Understanding Healthcare Information

HLG Conference July 19th-20th 2010

Lyn Robinson

lyn@soi.city.ac.uk

What does a healthcare information specialist need to know?

Something about information resources?

UCL Medical School Library

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data-protection privacy freedom-of-information personal-profile security identity-theft ebooks 3G iPad smart-phones books libraries digital-collections repositories digitization avatar apps open-data gps data-visualization social-network-services social-media censorship preservation centralized-data-collection database-state collection-mangement meta-data semantic-web classification tags thesauri mashups search retrieval users information-architecture 3D-graphics

the information communication chain

creator > dissemination > organization > indexing/retrieval > user

Robinson L (2009). Information Science: the information chain and domain analysis. Journal of Documentation, vol 65(4), 578-591.

Domain Analysis

• epistemological studies• historical studies• user studies• bibliometrics• creation of resource guides• knowledge organization• informal retrieval

Hjorland B (2002). Domain Analysis in Information Science. Journal of Documentation vol 58(4), 422-462.

Drivers for Change

• technology• economics• politics• society

The ipad

• 3 million sold in 80 days since US launch

• the end of printed materials?• the death of the library?• no need for information

specialists?

Understanding Healthcare Information

• understanding of the information communication chain, as it applies to the domain of healthcare

• working to facilitate communication between the author and the user

• fundamental practice - not likely to change soon