The utility of this tool is that you can now access your sonic.net or any other "Internet-Ready" e-mail account from any computer at any times from any location that has a browser and Internet access. You just go to the URL
Educational Technolology at Johns Hopkins University. A New President is
Installed.
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|| SearchEngines ||
|| Critical Analysis of Computers in Education || from The Atlantic Monthly
* This Practicum supported by a series of self-evaluation Quiz Modules based on the material and resources on or linked to this Site. The latest version of the Quiz Modules is located in the Site News section at the top of the Home Page. Take Quiz Module#1, ten multiple choice questions. Then try Quiz Module#2 twenty true false questions.
Module#3 has a slightly different format and pedigree.
*The Web Express is a Frames and Tables based TOC of this Site.
* New and NoteWorthy is an Summary of recent Library News, added Features and interesting Links
* If your browser supports and is configured for e-mail, you can Send the library a message directly. Otherwise, you can use this input Form.
° || Quikmail || is a new and unique feature of this site. You can Check or Send your personal mail, if you have an active account with sonic.net or other "Internet ready" ISP ,and you remember both your login and password. Enter sonic.net as your server if Sonic is your ISP.
http//www.sonic.net/~smcbooks/mail.html and enter your login name, your password, and the name of your E-mail Server. Sorry, you can not access AOL or WEBTV e-mail. But, the good news is that you can access the
|| QuikMail || URL address via AOL or WEBTV.
In fact you can access any TCP/IP e-mail server using || QuikMail || from this page if you know your mail server's name and if the server knows you and your password. Is that Neat or what? Sorry, but your AOL and many "free e-mail account" like hotmail.com are not 100% open to the Internet. UNIX "shell" accounts at itsa.ucsf.edu and elsewhere that use pine and elm are TCP/IP (Internet) ready and accessible via their POP3 and SMTP e-mail servers. Talk to your service administrator for the assigned names of their e-mail servers.
Here is a diagram, description, and Tech encyclopedia link of the most recent Network infrastructure upgrade at Sonic .
° Speaking of access, Lynn VanHouten, the Medical Librarian at Petaluma Valley Hospital, reports that her Medical Staff has 24 hr. T1 Internet access via a proxy server from their Library. Her facility enjoys reliable work-station maintenance, and the enthusiastic onsite support of her hospital administration and its Network and Information Services (IS) Supervisors and Staff.
Tools of the Trade
News You can Use:
"the true
craftsman knows his tools and how to keep them sharp."
Quiktakes and Quiklinks:
Medical Uses of the Net Conference from the Dept of Commerce as reported by Cybertimes 29 Oct.
Get a fast start with || QuikLinks || toQuality Sites many with Supported & Supporting Libraries and Information and Technical Specialist with well-earned reputations for
Service, Research and Education. At the 24 October Hopkins Symposium on Electronic Distance Learning , President Brody, M.D. set the tone:
" ...the imperative is to do our jobs better, faster and cheaper." || QuikLinks || Supported & Supporting Service Research Education. " ...the imperative is to do our jobs better, faster and cheaper."
The keynote speaker was Prof. Bert Obie a distinguished class-room teacher, and Vice-President of Academic Affairs, with responsibility for the online project, University of Illinois Urban/Champaign. He reminded his audience that UI.U/C was the birth-place of the browser(Mosaic) and Eudora at the || NCSA || just five years ago. He gave on online demonstration, using his laptop computer connected to the net, of interactive distance learning at work in his state. The text of his message was taken from real estate. In networking the key is Access, Access, Access: to Bandwidth, to Technology, to Content and Data, and to the People who can Integrate them. Obie points out the new paradigm in asynchronous online education "...is to build out of Silicon and Software, not Bricks and Mortar." The Seminar Summary was provided by the Provost Knapp who ironically noted that the traditional college class-room teacher/researcher/scholar who fails to meet the challenge and match the competition by embracing the networked computer as their new best friend and tool may soon be asked to "...do less with less for less."
Clearly, the challenge of the modern medical library is use a variety of technologies
Today, libraries subscribe to e-journals that are online, archived and indexed for searching. They use selected CD-ROM references, online computers and have class-rooms and are equipped to supply, service and support the mission of their patrons, their users, their institution and their community. Would you send your high school grad to a college or university that offered less?
