AVMA/AVI Talbot
Informatics Symposium
From: Chuck Cohen <CACohen@compuserve.com>
I hope all enjoy the activities and hope that each and every one of us can
bring a few friends along to make it a grand day. On Tuesday July 22nd the
AVI will have it's working group gatherings and luncheon. We cordially invite
any interested parties to attend and would welcome membership by all.
Amercian Veterinary Medical Association with the Association for Veterinary
Informatics
Monday July 21, 1997 -- Reno, Nevada
B-13 Reno Convention Center
Presiding: Dr. Charles A. Cohen
8:30 -- Welcome: Dr. Harmon A. Rogers
President of AVI, AVMA District XI Board member, & AAHA Medical Records
Chair
8:40 -- Introduction: Dr. Charles A. Cohen
Chairperson AVI Education Committee & Director of IS, New Haven Central
Hospital for Veterinary Medicine, Inc.
8:50 -- Information Interchange and the Patient Oriented Medical Record
Dr. Roger K. Johnson, Encina, CA (practitioner) & Ken Oman (Idexx Laboratories,
formerly AVS, Inc.)
10:00 -- Break
10:15 -- Corporate Veterinary Software: The Overlooked Player
Dr. Hugh B. Lewis (MMI and VetSmart; formerly dean, College of Veterinary
Medicine, Purdue U.)
10:50 -- Camoflage Computers - Global Automation in the Veterinary Service
Dr. Gary Stamp (Col, USA & founding member of the Veterinary Emergency
Critical Care Society) with Drs. Stephanie J. Sherman and Jarret N. Schmit.
11:30 -- Panel of Speakers
11:45 -- Lunch Break
1:00 -- The Algorithms of Veterinary Medicine
Dr. Stephen J. Ettinger (Co-author with Dr. Ed Feldman) of the textbooks
of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 4th edition. The 200 or so VISIO designed
algorithms represent decison-based thinking as it evolves in our profession.
2:00 -- Electronic Publishing: Significant Benefits for Practitioners
Dr. Francis X. Buckingham (Veterinary Software Publishing)
2:30 -- Break
2:45 -- Practical & Flexible Electronic Medical Records Using Templates
& Voice Recognition
Dr. Michael F. Philbrick (Animal Intelligence Software Co.)
3:30 -- Internet and World Wide Web Resources
Dr. Jeffrey R. Wilcke (Director of Informatics, Virginia Polytechnical U.,
VA-MD College of Veterinary Medicine and participant in the AVMA's SNOMED
efforts)
4:00 -- The AVMA's Online Services Grow up: Where We've Been, Where We're
Going, and How We're Going to Get There
Karl Wise (Director, AVMA Center for Information Management) & the AVMA
Online Service Staff
4:30 -- Panel Discussion & Closing Comments
This Symposium is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Richard B. Talbot - forerunner
for veterinary computing.
AVI Communications
Working Meeting
From: "Ken Boschert, DVM" <KEN@WUDCM.WUSTL.EDU>
If any of you are interested in participating in the Communications Working
Group of the AVI, get in touch with me directly.
AVI CAI Interest
Group Meeting
The CAI special interest group of the Association for Veterinary Informatics
(AVI) will be meeting at the AVMA meeting
Tuesday, July 22, 1997
8 am to noon
Sands Regency Hotel
The purpose of this meeting is to discuss issues related to technologically
enhanced education in the DVM curriculum as well as in continuing education
programs. Topics will be determined by the participants and may include:
**demonstrations of programs in use in the DVM curriculum or for CE discussion
of tools used in program development how to get faculty involved in developing/using
computer enhanced programs in the curriculum
**assessment of the needs of the practicing Veterinarian with regard to
computer-delivered CE
other topics as determined by the participants
Last year I put together a web page for this group at:
Please let me know if you have a program to demonstrate,
an instructional program to list at this site or have information about
your self you want to share with the group.
Cheryl Dhein
Cheryl R Dhein DVM MS (CRD@vetmed.wsu.edu) College of Veterinary Medicine
Washington State University
Pullman, Wa 99164-6610
Telephone: 509-335-0711
How to Contact
AVI
Applications for membership, accompanied by a check for $35 payable to the
AVI, should be sent to:
Dr. James T. Case; Secretary Treasurer, AVI; 1590 Augusta Ct., Dixon, CA
95620
Phone: 916/752-4408; FAX: 916/752-5680; e-mail: JimCase@aol.com
Dr. Case is responsible for distribution of the hardcopy version of the
AVI Newsletter.
