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Association for
Veterinary Informatics
NEWSLETTER
July-August, 1996
Noell Moseley (Memphis, TN) -
President; Harmon Rogers (Lake Stevens, WA) - President-Elect;
James T. Case (UC-Davis) - Secretary Treasurer; Ronald D. Smith
(Illinois) - Newsletter Editor.
IN THIS ISSUE
ASSOCIATION NEWS
AVI Events and the July AVMA
Meeting, Louisville, KY
From: Noell Moseley
<74232.25@compuserve.com>
AVI
President
Monday, July 22, 1996
Second Annual Richard B.
Talbot Informatics Symposium - 113 Convention Center
9:00 am - 10:00 am "Veterinary Informatics--The
Best Kept Secret"
Dr. Ronald D. Smith, University of
Illinois
10:00 am - 10:45 am Break
10:45 am - 11:45
am "Multimedia for the Masses"
Dr. Harmon Rogers,
Snohomish, WA
11:45 am - 1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm "Grateful Med, Easy Access to the Veterinary
Literature in MEDLINE"
Ms. Dena K. Plaisted, National
Network of Libraries of Medicine
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
"Life-long Learning"
Dr. Robin Starr, Hershey Medical
Center
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm "The Internet Revisited"
Dr.
Kenneth R. Boschert, Washington University
AVI Committee Meetings - 5:30 pm -
7:00 pm
Tuesday, July 23, 1996
10 a.m. - 12 noon -
Working Group meetings
Computer Aided Instruction (CAI) -
Broadway C
http://www.vetmed.wsu.ed
u/avicai/avicai.html
Practice Mgmt -
Jefferson
Computerized Medical Records (CMR) -
Louisville
Communications - Graham
12 noon - 2 p.m. -
AVI Business Meeting and Luncheon - Broadway A
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; 2742 Concord Ave.; Davis,
CA 95616
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 Newsletter on the Web at the following URL:
http://netvet.wustl.edu/avi.htm.<
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VETERINARY INFORMATICS:
THE BEST KEPT SECRET
Abstract of a Paper
Presented at the
Second Annual Richard B. Talbot Informatics
Symposium
133rd Annual Meeting of the American Veterinary
Medical Association
Louisville, KY
by
Dr. Ronald
D. Smith
College of Veterinary Medicine; University of
Illinois; Urbana, IL 61801
<rd-smith@uiuc.edu>
The
author would like to acknowledge the assistance of Ms. Mitsuko
Williams,
Veterinary Medicine Librarian, in performing the
bibliographic searches.
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
Veterinary informatics is defined
as "...the discipline concerned with the application of
information science, engineering, and computer technology to
support veterinary teaching, research, and practice"
<http://netvet.wustl.edu/info.htm
>.
Although computers and information science have
"infiltrated" all facets of the veterinary profession,
veterinary informatics has largely escaped detection as a
recognizable discipline. This paper reports on a study conducted
by the author to define the veterinary informatics knowledge base
and assess the level of activity in the field. The appropriateness
of current veterinary informatics sub-specialties was also
examined.
METHODS
Grateful Med was used to search
NLM's MEDLINE bibliographic database for articles which shared one
or more MeSH keywords from the VETERINARY and MEDICAL INFORMATICS
subject headings, covering a 30 year time period from 1966 to June
30, 1996. References were downloaded and imported into EndNotereg.
Plus 2.1 for analysis. MeSH MEDICAL INFORMATICS keywords were
mapped to sub-specialties defined by the American Academy of
Veterinary Informatics (AAVI) <http://netvet.wustl.edu/aavi.htm
> and the number of articles retrieved by each MeSH keyword
indicated. Each MeSH keyword was assigned to only one AAVI
category.