In this section of the Teaching Carrel:Introduction to the Internet, we refer you to the News You Can Use: section and the UC News Service for the mission statement for the UC Digital Library Project, announced by UC President Richard Atkinson on Oct 14. The project will be headed by UCB Librarian,
|| Richard Lucier || . He is now at LPAI
|| Brody || of JHU demonstrates the baseball is not all the is happening in Baltimore. President Brody addressed a sophisticated audience about the history and the future of a globally connected market-place of ideas, products, services, currency exchanges, and financial instruments. For a business-like, no nonsense point-of-view about global communications and commerce, QuikLink to the where education about the Internet is now taking place at the
|| Welch Medical Library || at Johns Hopkins. On Friday, October 24, 1997, Hopkins presented a university wide, day-long, multi-media Symposium on Electronic and Distance Learning (SEDE) using RealAudio/Video for a || WelchCast ||. The presentation may be achived for later Internet access. For a demonstration of the presentation technology at work, use the WebExpress and go to the Infectious Disease presentation in the Medical Specialties section.
Who would be surprised that Osler has been taken off the bench and put into play via an Internet publication called the Osler Medical Journal by the Hopkins Medical Dept. House Staff. One segment is about the Internet as a medical tool. Use the WebExpress from this page to navigate to our Medical History section. Once there, click on the image of Osler!
Visit the UCLA MedLiband then read || Larry Weed || and Netlines in the BMJ. Weed is the father of the Problem Oriented Medical Record and S.O.A.P. UCLA MedLib
|| Larry Weed ||
We recommend that you open a window to the e-dition of || ABCs of Medical Computing || part of the ABC series from the BMJ. Also see the BMJ series || Collections ||
for accessing Netlines, Guide to the Internet, How to read a paper and Journalology. Search the BMJ using Excite.
|| CyberTimes Story of the Day || A 10/15/97 nytimes piece about Knowledge workers with links to the academics at Berkeley's new multidiscipinary School of Information Management Systems (the old School of Library Science) containing great faculty Web Pages including the U.C. University Librarian,Peter Lyman, Pamela Samuelson, an academic IP( Intellectual Property) lawyer at Boalt Law, UC Berkeley, who was recently named a MacArthur Fellow, and Marti Hearst who designs Web interfaces that are Tools not Toys and are dynamic, not standardized or shrink-wrapped. Some of the SIMS faculty contributed to the 3/97, Scientific American special edition on the
|| Internet ||.
In addition, news.com from C/Net has a || Newsmakers || section and sidebar has an extended interview with Samuelson including streamed RealAudio and a Quicktime clip.
|| QuikLinks ||
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|| It all Started with Columbus ||
|| Internet Scout Report ||
|| Computer Assisted Testing ||
|| Bayesian Analysis from the UK ||
|| Communicating Risk ||
|| MedicalQuackery & Fraud ||
|| Critical Thinking 101 || or
|| Is Critical Thinking in Critical Care? ||
Introduction:
The purpose of this section is to present a fun demonstration of
computer data files in a variety of formats for your enjoyment and edification. This Introduction to the Internet is a tool chest that contains search demonstrations, news resources, tips and pearls, and several examples of using a Form on a Web Page for data exchange with a Server. We like to think of the site as an interactive Swiss Army Knife.
The serious and sometimes dreary business of data analysis we leave to others to define and defend. Here we invite you to learn some terms, engage the technology, and make it a friend: an arrow in your quiver, not a thorn in your side.
Search stored files using keywords. Read the News and pickup some Pearls. Explore some full-text Libraries. Learn about the Internet without the chic, the geek or the Greek. Give us a Review of a Site we can use, a Critique of this Site, or a Request for Service using this input
Form. If you prefer, and if your browser supports e-mail, you can send us a message directly.
Here, no claim is made that raw data is Information, or that Information is the equivalent of Knowledge, Wisdom, Experience, or Intelligence; or that it is a substitute for Decision-Making and Action. This introduction is not a course in Informatics1
, a surrogate for a computer buddy, a substitute for a visit to your favorite bookseller, a replacement for a sympathetic ISP or network support staff, nor a simulation for learning about your machine and your applications. However, before piloting a plane or sailing a ship, fledglings usually attend ground school and then get an experienced instructor. That is also a good idea for the aspiring Internet " blue water" cruiser. At grade schools around the country kid and teachers are getting their "Internet Drivers Licenses" on NetDay. Practice your skills and sharpen your technique before you get into the game.