Newsletter items can be sent to:
Dr. Ronald D. Smith, Newsletter Editor, AVI; UI College of Veterinary Medicine;
2001 South Lincoln; Urbana, IL 61801.
Phone: 217/333-2449; FAX: 217/333-4628; e-mail: rd-smith@uiuc.edu
If you are an AVI member and would like to be on the AVI Newsletter electronic
distribution list, send an e-mail message to the Newsletter Editor. Although
the electronic version is only an ASCII (text) file, it's faster, searchable,
easier to store and retrieve, and environmentally friendly.
Current and past issues of the AVI Newsletter are also available on the
Web at the following URL:
http://netvet.wustl.edu/avi.htm.
CONSULTANT AS A WEB "HUB" AND TEACHING TOOL
Dr. Maurice E. White
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
<mew6@cornell.edu>
Editor's note: The Web version of Dr. Pete White's CONSULTANT computer assisted
diagnosis program recently became available and is freely accessible at...
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/consultant/consult.asp
I asked Dr. White to provide a few comments about the direction he sees CONSULTANT going, and he kindly responded with the following thoughts.
---------------------
Thanks for the nice comments on CONSULTANT. Writing
about it seems so tame compared to using it online, but I do have a couple
of messages that it might be useful to get out.
CONSULTANT is a diagnostic database with information on almost 7,000 diseases
of birds, cattle, dogs, horses, cats, goats, sheep, and pigs. The numbers
of diseases per species ranges from almost 1400 for the dog to just under
300 for birds. I am responsible for the content, and Mr. John Lewkowicz
of Cornell's computing center handles the computer side of things. It had
been used world-wide in a MUMPS version, but has now really taken off on
the Web. At the time this is being written we expect about 400,000 hits
over the course of the year. While it continues to be used by veterinarians,
it is also used extensively by animal owners. Readers of this message can
go to <http://www.vet.cornell.edu/consultant/consult.asp> to examine CONSULTANT for themselves, and there is
no need to describe it further here.
I believe the rise of CONSULTANT and similar systems will have wide-ranging
implications for the management of veterinary information. One possiblility
is that CONSULTANT could be the central index used to send veterinarians
and students to excellent disease-oriented Web sites, making CONSULTANT
the hub of a huge virtual textbook of expert knowledge from around the world.
This is happening now, as I have been citing Web sites as references. There
are hundreds of such citations in CONSULTANT; excellent examples include
Dr. Collins' site on Johne's at <http://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/pbs/johnes/> and Dr. Strain's site on deafness in dogs and cats
at <http://www.lsu.edu/guests/senate/public_html/deaf.htm>. If clinicians and scientists from around the world
would build similar sites for just a few of the diseases in which they each
have expertise and bring them to my attention to be linked, CONSULTANT will
be the index to an unprecedented world-wide virtual textbook of veterinary
medicine and differential diagnosis. This will be the model for textbooks
of the 21st century, and veterinary medicine can take the lead in this area.
I would urge that there be a world-wide effort by individuals to create
website disease-based 'chapters' for this virtual texbook. One concern of
those who might put the effort into building such sites has been that they
will be little used, they will be lost in the immensity of the Web. If you
build a site about a disease, inform me at <mew6@cornell.edu>, and if it is of high quality CONSULTANT will send
some of our thousands of users to you. If you build it they will come. Perhaps
you already have such a site that I have not linked; if so please let me
know.
Another development of interest is that CONSULTANT could the basis of e-mail
and Web teaching that could easily be sent nationwide with the right mailing
lists. Material at <http://web.vet.cornell.edu/public/education/white/> was sent to all Cornell students over the course of
a year, and about 3 dozen students used these messages as the basis of an
experiental 1-credit course, with a final that was 'open book' and 'open
web'. This was a first effort, which might be evident in the content at
the URL, but there is nothing to prevent versions of such material from
being sent to the world from any site. With links to the Web indexed through
CONSULTANT it would be amazing; students would have masses of knowledge
at their fingertips and would be learning from the Web and from experts
around the world in the way that will be routine for their careers in the
next century.