RESULTS
A total of 611 articles were
retrieved by the combined search strategy, representing the
contributions of 1338 authors published in 153 journals. Based on
the number of veterinary informatics articles published per year,
the field experienced slow growth over the 20-year period from
1966 through 1985. In the past decade the cumulative number of
veterinary informatics articles has almost tripled, and the
percentage of veterinary-related articles that included an
informatics component increased almost 2 1/2 fold. A small but
statistically-insignificant increase in veterinary informatics
articles as a percentage of all medical informatics articles was
also observed. These findings support the hypothesis that
veterinary informatics is a growth area in veterinary medicine
that is keeping pace with the field of medical informatics in
general. Despite this recent growth, the number of
veterinary-related articles with an informatics component has
never exceeded 1% of either the veterinary or medical informatics
literature over the past 30 years.
The MeSH medical
informatics hierarchy differs considerably from the functional
categories developed by the AAVI. Sixty of the 95 MeSH medical
informatics terms were assigned to a corresponding veterinary
informatics sub-specialty. The remaining 35, which describe the
tools of informatics rather than their application, were assigned
to a new "hardware and programming" category. In cases
where the content of retrieved articles was highly complementary,
corresponding AAVI categories were combined.
The resulting
veterinary informatics sub-specialties, ranked by the number of
articles retrieved for each (in parentheses), follows:
*
Information and bibliographical retrieval (135)
* Decision
support (47)
* Clinical Research/Epidemiology (40)
*
Radiology/imaging (40)
* Education (computer-assisted
instruction; CAI) (21)
* Medical record systems (12)
*
Patient monitoring (8)
* Hospital information/practice
management systems (5)
* Laboratory information systems (1)
*
Pharmacy systems (0)
* Systems evaluation & validation (0)
General category:
*
Hardware and programming (434)
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
The MeSH-based
search strategy provided a rapid, systematic and reproducible way
of building a veterinary informatics knowledge base. Activity in
the field is diverse and increasing, but representation in the
veterinary literature is very low. Mapping MeSH terms to
veterinary informatics sub-specialties was imprecise. Many MeSH
terms could not be assigned to any particular sub-specialty as
they described the tools of informatics rather than their
application. These terms were useful, however, for retrieving
informatics articles.
Some sub-specialties, such as
information and bibliographic retrieval, were well represented in
the literature. Others, such as educational computing, medical
records nomenclature, and hospital information systems yielded
relatively few articles, despite extensive experimentation at most
veterinary colleges. It is unfortunate that user experiences in
such important areas is not being reported.
The veterinary
informatics knowledge base described in this report documents the
contribution of veterinary informatics to all aspects of
veterinary medicine. However, most of the 1338 authors of the 611
articles retrieved would probably not consider themselves to be
informaticians, or to be conducting informatics research. However,
ALL of these authors have applied veterinary medical informatics
concepts and methodology to accomplish their work.
INTERNET RESOURCES
Computerized Patient
Records
From: Jim Case <JCASE@CVDLS-E201.UCDAVIS.EDU&
gt;
There is a new medically oriented WWW site at
http://www.pmrinc.com
that deals with computerized patient records as
well as custom software for school nurses. You can download a demo
of the SOAP computerized patient record software at
ftp://ftp.pmrinc.com/pub/sdemo.zip
QD-POP:
Web-Based POP Mail Client
From: Michael Hogarth
<mahogarth@ucdavis.edu>
We
have written a simple web-based cgi POP mail client in PERL. A
demo and the source code are available on our web
site-->http://www-ucdci.ucdmc.ucdavis.ed
u; follow links to QD-POP. It allows you to check POP mail
accounts through a web browser.
It comes in handy when you
are at a conference where browsers are plenty, but nobody lets you
configure and use a POP client. Now you can simply walk up to the
computers with browsers and indeed check+respond to mail.
Feedback is welcome.
Michael Hogarth, MD; Div. of
Medical Informatics; UC-Davis School of Medicine
C-EDRES
- Educational Resource Mailing List
From: Lynn Thomas
<d616@unb.ca>
C-EDRES
on c-edres-server@unb.ca
C-EDRES is a moderated educational
resource mailing list for educators. We provide announcements and
reviews three times a week on a variety of sites of interest to
educators. We review all levels of sites from all subject areas.
