Transcript Technologies for Clinical Settings II

TECHNOLOGIES FOR CLINICAL SETTINGS II
Web-Based Tools
Constant Change
 The landscape of specific web tools available
is constantly changing
 Learning to identify and evaluate tools to
meet needs in your professional lives is the
important skill
 Learning about and using the available tools
now can help you find and use tools more
efficiently in the future
Patient Privacy
 As a physician, it’s important to keep patient
privacy and HIPAA compliance in mind when
using web tools
 Web tools are never meant to hold
identifiable information about patients
 Personal health information should always be
encrypted and stored in a manner compliant
with HIPAA regulations
The Tools
Everything Google
The Rest
•Advanced Google
•Evernote
•Google Scholar
•Dropbox
•Google Books
•RSS
•Google Calendar
•Google Docs
Google 101
 Turn your question into
a statement
 Lincoln was
assassinated by
 grass is green because
 +salsa +chips -dance
 Salsa and chips not salsa
dance
 ~women ~combat
 Searches for women,
females girls and
combat, war, battle
 “quotes for phrases”
Examples from Brett Spencer, University of Alabama
Advanced Search
 In case you forget how, the advanced search
page gives you most of these choices and
more
 Search within a site or domain
 Search for a page within nih.gov
 Search only within .edu and .gov sites
 Search within a certain time frame
 Search for PDFs, Powerpoints, and others
Google Tricks
 Colon searches
 define:culture, weather:Boston, time:London
 Calculations
 (160/17)*25
 Conversions
 2 tablespoons in ounces
 World Facts
 Population of Russia
 Flights
 Delta 655
Examples from Brett Spencer, University of Alabama
Google Scholar
A search engine designed to only search for scholarly materials on the web.
•Connect through the Biomedical Library website to get full-text links
Google Books
Book search engine
•Allows for reading of
some books completely
online or through
download, usually old,
public domain books
•Allows previewing of
others
•Searches full-text of
books
•Helps find the book you
need in a library
Google Blog Search
Helps you discover
what people are saying
online by searching
blogs
•Search for what
doctors are saying
about things like EHRs
•Search with the
~physician term to find
out specifically about
tools in your context
Google Specialty Searches
Google Docs
Suite of online word processing, presentation, and
spreadsheet applications designed for easy sharing
and collaboration among groups
Documents
 Interface much like
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Microsoft Word
Allows sharing, multiple
people can be allowed to
edit or view a document
in real time
You can roll back to
previous versions if you
don’t like edits
Grab a link to publish
freely on the web
Not as many formatting
choices as Word
Other Available Doc Types
Presentations
Spreadsheets
+ Forms
•Create a form and send it in email or post a
link, the results will be filled into a
spreadsheet for you, and reports are
available
Google Calendar
Keep up with your schedule on the go, sync with your mobile device, share
calendars with friends or colleagues
Evernote
Note-taking application
•Available on PCs, Macs, and
most mobile devices, but also
through a web interface
•Syncs between all devices and
the web
•Takes text notes, picture
notes, voice notes, and accepts
pdfs
•Searches full-text of images
and pdfs
Dropbox
File syncing application
•After installing Dropbox,
drop any file into a Dropbox
folder on your computer, or
upload a file on the website,
and it will be available on any
other computer/device on
which you install Dropbox,
also on the web
•Shared folders allow groups
to share files and documents
by simply dropping a file into
a folder
RSS
Really Simple Syndication
RSS Uses
Subscribe to
•Blogs/websites
•Journals
•Newspapers/Magazine
s
•Podcasts
•Searches
Finding Web Tools
 Talk to people doing the same kind of activities
about what they use
 In addition to talking to colleagues personally, you can
throw out questions on social networking sites if you’ve
built up a network of professional contacts who share your
interest
 Use your new found Google skills
 Search to see if other physicians are facing the same
problem or have the same need
 If you have heard of one tool that does not quite meet your
need Google “The Tool vs” (For example, Dropbox vs) to see
what other people are comparing it to online
 Keep up
 Find magazines, blogs, or people to follow who talk about
these kinds of things and follow along
Assessing Web Tools
 Does it meet my needs?
 Will it fit easily into what I do?
 Does it threaten privacy?
 Is it easy to use?
Discussion 1
Adopt a web-based tool that you did not
previously use, and use it in an educational or
professional context for one week. The tool can
be one described here, or you can identify a
tool to suit your needs. Describe why you chose
the tool and how you used it. How did it meet
or fail to meet your expectation? Will you
continue to use the tool?
Discussion 2
Describe a problem or need that you might face in
your career that might be solved with technology.
Propose a solution using any existing technology
or tool. Explain how you found your solution and
your reasons for choosing it.
Example: You are a member of a group who share a medical specialty and you
want to have a journal club to discuss advancements in your field, but you are
not geographically near. Would you propose using a blog with summaries and
comments? A wiki? Online forums? Chat rooms? Video conferencing? Google
Docs? Mailed correspondence? Mail is slow, but video conferencing and chat
require that everyone be able to attend at the same time across many time
zones. How did you find your answer, and why did you choose it?
Andrea Wright, Technology Librarian
[email protected]
251-461-1424
Biomedical Library Room 213