One concern I have heard since CONSULTANT began in the early 1980s is that
this will put information into the hands of non-veterinarians that could
lead to some harm. There is no doubt that they are getting the information;
through CONSULTANT I get about 1/2 dozen e-mails a day from as far away
as Pakistan asking for advice. Of course diagnosis by e-mail is ridiculous,
but I will sometimes send such individuals differential diagnoses for a
problem to impress on them the complexity of veterinary medicine and to
urge them to see a qualified veterinarian. Surely someone who receives a
list of 211 possible causes of seizures in dogs will recognize the need
for expert diagnosis and treatment of such a difficult problem.
I will close these notes by repeating the request I made above. Please build
excellent Web sites in your area of clinical expertise, index them by bringing
them to my attention for linkage through CONSULTANT, and join in the revolution
in information management for the 21st century.
Maurice E. White DVM
Professor and Chair
Department of Clinical Sciences
Cornell Veterinary Medicine
PRODUCT AVAILABILITY/REVIEWS/COMPARISONS
Free - TopClass
Lite Educational Web Server Software
From: WBT Systems Newsletter - May 1997
Newsletter Editor <editor@wbtsystems.com>
TopClass Lite, our award winning server software for managing and delivering
education and training via the web, is available to individual users for
FREE.
What do you get with TopClass Lite?
* A fully functional version of our software which never expires.
* The ability to create unlimited courses.
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You can download TopClass Lite from our web site: http://www.wbtsystems.com
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Software for
Teaching Over the Net
From: Edupage Editors <educom@elanor.oit.unc.edu>
A computer scientist at British Columbia has designed a set of software
tools called WebCT (for Web Course Tools) that allows instructors to design
online courses, create their own Web sites, hold interactive and bulletin-board-type
discussions, and administer exams, all on the Internet. Professors simply
enter their own material into pre-prepared forms, and the virtual classroom
takes shape. WebCT is already being used in more than 70 courses at the
University of British Columbia, and the program is available for testing
to faculty members outside the university. Once testing is completed, the
program's authors plan to charge a fee for its use. (Chronicle of Higher
Education 24 Jan 97 A23) <http://homebrew.cs.ubc.ca/webct/>
SCIENCE-NEWS
- A Weekly Digest of Science News
From: Prism Express <prismx@earthlink.net>
The mailing list SCIENCE-NEWS is a free weekly Email digest of science news
of significance to journalists, educators, the financial community, and
a general multi-national university educated audience. The weekly issues
of SCIENCE-NEWS are prepared by the staff of Prism Express.
To subscribe, send the following command in the BODY of mail to prismx@earthlink.net
SUB SCIENCE-NEWS
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OJVR - Online
Journal of Veterinary Research URL Change
From: jvet@mailbox.uq.edu.au
This is just to advise that our URL has changed from:
to: http://www.uq.edu.au/~zzjvet/jvet196a.htm
or http://www.cpb.uokhsc.edu/OJVR/jvet196a.htm
We encourage submissions on Veterinary Informatics including hard code for
diagnostics if anyone is interested!
Discussion Added
to "Cattlemen on the Hill" Web Site
From: sh@ncanet.org
Check-out the latest addition to the "Cattlemen on the Hill" web
site, "Herd on the Ranch"--an interactive, on-line discussion
group for the agriculture industry to discuss politics and policy issues.
http://www.beef.org/hill
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association
1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 300
Washington DC 20004-1701
(p)202-347-0228; (f)202-667-0237
"Cattlemen on the Hill" -- http://www.beef.org/hill
"CowTown America" -- http://www.cowtown.org
"Cattlemen on the Web" -- http://www.beef.org
DOGTALES(tm) is Now
TALK-ABOUTDOGS
From: Albert Buys <abuys@jersey.net>
Due to a trade mark the DOGTALES(tm) list has been changed to TALK-ABOUTDOGS
The TALK-ABOUTDOGS mailing list is for discussions and telling stories about
"my companion dog", stories about war dogs, working dogs, adopted/foster/orphan
dogs. A place to tell unusual stories about lost or found dogs and a place
where one can look for their lost/found dog when a natural calamity strikes.
Also a list where animal rescue centers can tell their stories about their
needs or request for help. Especially welcome are stories and poems when
your dog life's end and you need a place to share your feelings.