The reviews are written by you the subscribers and the owners so
we can assure that you are recieving some of the best sites on the
World Wide Web (WWW).
Our reviews give a brief, but
accurate description of the site, as well as, an evaulation of the
naviagation, graphics, grammer, and usefulness of the site for
educators in particular.
To subscribe to our C-EDRES
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WELLPET-L
- Holistic/Natural Pet Care
From: Katrina Ritchie
<katrina@cia.com.au>
WELLPET-L
on MAJORDOMO@CIA.COM.AU - Holistic/Natural Pet Care Discussion
WELLPET-L IS an unmoderated list, specifically for the
discussion of Holistic or Natural Pet care and is open to all
those with a sincere interest in alternative methods of animal
care. Topics could include the use and application natural diets
and nutrition, homeopathic remedies, the use of vitamin and food
supplements, herbal medicine, flower remedies, massage therapies
and accupuncture. Anti Holistic posts are not welcome.
To
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NEWS AND COMMENTARY
Industrial Classification of Veterinary Medicine
From:
Gerald E. Schluter <schluter@MAILBOX.ECON.AG.GOV&
gt;
The North American Industry Classification System
Committee has proposed moving the classification of SIC 0741
Veterinary Services for Livestock and SIC 0742 Veterinary Services
for Animal Specialties (under group Ag. Services) to Veterinary
Services under Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical
Services. under the Group - Professional, Scientific, and
Technical Services.
Additional information and instructions
on filing comments on the proposed move can be found in the
Tuesday, May 28 Federal Register, pp 26558-26668.
To obtain
this document via WWW browser connect to http//www.census.gov,
then select "Economy", then "Economy-wide
Programs", the "NAICS Documents"
Year
2000 Issue: Public Health Information/Surveillance Systems
From:
<jack.woodall@wadsworth.org><
BR>
The Year 2000 Issue: Implications for Public Health
Information and Surveillance Systems
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
White Paper - May 1996
Source:
http://www.cdc.gov/year2000.htm
"It is vital that the public health community begin
aggressively addressing this issue to avoid serious negative
programmatic effects across public health."
Background
A
phenomenon exists in the Information Technology (IT) industry
because historically many computer programs make use of dates
represented by only two digits (for example, 95 rather than 1995).
However common this practice might be, it causes programs (both
system and application) that perform arithmetic operations,
comparisons, or sorting of date fields to yield incorrect results
when working with years outside the range of 1900-1999.
The
scope of the Year 2000 challenge spans the entire IT industry. A
data mismatch can exist in any level of hardware or software from
microcode to application programs, in files and databases, and is
present on ALL platforms. In recent years, the IT trade press has
given ever greater attention to this phenomenon with increasingly
ominous predictions.
However dramatic all this may sound,
consider the following scenarios to help put the phenomenon and
its business ramifications into perspective. Imagine if in the
first quarter of the year 2000 your company cannot process its
1999 end-of-year billing or end-of-year payroll properly; your
corporate credit card holders are refused most transactions
because their accounts appear delinquent; your 1999 year-end
profit data cannot be calculated properly; and your utility
companies cut off their services due to your apparent late bill
payments. Similarly, your household and personal financial
situation could encounter a similar dilemma if your creditors do
not also strive to meet this challenge.
Although referred
to as the Year 2000 issue, this is really a 2-digit-year problem.
Your IS [Information Systems] organization needs to plan for and
address the date changes well in advance of 1 January 2000. This
is not only a future challenge; it has existed in the banking
industry since as early as 1970 when application programs
encountered problems with amortization and interest table
calculations for the standard 30-year mortgage. Consider also, a
5-year automobile loan, a 15-year mortgage, a long-term insurance
policy, a data base that retains birth dates (which includes an
ever increasing set of dates over 100 years). Now, as each month
passes, more applications are uncovered that have to start
immediately handling dates with the Year 2000 or
beyond.
