Understanding Healthcare Information HLG Conference July 19th-20th 2010 Lyn Robinson lyn@soi.city.ac.uk What does a healthcare information specialist need to know? Something about information resources? UCL Medical School Library QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. data-protection privacy freedom-ofinformation personal-profile security identitytheft ebooks 3G iPad smart-phones books libraries digital-collections repositories digitization avatar apps open-data gps datavisualization social-network-services socialmedia censorship preservation centralizeddata-collection database-state collectionmangement meta-data semantic-web classification tags thesauri mashups search retrieval users information-architecture 3Dgraphics 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. 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. Drivers for Change • • • • technology economics politics society The ipad • 3 million sold in 80 days since US launch • the end of printed materials? • the death of the library? • no need for information specialists? 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