To subscribe, send the following command to:
subscribe talk-aboutdogs firstname lastname
For example: subscribe talk-aboutdogs John Doe
in the BODY of your e-mail to listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu .
Owner: Albert Buys abuys@voicenet.com
7000 Pathology Images
From: Jules Berman <jjberman@EROLS.COM>
Organization: Pathology Informatics, Inc. Subject
We have just added links to about 7,000 pathology images on our web site:
http://www.pathinfo.com/
This is also the site of the Lightning Hypertext of Disease search engine.
Jules Berman, Pres., Pathology Informatics, Inc.
WWW: Hardin
Meta Directory update - Medical Informatics
From: Eric Rumsey <eric-rumsey@UIOWA.EDU>
This is to announce an updated version of the Hardin Meta Directory web
page for Medical Informatics. All links have been checked to confirm connection
and new links have been added, including the following:
-Healthcare Information Systems Directory, Robert Dean
A *new and important feature* for Hardin MD is that we are now using a link
checker to check the connection rate for the lists that are included. Generally
the lists with better connection rates are toward the top of their size
category. Lists on the updated Hardin MD Medical Informatics page with especially
good connection rates include:
-MedWeb: Informatics
-Healthcare Information Systems Directory, Robert Dean
-Veterinary Informatics Home Page, Ken Boschert, Washington Univ
-Duke University - Healthcare Informatics Standards | HL7 Standards page
-Univ Washington - Informatics - IAIMS and Informatics Sites | HL7 on the
Internet
Of course, using our link checker, the links on our own pages have superlative
connection rates, generally above 98%.
The URL for the Hardin Meta Directory Medical Informatics page is
http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/md-inform.html
Please check it out !
If you would like to receive e-mail notices for all Hardin MD updates (1-2
messages per wk), please notify me.
Eric Rumsey <eric-rumsey@uiowa.edu>
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
University of Iowa
Iowa City IA 52242
319-335-9875 (voice), 319-335-9897 (fax)
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/md.html
Reviewed in Consumer Reports, Feb 1997, p 29
U.S. Government
Debuts Stats Web Site
Forwarded by: "Ken Boschert, DVM" <KEN@WUDCM.WUSTL.EDU>
If you need information about the U.S. government, you now can get it from
a Web site launched last week by a well-connected source: the White House.
The FedStats site (http://www.fedstats.gov) enables visitors to make keyword searches of statistics
from 70 agencies, including the Census Bureau.
Sally Katzen, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs department of the Office of Management and Budget, said the site
has no information on individuals. She was quoted in the Wall Street Journal
as saying that, with FedStats, "Today, a high-school student with a
modem in Boise, Idaho, has better access to federal statistics than federal
officials in Washington had five years ago."
Bacteria on
a Chip
From: Edupage Editors <educom@educom.unc.edu>
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using live bacteria, fixed
onto silicon chips, to test for traces of pollution that could linger following
a toxic waste clean-up effort. The engineers used a common microorganism
that had been genetically altered to emit a bluish glow in the presence
of naphthalene -- a component in jet fuels. The microbes are placed in a
porous polymer matrix on the surface of the chip, and when they start to
glow, the chip sounds an alarm. The scientists hope that eventually these
critters-on-a-chip could be deployed by the dozens at any polluted site.
Using a variety of microbes to detect different chemicals, the chips could
send back wireless progress reports for a fraction of the cost of the optical
fiber sensors and bulky electronic equipment used today.
(Business Week 12 May 97)
USDA Accepts
Digital Signatures
From: Questa Glenn <qglenn@aphis.usda.gov>
WASHINGTON, May 12, 1997--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service is accepting electronic digital signatures
from accredited veterinarians as an additional option for official certificates,
forms, records, and reports.
"The availability of digital signatures benefits 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. Until now, APHIS required a handwritten signature.
Notice of this action was published in the May 9 Federal Register and was
effective upon publication.