Implications for Public Health
All
organizations are affected by this issue from a business and
administrative perspective. However, public health information and
surveillance systems at all levels of local, state, federal, and
international public health are especially sensitive to and
dependent upon dates for epidemiological and health statistics
reasons. Date of events, durations between events, and other
calculations such as age of people are core epidemiologic and
health statistic requirements.
Moreover, public health
authorities are usually dependent upon primary data providers such
as physician practices, laboratories, hospitals, managed care
organizations, etc., as the source of original data upon which
public health analyses and actions take place. CDC, for example,
maintains over 100 public health surveillance systems all of which
are dependent upon external sources of data. This means that it is
not sufficient to make internal systems compliant to the Year 2000
to address all of the ramifications of this issue. To illustrate
this point, consider the following scenario: in April 2000, a
hospital sends an electronic surveillance record to the local or
state health department reporting the death of an individual who
was born in year "00"; is this a case of infant
mortality or a geriatric case?
For further info see CDC's
web page: http://www.cdc.gov/year2000.htm
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
>
August, 1996
Risk Analysis and Animal Health;
Switzerland
(See the Mar-Apr, 1996 AVI Newsletter for
details)
August 7-9, 1996
12th Annual Conference on
Distance Teaching & Learning; Madison, WI
(See the
Jan-Feb, 1996 AVI Newsletter for details)
August 26-30,
1996
Stanford Medical Informatics Short Course; Stanford, CA
From: Larry Fagan <fagan@CAMIS.Stanford.EDU>
The
Section on Medical Informatics at Stanford University will once
again be presenting its well-received Short Course on Medical
Informatics. This course provides an introductory overview of the
key issues and topics in the field of medical informatics.
Lectures are augmented by hands-on labs and overviews of major
research projects at Stanford. This material is presented from the
academic perspective.
Lectures include: Networking,
Clinical Information Systems, Electronic Medical Records, Imaging,
Monitoring, Computers in Education, Decision Making, Bibliographic
Retrieval, Biomedical Resources on the Network, and Medical
Vocabulary Issues.
Labs include: Networks (including World
Wide Web), Electronic Medical Records, Computer-Aided Instruction,
Decision Support (including medical diagnostic programs),
Bibliographic Retrieval and the Unified Medical Language
System.
Enrollment in the course is limited--a few
positions are available in the June course; more positions are
available for August.
Dates: Monday, June 17, 1996 to
Friday, June 21, 1996 and again from Monday, August 26, 1996 to
August 30,1996.
A brochure for the course is available on
the World Wide Web at:
http://camis.stanford.edu/
shortcourse.html
To obtain the course description automatically
via email, send a message
TO:
short-course-request@c
amis.stanford.edu
with
SUBJECT:
send course
or contact course staff
at: short-course@camis.stanford.ed
u (415)723-6979
September 25, 1996
Conference: The
World-Wide-Web in the Academic Medical Enterprise; New York, NY
The World-Wide-Web in the Academic Medical Enterprise
(First Announcement)
25th September, 1996 at NYU Medical Center
550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
The purpose of
this conference is to provide attendees an opportunity to inspect
progress made in implementing the WWW in the Academic Medical
Enterprise. Sessions will explore progress in areas including
development of medical information resources, medical education,
the management of confidential patient information and the legal
implications of some of these activities. Round-table discussions
and questions from the floor will allow attendees to obtain
accurate, practical advice to make appropriate investments in this
new technology with confidence.
