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         Obstacles to answering doctors' questions about patient care with
 evidence:    qualitative study


      Six obstacles were considered particularly salient by the investigators 
  and practising doctors: the excessive time required to find information; 
 difficulty  modifying the original question, which was often vague and open 
 to interpretation; difficulty selecting an optimal strategy to search for 
 information; failure of a seemingly appropriate resource to cover the topic; 
 uncertainty so that the search can stop; and inadequate synthesis of multiple 
 bits of evidence  into a clinically usefulstatement.




  Feds explore health net


 National Library of Medicine officials plan to ask information technology 
companies next week to submit ideas on how to build advanced networks that 
would enable physicians to access a patient's medical history, a capability 
that would allow health care professionals to treat victims of a disaster 
or other emergencies.




             Laptop Security


Perhaps a bit off the beaten
path, but since many of us use laptops for work and especially while on the
road and at conferences, this posting looks at a topic few discuss   or are
aware of - Laptop Security.  The attached document contains tips,  measures,
and at the end some documented examples of misfortune.




 The eHealth Developers’ 
 Summit
  2002
-- Nov. 6-8, 2002 Tempe, 
AZ

 The eHealth Developers' Summit seeks to catalyze the sustainable development,
 adoption, and dissemination of effective eHealth tools by leveraging the
collective expertise and vision of the most respected eHealth developers
in the world.



 You Should Have a Web Email Account


           Many people have only a single email address. Typically, they
will   use Outlook or Outlook Express to send and receive email. If you average 
 fewer than 2 messages a day, that's fine. But you can also maintain a   free
 web-based email address/account, and if you use email regularly, there 
are  significant benefits.




   Popcorn E-mail client release 1.15


   Popcorn is a freeware ultra-lightweight POP3/SMTP e-mail client.
  It is ideally suited for "on the road" mail access, for scanning, reading
 and sending mail over slow connections.




 Personal health records on the internet: a snapshot of the pioneers at the 
end of the 20th Century


Internet-based, 
personal health records have the potential to profoundly influence the delivery 
of health care in the 21st Century, by changing the loci and ownership of 
the record from one that is distributed among the various health care providers 
a patient has seen in his lifetime, to one with a single source that is accessible 
from anywhere in the world and under the shared ownership and control of the
patient and his provider(s). The current state-of-the-art for personal health
records is best characterized as 'beta releases'. 




   DHHS Proposes Changes to HIPAA Privacy Regulation


The US Department of Health
& Human Services (DHHS) has proposed major changes                to
the privacy regulations issued under the Health Insurance Portability   
             and Accountability Act of 1996. The proposed rule was issued 
 on March 21, 2002, and affects the HIPAA privacy regulations due to go into 
 effect in April 2003.  DHHS is accepting comments on the proposed changes 
 for 30 days after publication in the Federal Register, which is currently 
 scheduled for March 27.




 Power of information: closing the gap between research and policy. When
it comes to conveying complex information to busy policy-makers, a picture
is truly worth a thousand words


 A survey
of 292 state government policymakers finds that officials are overwhelmed 
by the volume of information they receive and have a strong preference for 
information that is concise and more relevant to current debates.
          

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