{"id":1528,"date":"2010-03-26T08:54:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T16:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2010-04-30T14:20:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T21:20:58","slug":"mla-symposium-e-patients-the-techno-cultural-revolution-of-health-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"MLA Symposium: E-Patients: The Techno Cultural Revolution of Health Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By\u00a0Patricia Hinegardner, Ryan Harris and Dixie Jones;\u00a0MLA &#8220;Librarians in the Trenches&#8221; Sub-committee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlanet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Medical Library Association<\/a> (MLA) is sponsoring a symposium, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/epatientsymposium\/\" target=\"_blank\">E-Patients: The Techno Cultural Revolution of Health Consumers<\/a>. It will be held on Saturday, May 22, 2010 from 10am &#8211; 4pm. The symposium is being held in conjunction with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlanet.org\/am\/am2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Annual Meeting of MLA<\/a> to be held in Washington, D.C. \u00a0<strong>Early bird registration ends on April 21st<\/strong>, so please register soon to take advantage of the low cost, great speakers and timely topic!<\/p>\n<p>One of the morning sessions, &#8220;Librarians in the Trenches,&#8221; will focus on two potential roles for librarians with regard to e-patients. \u00a0Janet Schneider, Chief of Library Service at the James A. Haley Veterans&#8217; Hospital in Tampa, Florida will be addressing the librarian&#8217;s role with the public. \u00a0Taneya Koonce, Assistant Director at the Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University Medical Center will be addressing the role of the librarian working behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to have brief scenarios from other institutions describing their experiences with these roles. We have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/epatientsymposium\/share.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>form<\/strong><\/a> located on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/epatientsymposium\/\" target=\"_blank\">symposium website<\/a> where you can enter your name, position, institution and a brief description of how you either work with e-patients or work behind the scenes with the resources\/records they use. <strong>The deadline for submission is April 1, 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Selected scenarios will appear on the symposium website after being reviewed by the &#8220;Librarians in the Trenches&#8221; sub-committee. Please consider sharing your experiences.<\/p>\n<p><em>Posted 3\/26\/10<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Patricia Hinegardner, Ryan Harris and Dixie Jones;\u00a0MLA &#8220;Librarians in the Trenches&#8221; Sub-committee The Medical Library Association (MLA) is sponsoring a symposium, E-Patients: The Techno Cultural Revolution of Health Consumers. It will be held on Saturday, May 22, 2010 from 10am &#8211; 4pm. The symposium is being held in conjunction with the 2010 Annual Meeting of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}