The Diabetes Project Team Care for Disabled Children Pediatric Echocardiogram Vascular Ischemia Enhancing Access to Health Information Edwin Holtum, M.S. Increased access to health information has been shown to play a vital role in optimizing patient diagnosis and treatment. The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences is extending health information resources to the remote testbed sites by providing access to several important health databases and by providing electronic document delivery services.
Databases are searchable at workstations located at each of the community hospitals.
After health professionals use the databases to identify which articles they want, Hardin Library staff members scan the articles and transmit them via the Internet to workstations in the testbed hospitals. Providing remote access to pertinent databases and offering a fast and efficient document delivery system, the project attempts to closely duplicate the resource-rich environment of a major health sciences research library at the local level. The use of these resources will be monitored in order to identify which elements of the project are most important in creating and sustaining this environment. Visit Healthnet by clicking here . The University of Iowa.