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Understanding Healthcare Information
HLG Conference July 19th-20th 2010
Lyn Robinson
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What does a healthcare information specialist need to know?
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Something about information resources?
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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
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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.
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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.
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Drivers for Change
• technology• economics• politics• society
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The ipad
• 3 million sold in 80 days since US launch
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• the end of printed materials?• the death of the library?• no need for information
specialists?
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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
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