We have attempted to avoid the fatal disease called computerese, but modern the English language is a sponge that rapidly absorbs new language from science and terminology that the communications media then distributes as a global commodity. That fact has been given wings by the Global Information Infrastructure (GII), a U.S. administration initiative. Part of that initiative is the recent administration directive that PubMed and GratefulMed access to MEDLINE be make available to anyone, anywhere, anytime , at any pace, and at no cost to any user with access to the Internet. That directive is now a fact; another arrow has been added to the medical practitioner's quiver. And, it works from Antigua to Zaire and Timbuktu in between.
Information and Instructional Technologies (ITs) build around the Internet have put powerful tools in the hands of individuals, Medical Information Services/Management Information Services (MIS) departments and institutions. One of these
IT tools is the "search engine." Our tutorial begins by searching our own WebSite, then an entire server site, then the world's finest medical literature citation database, and finally the entire World Wide Web. For your interest
Yale and the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library has a selective medical internet database in the form of a directory. IT
Search the Sonic Site:
Sonic is our Internet Service Provider (ISP). To search all the web sites hosted on Sonic's server, click on Sonic and then enter your search terms into the form that accesses Sonic's search engine. For example, enter "Gude" (without the quotation marks) into the form at our site, and then the Sonic site. Compare and try to explain the different results.
Do a MEDLINE Search:
PubMed
is a search engine designed to query MEDLINE (TUTORIAL) , a medical literature citation
database with some abstracts at the National Library of Medicine. The
Related Articles feature of PubMed is unique, powerful and easy to use. This feature uses a word weighted, text scanning algorithm to automate the citation linking. Start with a PubMed Tutorial.
Search the World Wide Web:
The Encyclopedia Britannica has a new database search demo called the Britannica Internet Guide that partners with AltaVista.
At the ebig site, try searching on William Osler.
Google, AltaVista
and Northern Light.
are engines that search the entire World Wide Web. Using AltaVista try a search by entering " Sir Willam Osler".
Take the Searching Practicum at the Welch Library
What's New:
the Searching Practicum is designed by the office of Medical Informatics Education of the Welch Medical Library at Hopkins for Ist year medical students. There is a quiz at the end.
Power Point Slides An outline of a Medical Library Internet and Search Lecture Series from the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library at UCLA.
Read about the most recent scientific and technical developments from the UC System using the University of California NewsWire linked via the UC Presidential Office.
Read about the Lasker Medical Research Awards of 22 September from Johns Hopkins University Public Information Office Two of the three honorees were from Hopkins, one is Victor McKusick, the founder of modern medical genetics.
Link to the 15 Oct JAMA, NetSight: A Guide to Interactive Medicine. There you will find Genomic Medicine: Internet Resources for Medical Genetics.
Computer Pearls
Use the best quality 17'' color monitor you can afford. It is is long-term investment and is a component that will not soon become obsolete. The capability of having multiple windows open ,and in some cases simultaniously running supplimentary or complimentary applications, is a more time saver. Your eyes will appreciate 17"". Factoid: Last year, for the first time, more computers than Tvs were sold in the U.S.
The newer operating systems and applications, including Web
browsers need at lot of RAM. Together they may require more than 20 megs to avoid slow performance. Installing RAM is a cheap and fast upgrade for getting more miles and performance out of your present machine. If your car had an eight gallon gas tank and was stopping at every pump, would you rather upgrade the tank, or get a new vehicle?
One of the keys to productive computer use is access to bandwidth so you can get in, get on, and get out fast. Use an ISP that supports x2 or 56k Flex and ISDN. Kinko's supports ISDN and Zip media now. This is a now a world where businesses revisit and revise their plans and assumptions of last quarter, and then reload for the next quarter.
Academics on the Net:
Enjoy the feast as you follow the bit stream and search for the source of its files. The file stream of bits and bytes is formatted into
packets, packaged in a kind of addressed envelope TCP/IP, routed through a WAN neuro-like communication backbone to an ISP, sent across an ethernet LAN or telephone line to your modem and computer where they reassembled into files that are merged into documents and magically presented by your browser for your review.
