consumer health information gets a second life

Consumer Health

Information Gets a

Second Life• The path to Second Life• Second Life• HealthInfo Island• Observations

Hospital medical library

OSF St. Francis: A 650 bed tertiary care teaching hospital with more than 4,000 employees in Peoria, Illinois

~60,000 smokers and ex-smokers members in over 160 countries. Over over 3,000 support messages are posted on QuitNet every day -- that's over two messages EVERY minute of every day

A 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 5,330,466 people from around the globe.

The path to Second Life

Eye4You Alliance◇University College Dublin◇SL Hill Society Library ◇ McMaster University ◇ Topeka Shawnee

County Public Library ◇ Special Librarians in Second Life ◇ South Carolina State Library ◇ University of Plymouth ◇ University of South Florida ◇ Claremont College Digital

Library ◇ Johnson and Wales University Library ◇ Georgia Institute of technology ◇ Australian Libraries◇Glenview IL Public Library ◇UCLA Stanford Science and Engineering

Libraries ◇ University of Illinois ◇ University of Montevallo Carmichael Library ◇ Art Libraries Canada ◇ University of

North Carolina School of Library and Information Science ◇ IBM Library ◇ Nebraska Library Commission ◇ State

Library of Kansas ◇ Library and Archives Canada ◇ Law Library and Technology Center ◇ Michigan Library Consortium ◇ Murdoch University Library, Australia

HealthInfo Island Welcome Center

HealthInfo Island Medical Library

Namro Orman, head of the SL Medical Library

a.k.a. Guus van den Brekel, Coordinator of Electronic Services, CMB - University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands

You: What is migraine?[3:18] Hallie: Let me try and Google it. .[3:18] Hallie: Google Define -> A disorder characterized by recurrent moderate to severe headaches that may be accompanied by dizziness, nausea, vomiting or extreme sensitivity to light and sound.

Training Demo held in Play2Train on April 6 2007

Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response

Scenario 1: Healthcare Facility "Sidewalk Triage" Training

The pandemic begins to pick up momentum and hospitals are facing overwhelming surge. As a surge control measure, the state decides healthcare facilities should move triage outside of the building. In order to do this, they will need assistance to train their staff to set up and operate sidewalk triage stations.

From http://play2train.hopto.org/

SL Consumer Health Library

Public Health Games .Health Fitness Co-op…Men's Health .Sacred Heart Hospital Real Mental Health…MD Kiosk National Institutes of Health .Positive Mental Health Psychosis and Depression…. Prostate Cancer Support Alternative Health Club….Foundation for Diabetic Children…. Cancer Co-Op …. Virtually You! Center for Health and Wellness .NicoBloc Stop

Smoking Exhibition Broken Silence - Domestic Violence Resource Center….Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

(CDC) test site…New Babbage Medical League Prostate Cancer Research Foundation Master Physicians Honor Corps Old Time Medical Clinic Depression Support…AIDS and HIV

HELP Group….Dreams The Leukemia & LymphomaSociety Alcoholics Anonymous Breast Cancer

Awareness Second Life Relay For Life Alternative Cancer Support Expert Breast Cancer Awareness

Center and Why Not? Shop Support Diabetes Friends MS Support Group Fibromyalgia

Q: What kinds of questions do you get?

A: Every kind!

Reference in SL

What can I do at Second Life?

• Network• Collaborate• Re-think library spaces• Support other SL efforts• Discuss the use of role-playing in LIS education and training• Create and test new tools• Position yourself for the future• Have fun!

How do I get involved?

• Register at http://secondlife.com/

• Download software

• (note system requirements)

• Invest a little

• Use your contacts

• Explore

Learn, dream: When worlds collide

HealthInfoIsland

Health Empowerment Community

Contact me:Carolina Keats, a.k.a.

Carol PerrymanSchool of Information & Library Science

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill cp1757@gmail.com

Thank you!

Presented on Thursday, April 12, 2007at VCU Libraries

Links:infoisland.org

http://infoisland.org/health_info/healthinfoisland.blogspot.com

http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/http://play2train.hopto.org