IFM Healthcare News
Maria J Grant
Chair, Information for the Management of Healthcare
(IFMH)
Salford Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Collaborative Research
University of Salford
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“By the way I think it’s a great idea to go electronic with the
newsletter”
“I think that this is the right way to go on
this, and congratulate the Committee on being forward thinking.”
Welcome to the first issue of IFMH Inform to be published solely in
its electronic format. We’ve been delighted with the positive
feedback we’ve already received from you – our subscribers – and with
the opportunity it has provided answers to specific questions about
the future of IFMH Inform. These have included questions about
password access for members – an issue we are currently investigating
– and whether it is possible to access a full electronic archive of
IFMH Inform. With the exception of the three most recent issues, IFMH
Inform is already available electronically from Issue 10 volume 1
published in 2000 from
http://www.ifmh.org.uk/inform/index.html We are also
in the process of digitising our archive so we hope to be able to
provide free access to the full back catalogue over the coming months.
In this issue…
The theme for this issue of IFMH Inform is
information literacy. The key paper focuses on library partnership
working between the Sourth West SHA and a medical library in Kenya.
It draws on the presentation given by Jean Newman and Emma Farrow
during the IFMH session at the Umbrella conference this summer (http://www.umbrella2007.org.uk/).
The session was extremely well attended and, in providing practical
information on how the charity Partnerships in Health Information (Phi
-
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/hosted/phi/),
encouraged many people to start considering the possibilities of
partnership working for themselves. I’m sure you’ll agree it makes
for stimulating reading.
Future content of IFMH Inform
IFMH would like to thank Kath Wright and her
colleagues at the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD),
University of York, for their sterling work in consistently producing
a high quality selection – and review - of recent articles of interest
to health professionals in their column Sidelines. Sadly, all good
things eventually come to an end and, having written the column since
the Autumn of 2000, CRD have decided to offer someone else the
opportunity to provide their perspective on what’s new and important
in the health management information sector. Could that person
be you?
For further details please contact Richard
Bridgen, Editor – Regular Features, on 01522 573 478 or email him at
For further details on how you can get involved
with a wider range of IFMH activities – including opportunities
relating to study days or contributing to the IFMH Inform editorial
team - please contact Maria J. Grant, Chair, on 0161 295 6423 or email
her at
IFMH Web site
In addition to the
regular web site updates – which has recently included copies of the
powerpoint presentation given by Jean Newman and Emma Farrow at the
Umbrella conference (http://www.ifmh.org.uk/studydays.html)
– IFMH seeks to constantly improve the usability of its web site.
To this end, please
note that the web address to subscribe to IFMH Inform has changed to
http://www.ifmh.org.uk/subscribe.html Please update any bookmarks
you may have.
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