The National Library of Medicine: Accelerating Discovery, Delivering Information, Improving Health
Authors: Patricia Flatley Brennan
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2016)

Ideas and Opinions6 December 2016The National Library of Medicine: Accelerating Discovery, Delivering Information, Improving HealthPatricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhDPatricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhDFrom the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/M16-1737 Annals Author Insight Video - Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD In this video, Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, offers additional insight into her editorial, "The National Library of Medicine: Accelerating Discovery, Delivering Information, Improving Health." SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail For almost 200 years, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the institutions that preceded it acquired and disseminated the knowledge base that supports clinical practice, funded and conducted the research that made sure that knowledge was available at the point of need, preserved the trail linking medicine's past to its present, and ensured that people everywhere had free access to current and relevant health information in a vernacular familiar to them.The NLM plays an important role in biological discovery and the success of new programs, such as the Precision Medicine Initiative. Its efforts accelerate discovery, maintain the infrastructure ...References1. Bodenreider O. The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): integrating biomedical terminology. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004;32:D267-70. [PMID: 14681409] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Doughty E, Kertesz-Farkas A, Bodenreider O, Thompson G, Adadey A, Peterson T, et al. Toward an automatic method for extracting cancer- and other disease-related point mutations from the biomedical literature. Bioinformatics. 2011;27:408-15. [PMID: 21138947] doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq667 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. Aronson AR, Lang FM. An overview of MetaMap: historical perspective and recent advances. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2010;17:229-36. [PMID: 20442139] doi:10.1136/jamia.2009.002733 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. Brennan PF, Bakken S. Nursing Needs Big Data and Big Data Needs Nursing. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2015;47:477-84. [PMID: 26287646] doi:10.1111/jnu.12159 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: From the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.Disclosures: Effective 15 August 2016, Dr. Brennan became Director of the National Library of Medicine. She has reported no conflicts of interest. Her form can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M16-1737.Corresponding Author: Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, Director, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 38, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894; e-mail, patti.[email protected]gov.Author Contributions: Drafting of the article: P.F. Brennan.Final approval of the article: P.F. Brennan.This article was published at www.annals.org on 16 August 2016. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement Annals Author Insight Video - Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD In this video, Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, offers additional insight into her editorial, "The National Library of Medicine: Accelerating Discovery, Delivering Information, Improving Health." FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byLeveraging the health information technology infrastructure to advance federal research prioritiesFoundationsQuery expansion using MeSH terms for dataset retrieval: OHSU at the bioCADDIE 2016 dataset retrieval challenge 6 December 2016Volume 165, Issue 11Page: 808-809KeywordsData acquisitionDatabasesHealth information technologyHeartInformation storage and retrievalLibrariesMutationPrecision medicinePublic policyScientists ePublished: 16 August 2016 Issue Published: 6 December 2016 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2016 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...