Continuing Medical
Education credit will be offered for qualified attendees. For
information look at the URL:
http://rcr-www.med.ny
u.edu/rcr/web_conf.html
October 14-17, 1996
European Congress of the Internet in
Medicine; Brighton, UK
(See the Jan-Feb, 1996 AVI Newsletter
for details)
October 13-16, 1996
Society for Medical
Decision Making (SMDM); Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Westin
Harbour Castle Hotel; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(See the
Mar-Apr, 1996 AVI Newsletter for details)
October 26-30,
1996
AMIA Fall Symposium; Washington, DC
(See the Mar-Apr,
1996 AVI Newsletter for details)
October 28-30, 1996
AMIA
1996 Fall Symposium Computer Lab; Washington, DC
From:
gmalet@surfer.win.net
(Gary Malet)
The following is the AMIA sanctioned
announcement of the 1996 Fall Symposium Computer Lab. It will be
available in hypertext at
http://www
-informatics.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/Amia/homepage.htm
American Medical Informatics Association
Internet
Working Group
Medical Internet Skills Computer Lab
Resources,
Utilities, Authoring Tools, And Advanced Applications
AMIA
Annual Fall Symposium
Washington Sheraton, Washington,
D.C.
October 28 - October 30, 1996
Introduction
The
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Internet Working
Group will sponsor a hands-on computer laboratory at this year's
AMIA Fall Symposium to be held October 28-30, 1996 in Washington,
D.C.
Participants will learn how to take advantage of a
wealth of Internet multimedia documents that will support patient
care into the 21st century. Resource developers will share their
knowledge about emerging hardware and software that is creating a
global information network for hospitals, clinics, companies, and
universities.
The Medical Internet Skills Computer Lab will
provide a unique environment that will encourage group
participation and collaborative problem solving. Authors of
significant medical Internet projects, experts in Internet HTML
composition, and innovative programmers will share their
expertise.
The Symposium And Internet Working Group
Each
fall AMIA brings together greater than two thousand of the world's
foremost informatics specialists for academic sessions at its Fall
Symposium. This year the Symposium's theme is "Beyond the
Superhighway: Exploiting the Internet with Medical Informatics."
AMIA, http://www.amia.org,
is the premier organization in the United States dedicated to the
development and application of medical informatics in the support
of patient care, teaching, research, and health care
administration. AMIA's Internet Working Group,
http://www
-informatics.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/Amia/homepage.htm, is an
interest group within AMIA that is responding to a global medical
community's urgent need for networked medical information. The
group is composed of medical professionals, university based
medical resource developers, computer programmers, and publishers.
Call For Speakers And Presenters
Developers of
medical Internet resources and masters of authoring programs and
utilities are invited to submit projects and topics for
presentation at this Computer Lab. Facilitators to monitor and
assist participants at workstations are also needed. Please
contact the 1996 Internet Working Group Program Manager Dr.
Beverley Kane, bkane@apple.com, to contribute to this important
project.
Schedule
Sunday, October 27 Noon to 5
PM
Monday, October 28 8:30 AM to 8 PM
Tuesday, October 29
8:30 AM to 8 PM
Content
1. Basic tools for
networking on the Internet
Accessing
information via WWW, FTP, Gopher. Communicating via mail and
newsgroups.
Internet protocols.
Add-On Applications - Using
Video, Audio, and Sound.
2. How to find medical information on the
Internet
Accessing
medically orientated networked information related to teaching,
research and administration.
Search Engines/Indexes.
Retrieving
inexpensive or free software. Searching the Internet to find
relevant medical and clinical science information
Web based
electronic medical records programs.
3. Authoring Internet Resources
The
newest authoring tools and techniques. HTML authoring
utilities.
Features of web browsers.
JAVA, PERL, and CGI
Scripts.
HTML facilitated database access.
4. Maintaining Internet Hardware and Tools
Server
programs and installation and maintenance. Listserv
operation.
Creating and maintaining firewalls.
Privacy,
confidentiality, and intellectual property. Installation of
Internet over networks.
Presentation Format/Facilities
Two meeting rooms with
Internet connectivity will offer a mini-theater and 10 fixed
computer workstations for academic hands-on demonstrations of
Internet software and resources. In the mini-theater (seating
approximately 50), invited presenters will demonstrate Internet
applications at scheduled intervals. Workstations will have
preloaded software that addresses topics covered in the academic
presentations. An usher will control room access. The Computer Lab
will be staffed by four facilitators to assist people at the
workstations.