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
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
and leave the subject blank. In the message, type
subscribe press_releases
New Graduate
Requirement Calls for Web Page Creation
Starting with the year 2000, students at Kalamazoo College will be required
to create a portfolio of Web pages documenting their academic and extracurricular
activities. Called a "K Portfolio," the exercise is meant to improve
the academic advising process, by dividing activities into five categories:
lifelong learning, career readiness, social responsibility, intercultural
understanding and leadership. "We're changing the entire face of advising,
basically," says one of the project's coordinators. "The Web organizes
things by theme or topic. It encourages you to see how many little physical
blue links you can make between different things." (Chronicle of Higher
Education 23 May 97)
Stanford's Highwire
Press is High Flier in Online Pubs
From: Edupage Editors <educom@educom.unc.edu>
Stanford University's HighWire Press, based at the University's Cecil H.
Green Library, is breaking new ground in electronic publishing, focusing
on scientific journals by scholarly societies. HighWire's staff works with
journal editors to design their online versions, and inserts hyperlinks
to related material on the Web. Associations pay HighWire between $35,000
and $125,000 for online journal development, plus several thousand dollars
per month in maintenance costs. Since signing on as HighWire's first customer,
the Journal of Biological Chemistry has experienced a 15% increase in article
submissions: "One hypothesis is that because JBC has got this global
distribution, because the hyperlinking has been so terrific, because the
hypernavigation is so good, because you can blow up these images and get
really good pictures of gels that are really workable in a lab, more authors
are sending stuff the JBC," says HighWire's publisher. A secondary
benefit from the project is the fact that the online journals now are available
to new markets, such as Russia and India, where paper versions are difficult
to access. Other universities, including Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago and the University of
California at Berkeley, are involved in online journal projects, but Ann
Okerson, an associate university librarian at Yale University, says the
HighWire project is unique because of its close association with a university
library and its efforts to work with a number of publishers. (Chronicle
of Higher Education 16 May 97)
Computer Access
for Minority Students
From: Edupage Editors <educom@educom.unc.edu>
A report by the Educational Testing Service suggests that "there are
persistent patterns of inequity in student access to technology. The kids
with the most needs are getting the least access." Nationally, schools
average one computer for approximately every 10 students, but where minority
enrollment exceeds 90% the rate is approximately 1 to 17. (Washington Post
15 May 97)
Society for
the Internet in Medicine
From: Clive Baldock <c.baldock@QUT.EDU.AU>
Public membership of the Society for the Internet in Medicine is now available.
Members are eligible for a range of benefits, including reduced registration
fees for Society events including MEDNET 97 - The World Congress of the
Internet in Medicine, and a reduction in the subscription to the journal
"Medical Informatics". Full details may be found at the web site,
http://www.mednet.org.uk/mednet.
The provisional Scientific Programme for MEDNET 97 has been placed on the
MEDNET 97 site and early registration is now available.
If you wish to receive further information regarding MEDNET 97 and the Society
for the Internet in Medicine, please subscribe to the Society listserver,
if you have not already done so. You may to this by sending an e-mail message
containing the following two words to majordomo@umds.ac.uk:
subscribe sim
Alternatively e-mail info@mednet.org.uk
MEETINGS AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
See the informatics section of NetVet for a more complete and current list of informatics-related activities at <http://netvet.wustl.edu/info.htm>
June 16-20 and
August 18-22, 1997
Stanford Medical Informatics Short Course
(See the Jan-Feb, 1997 AVI Newsletter for details)
June 16 - August
9; July 14 - September 6; August 11 - October 3
Make the Link Workshop (World Wide Web for Everyone)
From: "Thomas P. Copley" <tcopley@GIGANTOR.ARLINGTON.COM>
The Make the Link Workshop (World Wide Web for Everyone) is an eight week
long distance learning workshop conducted entirely by HTML mail*. It introduces
the beginner to the World Wide Web (WWW), the Internet's distributed hypermedia
information system, and enhances the skills of the somewhat more experienced
user as well. The workshop has been newly updated to reflect the latest
information on HTML authoring tools, including NetObjects Fusion, Microsoft
Front Page and Netscape Navigator Gold. The workshop also includes guidance
on how to select an Internet service provider.
The WWW is a powerful hyper-textual medium for integrating all of the resources
of the Internet. You can read through a page of text, and on the spur of
the moment, link to related information anywhere in the world. For example,
after reading a short piece on twentieth century abstract art, you can link
to and view a collection of color prints of paintings by Picasso, Klee,
and Mondrian. High school history students reading about Sir Winston Churchill
can link to a page where, at the click of a mouse button, recordings of
his actual speeches can be played. A business woman in Paris, France can
check out the "home page" of her counterpart in Montreal, Canada,
complete with her picture and professional vita. There are thousands of
computers throughout the world on the Web, and literally millions of interconnected
WWW pages, and all are easily accessible from your desktop computer.