Here is a fresh literary look at V. Bush
Search amazon.com for a recent book about Bush entitled Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century. If your have loads of bandwidth and patience there is a Bush Gallery of Photos
from Aachen, Germany. At that site, you will be presented
with a list of files on the server. The file names are in .html format, are
clickable and are context transparent and content rich.
Learn more about the Internet at Santa Rosa Junior College:
Visit a site at Stanford with an innovative balance of both Computing and Communicating.
Research both linked and served sites and file about Information Technology and Management issues from Berkeley's Professor Hal Varian and the Library SunSite. The educational, organizational, technical, economic, and legal frontiers of today and the beginning of the next century are being defined at institutions like these.
Medical Informatics has long sought the computer Holy Grail of developing the perfect "Expert" or "Artificial Intelligence" systems to support rational, clinical decision making as discussed in Computer Applications in Medical Care. For an explanation of medical AI we refer you to the print or to the electronic edition of the Textbook of Internal Medicine, by Kelley, 3d ed. 1997, Lippincott-Raven, and Chapter 48 by Dr. E. Shortliffe of Stanford's CAMIS Center. He authored the text linked in this section
Mike Hogarth, M.D. encourages your evaluation and your feed-back on this and other full-text medical publications posted at CRC, Medical Informatics, UCDMC. When visiting his site for the first time, you will request a login and password. They will then be issued to you at your e-mail address. Davis is also hosting the Site for the Internet Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association. They feature links to perl and cgi tutorials and resources. Mike has published a book called An Inernet Guide for Health Professionals. Here is a link on one of Mike's Presentations.
Emery University Medical Center's listing of Medical Libraries and Resource Sites is called MEDWEB and is worth a visit.
The Word is out:
First there was Moses; then there was Magna Carta; then there was Manifesto; now there is the Medical Website. Look for a new name, a new look, and new services soon. Currently, this is on online service for use primarily from your home, office or personal library. Unfortunately, the Medical Library itself has limited computer work-station
access and restricted printing resources. The good news is that these are problems with straight forward solutions that can be at least partially supplemented by past, present and future patrons and users of the library. We solicit your ideas and support. Our e-mail address is smcbooks@sonic.net. Note the link to a message about e-mail.
If you were you found Magna Carta interesting , search using the term "Avalon" on the Information
Technology Services "Harvest" site at Yale.
Now it is time for some hardcore science in the form of e-journals from "HighWire" site at
Stanford.
Because of the amount of text in this tutorial, we recommend that you printout a hard copy of this page and keep it for reference. Be aware that updates are frequent. You can also Select, Copy and Paste sections of text from this page to your favorite word-processor or text-editor. We have
included a Glossary of Internet terms for reference. This Glossary is made available courtesy of the nytimes.
Others are at the Welch Library, JHU ,
* and
Matisse & Internet Literacy Consultants,
* and C/Net,
* and
UCDavis for a browser glossary ,
* and
another UCDavis resource link ,
* and
is a UCBerkely Library Guide to the Internet,
* and is a UPenn Networking Guide and Glossary. Penn is the home of ENIAC.
* and
a Medical Internet Guide located at a private medical center.
* and
yet another glossary.
An online Internet dictionary is also available.
In addition, here is a list of Internet and Web references and guides assembled by the Santa Rosa Junior College Library staff. We has also included a Win98 glossary site.
Although the term "data" is not included in the glossary, it is an
important one. Remember, like media, data is a plural noun that takes a plural verb form: " ..the data in a computer are in various formats called files and may be part of a database with a predetermined file format called a record, or stored as a stand-alone document, like a note, that has no predefined structure or content." Searches may be for files, documents or records located on your drive, a CD-ROM, or a network connected server.
The purpose of this site is to show physicians in training the meaning of the term "data" by demonstrating files in action on a library based, electronic teaching carrel. We call this presentation our Internet Tutorial Module: Tools of the Trade. These pages can be thought of a documents that have hyperlinks in context that are guide posts and quick diversions. Each is a part of the journey assisted by http (the Web), ftp and e-mail. PubMed is one of the most popular MEDLINE search interfaces. Soon, you will be able to join a listserve e-mail group of those who want the latest news about the library and its growing services.
