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New
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MEDLINE
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Betsy
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ELHILL
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Regents
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Honoring
Elsie Werth
Native
American Youth Visit
Dr.
Spann Retires
Public
Health Center Named for Dr. Mel Spann
NLM
Rolls Out New Booth
Dr.
Harold Schoolman Retires
Dead
Sea Scrolls
 Emerging
Health Information Infrastructure
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Partners
In Information Access Awards
Bosma
and McCutcheon Appointed Section Heads
NLM
Director Visits University of Colorado
Training
NLM Associate Fellows
"Breath
of Life" Exhibit
Dr.
Allen Dies
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"The Emerging Health Information Infrastructure:
Improving
Health in a Digital World"
Friends of the NLM Present the Latest in Technology and
Medicine at "HII99" Conference
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it," pronounced
Steve McGeady, Vice President of Intel Corporation's Content Group
and Director of its Internet Health Initiative, thus opening the
fourth annual "Health Information Infrastructure" meeting, a series
of plenary and breakout meetings presented by the Friends of the
NLM, April 26-28, 1999.
U.S. Senator James M. Jeffords (R- VT), Chairman of the Senate
Health, Education and Labor Committee, participated in two exciting
live demonstrations of telemedicine projects supported in part by
NLM. The first showed an innovative technology application that
allows parents to monitor low birth weight infants at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center in Boston prior to the babies' discharge,
and to have the patient home connected with the hospital for easy
monitoring by physicians afterwards. The other showed how homebound
elderly patients in rural Iowa linked to health professionals via
the latest telemedicine technology. These demonstrations illustrated
just two examples of groundbreaking technology that improves health
care, significantly decreases medical costs and provides real health
care solutions for underserved populations.
Participants also saw in action a new medical simulator designed
for bronchoscopy training, which is based on segmented graphics from
NLM's Visible Human Project. The device, created by HT Medical, Inc.
of Rockville, Maryland, is designed to provide visual realism,
physical realism, physiological realism, and tactile realism for
training physicians.
NLM had a strong presence at the HII99 meeting. NLM Board of
Regents Chair, Tenley E. Albright, MD, is Vice- Chairman of the FNLM
and was HII99 Honorary Chair. Among numerous other roles, she emceed
the HII99 banquet, which included a special tribute to Frances
Humphrey Howard, of NLM's Office of Extramural Programs, on the
occasion of her 85th birthday. NLM Director Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg
co-moderated a plenary panel on emerging technologies and spoke at a
session on consumer health information.
"Privacy" was a major theme throughout the conference
proceedings. Paul Harrington, legislative staff member to the U.S.
Senate Health, Education & Labor Committee, described
late-breaking developments from Capitol Hill relating to federal
health privacy legislation. Other sessions dealt with such topics as
"Underserved Populations" and "Law, Cyberspace and Medicine."
For additional information about HII99, contact the Friends of
the NLM at 202-462-0992, or at http://www.fnlm.org/ .
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