Lab Access
Access to the computer lab
will be limited to attendees of the 1996 AMIA Annual Fall
Symposium. Admission tickets will be distributed during the
Symposium.
Symposium Registration
The preliminary
program and registration materials for the 1996 AMIA Annual Fall
Symposium will be available in August. This information will be on
the AMIA website at http://www.amia.org.
If you are not on AMIA's mailing list and would like to receive a
printed copy of the preliminary program, please contact:
Sharon
Jadrnak
Director of Information Technology and Systems American
Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 4915 St. Elmo Avenue, Suite
401
Bethesda, MD 20814
Voice: 301-657-1291
Fax:
301-657-1296
E-mail:
sharon@amia2.amia.org
http://www.amia.org
April
23-25, 1997
1997 Computers in Healthcare Education Symposium;
Philadelphia, PA
From: "Cindy A. Pitchon"
<PITCHON@SHRSYS.HSLC.ORG>
INVITATION
The
Health Sciences Libraries Consortium encourages the sharing of
resources among health sciences institutions and towards that end
sponsors the annual Computers in Healthcare Education Symposium.
The Symposium is a national forum for sharing ideas and expertise
about the use of technology in healthcare education. Each year,
hundreds of attendees--medical school faculty, computer services
personnel, librarians, and practitioners--come to Philadelphia for
this continuing education event.
We invite you to submit
proposals for the 1997 Symposium. While any topic related to
Computers in Healthcare Education will be considered for
inclusion, we are particularly interested in proposals related to
the theme "Re-engineering Healthcare Education."
SCOPE
The
Symposium includes two full days of paper presentations, panel
discussions, software demonstrations, poster sessions, and one day
of pre-conference workshops. To review several past programs,
visit the Symposium's World Wide Web site at:
http://jeffline.
tju.edu/CWIS/OAC/hslc/symposium.html
Four tracks are planned.
(Examples of possible topics are provided):
Issues for
Educators/Faculty (Computer-based learning systems, Ensuring
educational quality at multiple sites, Teleconferencing, Distance
Learning, etc.)
Issues for Librarians (Electronic journals,
Creating the Virtual Library, Remote Access, Problem-Based Medical
Curriculum, etc.)
Issues for Healthcare Practitioners
(Telemedicine, Medical Information Systems, Public Health Care,
etc.)
New Technologies in Education and Research (Advances
in Health Sciences Informatics, Telemedicine, Distance
Learning,
Designing the Virtual Lecture Hall, etc.)
For further
information contact:
Cindy Pitchon
<pitchon@shrsys.hslc.org>
Health
Sciences Libraries Consortium
3600 Market Street
Suite
550
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2646
September 10-14,
1997
Veterinary Informatics at the 5th World Equine Veterinary
Association; Padova, Italy
From: milo luxardo
<mluxardo@mbox.vol.it>
The
organizing committee of the Congress invites authors to submit
scientific abstracts for oral presentation or poster presentation
. Papers relating to recent research into any aspect of clinical
equine medicine and surgery and all fields of veterinary
informatics will be considered. The presentations will run within
the main scientific program or within the Veterinary Informatic
workshop on 10th,11th and 12th of September 1997. Abstracts should
be written in English.
Visit our WebPage
<http://www.finsystem.it/weva97>
For further information
e-mail:
mluxardo@mbox.vol.it
milo.luxardo@altair.it
CLOSING BITS
How to Build a Popular Web
Site
From: Edupage Editors
<educom@elanor.oit.unc.edu>
Companies such as A&B
Studios of Salt Lake City have figured out how to generate more
hits on their Web site -- they've incorporated the words "Barney,"
"fun," "sex," and numerous dirty words into
the border of their home page, thus generating hits from search
engines such as Webcrawler and Alta Vista. (Wall Street Journal 27
Jun 96 B1)
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