Nurses And Doctors

New Jobs on MLANET 10/05/2011

Admin — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:29:58 +0000

Newest postings (October 5, 2011): Associate Provost and Director, Health Sciences Library, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Division, Chicago, Illinois; Non-Tenure Track Faculty Position Vacancy, Outreach Liaison, Services Division, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland; Clinical Planning Consultant (Library Systems), Qatar. The MLANET job page is updated weekly on Wednesdays. Jobs appear chronologically, with the most recent postings at the top of the page, and then alphabetically by state. (Source: Medical Library Association News)

NLM Celebrates National Medical Librarians Month

Admin — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:30:07 +0000

The Medical Library Association (MLA) has declared October as National Medical Librarians Month. As part of this celebration, the NN/LM SCR is proud to highlight the following four SCR funded projects and the librarians whose hard work made these programs successful.

Senior CHAT (Consumer Health Awareness Training) Institutions: Southeastern Louisiana University and Sims Memorial Library/Baton Rouge Nursing Library; Project Staff: Mary Lou Strong, Jean Caswell and Ladonna Guillot
Digitization of the Aristides Agramonte Collection on Yellow Fever Institution: Louisiana State University Health Science Center New Orleans; Project Staff: Debbie Sibley and Molly Knapp
Early Medical Journalism of Louisiana: A pilot project for the preservation and sharing of nineteenth-century medical publi…

New Jobs on MLANET 09/28/2011

Admin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:30:00 +0000

Newest postings (September 28, 2011): Library Department Head in the Sciences (Two Positions), University of CaliforniaDavis Library; N/T Track Faculty, Associate Director for Library Applications and Knowledge Systems (Librarian II or III), University of MarylandBaltimore, Health Sciences and Human Services Library; Intellectual Access and Metadata Services Librarian, The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. The MLANET job page is updated weekly on Wednesdays. Jobs appear chronologically, with the most recent postings at the top of the page, and then alphabetically by state. (Source: Medical Library Association News)

Easy Medical Billing Software

Admin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 05:30:06 +0000

Running and managing a medical office is tougher than you think. Multiple data bases, multiple servers, super bills, synchronization, multiple log-ins, reports, backups, workstations - these are only a few of the things you need to take care of if you want things running smoothly in your practice. And on top of all that, there are also multiple codes to remember and refer to! How do you cope with all these?

Easy medical billing software services have been developed to do just that. Built to streamline the medical billing process, easy medical billing software programs allow practices to connect to multiple locations and data bases in one place. And although this particular feature is a feat in and of itself, the easy medical billing software programs available in the market today do more than just that. They also create simplified access to important codes to which medical billing must comply.

Medical billing is a type of profession that calls for a lot of dealing with codes. A professional medical biller would have to be very familiar with medical billing codes in order to do a good job. But even the best in the business will make mistakes sometimes. Easy medical billing software helps reduce such mistakes and increases accuracy by nearly 100 percent.

Easy medical billing software makes the 2005 CPT code book, updated CPT codes, ICD.9 codes, and all other codes easily accessible. What’s more these codes can be accessed through the easy medical billing software through the same location as the rest of the billing information. They are also updated automatically every year.

During his reelection campaign where he visited the Midwest, President George W. Bush called medical billing as the best form of “defensive medicine.” His talk with several medical practitioners in several locations led to the reference of “preventative medicine.” According to many specialists in the medical field, effective management of records and compliance to codes has become a type of preventative medicine in its capacity to protect both the client or patient and the practice.

Codes are a vital part of the medical billing industry. And accessing them on an easy medical billing software helps ensure that the medical office not only run smoothly but makes its billing processes secure as well.

Many of the benefits that the medical field are experiencing today come from developments in the easy medical billing software. Data base easy medical billing software allows business to electronically manage billing and medical history information much more efficiently.

EDUCATION: Spotlight! on NLM Resources -Wed. Sept. 28, 1:00 Mountain Time, 2:00 Central Time -Diabetes Resources

Admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:29:59 +0000

This Spotlight! session focusing on National Library of Medicine Diabetes Resources, will be presented by Marty Magee. Taking the one-hour class and completing the exercises and class evaluation makes you eligible to receive 1 Medical Library Association Continuing Education credit. This online training is FREE. Register online at http://tinyurl.com/mcrclasses (registration is not required but is appreciated).
URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr/ Equipment: connection to the Internet and a phone, Login: as a guest with your first and last name. Instructions to connect to the audio will show up once you’ve logged in. Captioning will be provided. Questions to mmagee@unmc.edu. (mm) (Source: Midcontinental Region News)

Call for MLA ‘13 Continuing Education Course and Symposia Ideas

Admin — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:29:58 +0000

Call for MLA ‘13, ICML, ICAHIS, and ICLC Continuing Education Course and Symposia Ideas: Submit ideas for thought-provoking and innovative courses and symposia to offer at the federated and international meeting in 2013. Ideas are due December 16. (Source: Medical Library Association News)

Elizabeth Brice obituary

Admin — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 05:29:58 +0000

My wife, Elizabeth Brice, who has died of multiple sclerosis aged 54, fought a long campaign for the medical use of cannabis, based on her experience of the drug’s alleviation of her MS symptoms. Thanks to her dedication, the cannabis-based drug Sativex is now available on prescription for MS sufferers across Europe and in north America.Elizabeth was born in Didsbury, Manchester. She went to Loreto grammar school, Manchester, studied classics at Oxford University and went to Yorkshire Television in 1981. She worked on Where There’s Life with Miriam Stoppard and became a producer at the age of 25. She filmed around the world and then, at 26, was diagnosed with MS.This was not just a disease, but also a challenge: “Disabled people have exactly the same reasons for wanting children as anyo…

Goodbye from Alison

Admin — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:30:14 +0000

This post is to say goodbye and thanks for your friendship and support during my 3+ years with NN/LM PNR. This is my last week in the office. I have accepted a position as Clinical Informationist at The Ohio State University, Prior Health Sciences Library, and will begin work there in mid-October. I look forward to exciting new professional challenges and being closer to family.
It’s been quite an adventure! Three months after starting here, I found myself on a cattle ranch outside of Butte, Montana with Laurel Egan and Gail Kouame. They don’t prepare you for that in library school. Big Sky Country is an amazing place where, as I learned, deer and antelope actually do play. It is also home to champion tennis ball-chasing dogs:

and to some of the best health sciences librarians…

Messages from a medical library in the earthquake-prone zone. - Sakamoto K, Minamidate Y, Nagai T.

Admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:30:03 +0000

On March 11, 2011 at 14:46 (Friday), a massive magnitude-9.0 earthquake attacked large areas of northeastern Japan, including Sendai City. The huge earthquake generated catastrophic tsunamis, leading to unprecedented disasters in the seacoast areas of the … (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))

Resources at the Medical Library for Nurses

Admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:30:00 +0000

(Source: BWH News)