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Association for
Veterinary Informatics
NEWSLETTER
May - June, 1997
Harmon Rogers
(Lake Stevens, WA) - President; - President-Elect; James T. Case
(UC-Davis) - Secretary Treasurer; Ronald D. Smith (Illinois) -
Newsletter Editor
IN THIS ISSUE
ASSOCIATION
NEWS
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:
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/avicai/avicai.html
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
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From:
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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/>
INTERNET
RESOURCES
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:
http://www.powerup.com.au/~jvet/jvet196a.htm
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."
NEWS
AND COMMENTARY
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
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
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
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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:
http://www.health.newcastle.edu.au/~wg1/imiawg.htm
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
http://www.unb.ca/web/wwwdev/naweb97/naweb97.htm
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:
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/naweb97/template.html
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!
SUGGESTED
READING
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.
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Medicine <http://www.totalweb.co.uk/ic/lifebase/menu.htm>
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news of the latest electronic medical information products and
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CLOSING
BITS
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."
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