The first graphical WWW browsers became available in 1993. Since the introduction
of the hugely successful Netscape Navigator in 1994, WWW browsers have provided
access to most of the main Internet functions, including the WWW, FTP, gopher,
telnet, USENET news, e-mail, and real-time audio and video. The WWW, or
simply, "the Web" is the Internet's "killer application"
that integrates a variety of media, including text, images, sound, video
and small Java computer programs called applets. For example, a chemistry
student can view a three-dimensional picture of a molecule, and view it
from any direction or simply make it appear to slowly rotate in space on
the screen. New browser scripting languages, such as JavaScript, have been
developed for creating a myriad of interactive Web pages.
Having a WWW home page providing one's personal information has become the
1990's version of the business card, resume, voice mail, and on occasion,
electronic recreation area, all rolled into one. In fact, the WWW provides
an opportunity to participate and collaborate with others at many levels.
It can be a great way to network with colleagues and associates or even
to reach potential customers concerning products or services.
The Make the Link Workshop will focus on how to gain maximum advantage from
this simple to use, yet very sophisticated, Internet tool. During the Workshop,
you will learn:
* How to gain access to the WWW, including information on setting up a direct
TCP/IP connection to the Internet (SLIP/CSLIP/PPP).
* How to link to specific Web resources using Uniform Resource Locators
(URLs). This includes how to construct URLs for various kinds of resources,
such as WWW, gopher, FTP, telnet, etc.
* How to distinguish between various kinds of WWW browsers, including Netscape
Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Lynx, etc. and the strengths and
weaknesses of each.
* How to navigate Webspace and use various searching tools such as MetaCrawler,
SavvySearch, Alta Vista, Infoseek, HotBot, CMU Lycos, WebCrawler, and others.
* To make WWW bookmarks and organize your bookmarks with Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML).
* How to effectively and efficiently design your own home page with HTML,
and how to install it on a server.
* The principles of good home page design, in order to project a favorable
image for you and/or your employer or business.
* The advantages and disadvantages of HTML editors, such as NetObjects Fusion,
Netscape Navigator Gold, Microsoft FrontPage, Claris Home Page, HoTMetaL,
and HTML Assistant, and related utilities.
Three Make the Link Workshop sessions will be scheduled for this summer.
The dates are:
June Session: June 16 - August 9
July Session: July 14 - September 6
August Session: August 11 - October 3
The cost of the Workshop is $20 US.
Sign up for ONE session only unless you plan to take the Workshop more than
once.. To sign up for one of the Make the Link Workshop sessions, please
send an e-mail message to the address:
majordomo@arlington.com
and in the body of the message, include:
subscribe links-jun
to subscribe to the June session, or
subscribe links-jul
to subscribe to July session, or
subscribe links-aug
to subscribe to the August session.
This will automatically put you on the mailing list for more information
about the Workshop, and you will receive an acknowledgment with the particulars
about signing up, and unsubscribing, should you decide not to participate.
If you have any difficulty with this procedure or fail to receive a
response, please send e-mail to this address:
tcopley@arlington.com
In order to get the most from this Workshop it is helpful to have either
Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, or another graphical Web
browser actually running one on your own computer directly connected to
the Internet. If you wish to run Navigator or another browser you will need
to have a computer with a TCP/IP connection, that is, a direct connection
to the Internet. Information will be provided during the workshop about
how to set up a TCP/IP connection. In order to participate in the Workshop
you only need access to e-mail. However, it is very desirable to actually
use a WWW browser.
The Workshop leader, Thomas P. Copley, Ph.D., has taught the popular Make
the Link Workshop since 1995. He is also the author of the Tune In the Net
Workshop <http://www.bearfountain.com/arlington/tune.html>, which will also be conducted this summer. During
1994-5 he taught the Go-pher-it Workshop almost a dozen times. Go-pher-it
was one of the first Internet workshops taught entirely by e-mail. Dr. Copley
is one of the founders of the Electronic University in San Francisco, and
is an experienced instructor of distance learning courses via networks.
