National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR)

NICHSR and Related Presentations

HL7 January Working Group Meeting

NLM Standards Related Activities, Vivian Auld (January 14, 2008, Presentation) (PowerPoint, 1.3 MB) (PDF, 973 KB) (HTML, 39.4 KB)

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting 2007

HSR and PH Information: NLM and Beyond, Catherine Selden (June 3, 2007, Presentation) (PPT, 4.4 MB) (PDF, 1.4 MB)
Development, Dissemination, and Utilization of Public Health Systems Research Resources, F. Douglas Scutchfield, M.D. (June 3, 2007, Presentation) (PPT, 2.7 MB) (PDF, 213 KB)
More and Better Data for Research: U.S. Health Data Content Standards, Vivian Auld (June 3, 2007, Presentation) (PPT, 221 KB) (PDF, 917 KB)

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting 2006

HSR Information: NLM and Beyond, Catherine Selden (June 25, 2006, Presentation) (PPT, 4.7 MB) (PDF, 2.2 MB)
NLM Database Central: The First Place to Look for Your PHSR Research Data, Douglas Scutchfield, M.D. (June 25, 2006, Presentation) (PPT, 454 KB) (PDF, 326 KB)
More and Better Data for Research: Federal Health Information Technology Developments, Vivian Auld (June 25, 2006, Presentation) (PPT, 1.9 MB) (PDF, 2.3 MB)

HL7 Meeting 2005

Standards on a National Level: NLM Activities, Vivian Auld (September 12, 2005, Presentation) (PPT, .17 MB) (PDF, .83 MB )

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting 2005

HSR Information: NLM and Beyond, Marjorie A. Cahn (June 26, 2005, Presentation) (PPT, 7.8 MB) (PDF, 4.2 MB)
More and Better Data for Research, Vivian Auld (June 26, 2005, Presentation),(PPT, 1 MB) (PDF, 1.6 MB)

Medical Library Association 2004 Annual Meeting

Public Health/Health Administration Section Program - Mining Data for Knowledge Generation: Collecting, Using, and Promoting Data Sets (May 23, 2004)
- Helena VonVille (PDF, 725K)
- Peggy Tahir and Min-Lin Fang (PDF, 418K)
- Vivian Auld (PDF, 802K)
- Anna Orlova (PDF, 2.5MB)

National Association of Health Data Organizations Annual Meeting 2002

Practical Resources for Public Health Data Organizations, Marjorie A. Cahn (December 3, 2002), (PDF, 3MB)

From Research To Presentation, AcademyHealth Seminars in Health Services Research Methods, November 5, 2002:

Class Introduction, Marjorie A. Cahn (slides),(PDF, .13MB)
Using NLM products and services in health services research
- NICHSR (Marj Cahn slides), (PDF, 3MB)
- PubMed (Rhonda Allard slides), (PDF, 10MB)
- MedlinePlus (Carolyn Williard slides, handout)
Web searching and quality filtering (Bryan Vogh slides)
Finding and using health statistics (Mary Ryan slides, exercises handout, resources handout)
Finding datasets/data collection instruments/analytical software for research (Catherine Selden slides)
Using EndNote reference manager (Kim Lipsey slides)
Creating effective presentations using PowerPoint (Whitney Davison-Turley/Bryan Vogh/Marcia Zorn slides, handout)

Medical Library Association 2001 Annual Meeting

Library Partnerships - Powerful Connections Symposium, MLA/NLM co-sponsored class (May 30, 2001). The agenda and slide presentations are available.

International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care (ISTAHC) 2000 Annual Meeting

Some Issues in the Identification of Information in Health Economics, Moira Napper, Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen (June 26, 2000)

Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy 2000 Annual Meeting

The New Millennium: Electronic Health Record Meets Digital Library, Betsy L. Humphreys (June 26, 2000)

Medical Informatics and Health Services Research: Bridging the Gap Meeting, January 6-7, 2000. Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Agenda and slide presentations

Medical Library Association 1998 Annual Meeting

MLA CE class - Introduction to HSR, Marjorie A. Cahn, Ione Auston, Catherine Selden (May 23, 1998)
Medical Informatics and Public Health/Health Administration Libraries Sections Program - Public Health Informatics: Connections Between Public Health and Health Care Systems (May 24, 1998)

Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health, March 23, 1998. Sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) and The National Library of Medicine (NLM).

The conference goals were to identify and address problems that professionals in health policy and public health face in retrieving information and assessing its quality.

Conference agenda and slide presentions
Conference papers were published in the Journal of Urban Health, volume 75, issue 4, December 1998. Abstracts of selected papers are available from Oxford University Press.