To those accessing this module from a location other than the Medical Library, we recommend that you install the QuickTime and LiveAudio plug-ins, and the RealPlayer and AdobeAcrobat Reader applications.
If you have a QuickTime plug-in, scan a 800Kgb .mov slide presentation
of Poverty in Calcutta the stuff of Mother Teresa's passion.
Today's information based economy is built around what we think of as Operating Systems, Applications and Data. However, computers fundamentally know about bits, bytes and files. Therefore, it is important to understand data file actions because they are to a computer what a verb is to a sentence. These actions include: writing, reading, formatting, executing, hiding, editing, saving, copying, faxing, sending, naming, moving, copying, deleting, displaying,
storing, linking, configuring. testing, verifying, updating, backingup, archiving, restoring, transmitting, converting, protecting, searching, encrypting, encoding, compressing, transcribing, converting, importing, exporting, attaching, e-mailing, encrypting, uploading, downloading and many others. These functions go far beyond what was formerly called "Basic Computer Literacy". Computer fluency by decision-makers and managers is particularly important because data and paper processing is expensive and time consuming. Together, they are 30% of a hospital's operational budget.
Speaking of budgets and decisions , here are some data.
But, for now, we are concentrating on the the practical uses of computer-based search tools to find and deliver medical information (data files formatted and displayed as a unified document) that can help solve problems, assist making medical decisions and serve as an aide in the delivery of
fast, efficient, and effective patient care. "Seek and Ye shall find... DayLight."
Where are the tapes? Who has the chart? What is the Hct? What is a 2x2 truth table? How do you calculate the dose? When is the next meeting? Why do we need to be connected to the Net?
It is no accident that we are specifically featuring asthma and diabetic ketoacidosis in this module's supporting Medical Specialties page. That is because they are common and cross medical care disciplines. That link and others can be found in the WebExpress menu at the bottom of this page.
Each link has a specific purpose that may not be immediately self evident, so explore. Some links are "dead-ends"; others are interactive; still others are linked to other computers, therefore, you must be "connected and online" to take full advantage of this teaching module. Beware, you can get
lost in a Web maze if you wander too far away for home base. Learn to use your browser's control buttons, menus and bookmarks.
Vannevar Bush has been called the Grandfather of the Internet, the NSF, and the Manhattan Project. He was the first professor of Engineering at MIT where he was later to become President. He called science and technology "the Unlimited Frontier", harness Big Science to the effort to win WW II, and was the author of the classic 1945 theAtlantic Monthly article
As We May Think. Here is the Atlantic Monthly version of their original article.
Vinton Cerf, a scientist now with MCI/WorldCom and one of the founding fathers of the net, has participated in the evolution of the Internet from an instrument of national security out of ARPA to an academic tool with the NSF to a
publicly available, commercially self-supporting part of the world's rapidly growing communication
intra-structure. You can find him on the BBC.
James Martin, a widely quoted corporate technical consultant and author, preaches the power of distributed, realtime computing to a power elite of already converted
decision maker. He views the Internet standards like client-server technology, TCP/IP and the Web as revolutionizing organizational structure and culture.
Organizations with suffix surnames like .net .org .gov .edu .mil and .com are hatching in batches. An example like Lexis-Nexis has given momentum to the Martin prophecy. Like Osler, Martin is much a man of and for his time; a literate advocate for reason, science and technology.
An example of "now on the net"
Forrester Research is a "state of the art" corporate Internet consulting firm whose expensive opinions about the Technology Products and Service Markets are widely quoted in the business press.
RealPlayer is a streaming audio-video application. It downloads
audio and video files, and begins playing them during the download. Freeware and commercial versions can be downloaded from
RealNetworks.
RealPlayer audio messages can be heard if RealPlayer has
been installed and your browser is properly configured.
Listen to Midi version of Chariots of Fire
from a remote URL.
Midi Music served locally
Listen to RealPlayer Chariots of Fire from a remote source by clicking on the link, or a local
commercial announcement from Sonic if you click on the ra28 icon.
See Acrobat Web publishing by the L.A.Times.
The tools used to create, maintain, and distribute this site include Linux, Apache, PERL, javascript, html, OS8, Navigator, Fetch, Tex-Edit, Eudora and others. Sonic Member Tools and Utilities Web Page design fundamentals for Medical Librarians.
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