In addition to consulting for Apple Computer, Inc. on hyper-textual distance
learning software, Copley has served on the faculties of Washington State
University, Antioch College, and Armstrong University. He is also the Editor
of the electronic newsletter the TELELEARNING NETWORK SYNTHESIZER, and the
moderator of the de-marketing (distance education) mailing list.
* A plain ASCII text version is also available.
THOMAS P. COPLEY <tcopley@arlington.com>
Make the Link Workshop <www.bearfountain.com/arlington/>
August 14-16,
1997; Newcastle, Australia
6th International Conference on Health and Medical Informatics Education
See the *Preliminary Program* on the Conference pages:
The International Medical Informatics Association,
Working Group 1: Health and Medical Informatics Education (IMIA WG1), the
Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) and the Health
Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) as sponsoring bodies, hosted by
the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Newcastle,
Australia, have pleasure in announcing an international conference on Health
and Medical Informatics Education.
Invited Speakers
**Education and training of medical informatics in the medical curriculum
JAN VAN BEMMEL (The Netherlands)
**Networking multimedia: Transforming education in health and medical informatics
ALEXA MCCRAY (USA)
**Twenty five years medical informatics education at Heidelberg/Heilbronn:
Experiences and
perspectives in a specialized curriculum for medical informatics FRANZ-JOSEF
LEVEN (Germany)
**Health and medical education for nurses and health service managers EVELYN
HOVENGA (Australia)
**HMI education for HIMs (Health Information Managers) ROSEMARY ROBERTS
(Australia)
Topics:
-Basic core requirements for health and medical informatics education for
all levels of health care professionals.
-Health and Medical Informatics courses and programs for physicians, for
nurses, for other healthcare professionals, eg medical records administrators,
health services administrators.
-Health and Medical Informatics education for informaticians and computer
scientists.
-Programs and courses for specialists in Health and Medical Informatics
-A framework for recognition and accreditation of Health and Medical Informatics
courses.
-Telematics infrastructure in the delivery of course materials including
flexible learning methods, eg distance education.
-Using multimedia, intranet and World Wide Web applications
Location:
The conference will be held from August 14 to August 16 at the David Maddison
Building at the Royal Newcastle Hospital, Faculty of Medicine & Health
Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
August 23-29,
1997
15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence; Nagoya,
Japan
(See the Jan-Feb, 1997 AVI Newsletter for details)
September 4-6,
1997
GEOMED '97; Rostock, Germany
(See the Jan-Feb, 1997 AVI Newsletter for details)
September 10-14,
1997
Veterinary Informatics at the 5th World Equine Veterinary Association; Padova,
Italy
(See the July-August, 1996 AVI Newsletter for details)
October 4-7,
1997
NAWEB97: Web Course Developers Conference; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
NAWEB '97: Shortening the Distance to Education
An International Conference to be held at Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
October 4th - 7th, 1997
The impact of the World Wide Web has been felt
throughout the educational world. This conference will focus on practical
ways in which the Web is changing education. Topics for the conference include,
but are not limited to:
*Courseware Development for the WWW
*Evaluating Web-based Education
*Building Knowledge Bases on the Web
*Beyond HTML
*The Web and Distance Education
*Changing Academia through the Web
You are invited to share your expertise and ideas by presenting a paper
or organizing a panel.
Submissions should be sent in the form of an abstract of 300-500 words.
This abstract will appear in the online conference program if the submission
is accepted. Normally, papers will be presented in 30 minutes. The committee
particularly welcomes proposals that involve active participation by the
conference attendees.
Online proceedings will be published for this conference. Full papers should
be submitted in text or HTML markup to the addresses below. Please use the
template for the paper provided at:
The following information must be included:
* title of paper or poster as it should appear in the program
* full name, address, telephone and fax numbers of presenter(s)
* e-mail address (and Web address, if available)
* exact requirements for computing-audio-visual equipment
Abstracts may be submitted via electronic mail to: Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu
Submission Deadline: July 4, 1997
Notification of acceptance will be sent by July 25, 1997
Submission Deadline for Online Full Paper for Proceedings: August 22, 1997
Come be a part of a the third NAWEB, a conference specifically devoted to
WWW development for education and educators!
Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences Online
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E-mail: pnas@nas.edu
ISSN 1091-6490
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the United
States of America is an subscription-based, full-text, electronic version
of the print journal of the same title. PNAS is currently offering free
access to its site until Decemeber 31, 1997.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, established in 1915,
publishes research reports, commentaries, reviews, colloquium papers, and
actions of the Academy. In accordance with the guiding principles established
by George Ellery Hale in 1914, the Proceedings publishes brief first announcements
of the Members' and Foreign Associates' (hereafter referred to as the Members)
more important contributions to research and work that appears to a Member
to be of particular importance.
Proceedings is a multidisciplinary journal that covers the physical, biological,
and social sciences. Published bi-weekly, Proceedings disseminates the work
done by leading researchers and reaches more than 25,000 readers worldwide.
Proceedings is ranked as the second most-cited scientific serial in the
world by the Institute for Scientific Information.
PNAS Online, launched in early January 1997, includes all the articles in
the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences plus the Information
for Authors. PNAS Online contains articles in both Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML) and Portable Document Format (PDF), and includes the last four issues
of 1996.
Basic features of PNAS Online:
** Browse and search the text of all articles
** Access back issues to November 1996
** Link from References to the full text of the online article
** Includes Medline abstracts of cited articles
** View special collections of papers at a glance -- Inaugural Papers, Colloquia,
and Reviews
** Free access to the list of Academy Members, Tables of Contents, and Abstracts
Subscription information for both hardcopy and online editions of PNAS is
available from subspnas@nas.edu.
Digital Medicine
From: owner-newjour@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Digital Medicine <http://www.totalweb.co.uk/ic/lifebase/menu.htm>
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of the latest electronic medical information products and services available
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Home PCs Rank
First in Doing Nothing
From: Edupage Editors <educom@elanor.oit.unc.edu>
Forget about productivity -- a recent study by the NPD Group found that
the majority of the time that home PC is running, it's doing... nothing!
The study monitored 10,076 computer-owning households and used its PC Meter
software to tally the time the computers sat idle following an initial 60
seconds of no activity on the keyboard or mouse. Fifty-four percent of the
time the machines were switched on, they were not being used, and when they
were used, the biggest chunk of time (29%) was devoted to "futzing"
-- fiddling around with operating systems, organizing files, changing "wallpaper"
and screensaver patterns, and altering the speed of the cursor blink. Meanwhile,
word processing and business software use took up 16% of the time, and Internet
surfing accounted for only 12%. The Sierra Club points out that turning
a computer on and leaving it on unused for three hours a day results in
about 200 pounds of carbon dioxide pollution every year. (Wall Street Journal
28 Feb 97)
Technologies
Americans Love To Hate
From: Edupage Editors <educom@educom.unc.edu>
America's Research Group conducted a survey of 1,000 consumers late last
year, and discovered that Internet shopping is No. 2 on the list of technologies
people wish had never been invented. And No. 1? "What America calls
the dreaded voice mail. This is where they're put into a machine that instructs
them what to do. They press all these different keys. Ultimately, they never
talk to anybody. And many times they find their phone call is never returned.
This is not only far and away the thing they most wish was never invented,
but it's also probably the biggest negative to customer service today,"
says ARG founder C. Britt Beemer. Internet shopping came in second because
customers found "it was more difficult than I thought it would be.
And it took too much time." Another commented, "What happens if
I have a problem with the product? I can't shove it in my hard drive and
send it back." Meanwhile, car cell phones came in third place: "This
was a shock to me," says Beemer. "People don't like seeing other
people using a cellular phone in a car. Virtually every woman who was married
with children said they thought it was a road hazard... They view car cell
phones as devices that jeopardize their families." (Investor's Business
Daily 22 May 97)
Medical Semantics
From: Martin Hugh-Jones <mehj2020@vt8200.vetmed.lsu.edu>
The following extracts of actual medical reports recently appeared in the
newsletter of the Army Air Corps Enlisted Pilots Association ... "The
Flying Sergeant".
"The patient has been depressed ever since she began seeing me in 1983."
"By the time he was admitted, his rapid heart had stopped and he was
feeling fine."
"The patient is a 79 year old widow who no longer lives with her husband."
"Discharge status: Alive but without permission."
"Many years ago the patient had frost bite of the right shoe."
"The patient refused an autopsy."