providing
those information valuable for pharmacists, the pharmaceutical industry,
physicians, public health care providers, etc. can be valuable tools for
any reaction and control mechanism. The current national and international
information systems monitoring human and animal infectious diseases have
to be improved in order to elicit the present and future challenges.
Aim
=======
GEOMED '97 offers a forum for presentation and discussion of new directions
and interesting work in progress in the field of geomedical systems and
closely related domains such as epidemiological models. The workshop will
attempt to bring together researchers on theoretical foundations of epidemiology
as well as on practical requirements and experiences from the development
of geomedical applications. The workshop will be organized as a combination
of invited talks, paper presentations, poster sessions and panel discussions.
For further information contact Professor Bull at the e-mail address above.
September 10-14, 1997
Veterinary
Informatics at the 5th World Equine Veterinary Association; Padova, Italy
(See the July-August, 1996 AVI Newsletter for details)
Training in
Medical Informatics at Oregon Health Sci Univ
From: William Hersh <hersh@ohsu.edu>
Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) is seeking qualified applicants
for its training programs in medical informatics. OHSU offers two programs:
a postdoctoral fellowship for those who hold doctoral degrees (M.D., Ph.D.,
or others) and a master of science degree for individuals at any post-bacclaureate
level.
The postdoctoral fellowship is a full-time program with funding options
from both the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Veterans Administration.
Individuals spend 2-3 years pursuing an individualized plan of study that
culminates in a research project. Fellows can optionally enroll in the master
of science of program as well as take courses from other Portland-area institutions,
such as Portland State University and Oregon Graduate Institute.
The fellowship program pays a stipend and covers a portion of tuition costs
for coursework. Individuals are provided a workspace and computer with a
connection to the campus network. Those with a clinical background are allowed
to pursue clinical practice on a part-time basis. A Web page providing more
details about the fellowship program is available at:
The master of science program is offered through
the OHSU School of Medicine. The goal of the program is to train individuals
to find employment in the development and management of health information
systems. Individuals can pursue the program on a full-time or part-time
basis. The required coursework spans four areas -- medical informatics,
health and medicine, computer science, and quantitative methods -- and culminates
in a masters thesis. Students can also obtain practical experience in hospital
and industry settings. A full-time student can complete the program in 4-5
quarters.
A World Wide Web page describes admission requirements, the curriculum,
and other details of the masters degree program at:
An application form for the program in PDF format
is available from this Web page (though electronic submissions are not yet
allowed).
OHSU is a leading center of medical informatics. It is one of the largest
recipients nationally of funding from the NLM, the main funder of medical
informatics research in the United States. Its Division of Health Informatics
contains 12 core faculty, along with affiliates from prominent local HMOs
and medical software vendors. Faculty interests include:
- The electronic medical record
- Information retrieval
- Clinician information needs
- Consumer health informatics
- Medical decision making
- Telemedicine
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Clinical epidemiology
- Outcomes research
For more information on the postdoctoral fellowship
program, contact:
Kent Spackman, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Division of Health Informatics
Oregon Health Sciences University
3181 W Sam Jackson Park Rd.
Portland, OR 97201
email: spackman@ohsu.edu
voice: 503-494-4502
For more information on the master of science program, contact:
William Hersh, M.D.
Director, Master of Science in Medical Informatics Program
Oregon Health Sciences University
3181 W Sam Jackson Park Rd.
Portland, OR 97201
email: hersh@ohsu.edu
voice: 503-494-4563
A History of Medical Informatics in the United States: 1950 to 1990. Collen,
Morris Frank. American Medical Informatics Association; 4915 St. Elmo Avenue,
Suite 401; Bethesda, MD 20814. $35.00 AMIA members; $40.00 non-members.
Ph 301/657-1291; FAX 301/657-1296; e-mail mail@amia2.amia.org
Better Than
Average
From: Edupage, 17 December 1996
U.S. News & World Report says that one poll of university professors
found that 94% of the respondents thought that they were better at their
jobs than their average colleague. (U.S. News & World Report 16 Dec
96 p26)