Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 09:00:54 +0100 (CET)
From: "Oliver Obst" <obsto@wwupop.uni-muenster.de>
To: medibib-l
Subject: MEDLIB-L digest 28.Sept - 5.Okt
Liebe Medibibler!
Zukuenftig will ich versuchen, Ihnen regelmaessig Exzerpte aus der
Diskussionsgruppe MEDLIB-L zu mailen. Den jeweils abgedeckten Zeitraum
entnehmen sie bitte der Subject-Zeile.
Einige von Ihnen haben die Heidelberger Vortraege von Frau Eckes, Herrn
Dierig und mir nicht bekommen. Wenn Sie sich bitte melden wuerden, koennte
ich sie Ihnen noch einmal zuschicken.
Es gibt eine neue Liste, Sci-Tech Libraries, (siehe unten). Hat einer von
Ihnen Zeit und Interesse, zu subscribieren und herauszufinden, ob fuer uns
wichtige Infos dort gepostet werden?
Ihr Oliver Obst
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1 Neue Liste: STS-L
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4 Collection development
5 Recommended list of business/management books for the hospital library
6 Internet-Index auf dem Silverplatter WWW-Server
7 Miles Fidelman: "Life in the Fast Lane: A Municipal Roadmap for the
Information Superhighway" (long)
8 Listing of Multimedia sources
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 17:27:00 -0400
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 09:52:31 -0400
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Subject: Duplicate Exchange List
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From: Conan the Librarian <glennf@MCS.COM>
Subject: Collection development help results
~AHFS drug information (patrons call it the "Red book")
~Granduate Medical Education Directory (Patrons call it the "green book")
~Fellowship & subspeciality training programs directory : internal
medicine & pediatrics. 2d ed. Chatsworth, CA: Fellowship Information
Network. 1989 (latest edition! Would you believe it?)
~Am. Hosp. Assn. Guide
~Dictionary of medical & health terminology: Hebrew-English,
English-Hebrew. Ellen Feingold & Miriam Freier. Simon & Schuster, c1991
~Roget's international thesaurus
~ABMS Directory
~AMA Directory
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A favorite of mine is Martindale the Extra Pharmacopoeia. Excellent for
answering questions about side effects of drugs, and finding foreign
drug names. it's edited by James E. F. Reynolds and published by The
Pharmaceutical Press, London (1993). Probably pretty pricey.
Another indispensible is the AHA Guide to the Health Care Field. You are
probably familiar with this but if not, it lists large and small hospitals
all over the US and includes all sorts of information about each one. I think
it's around 90.00, but for Amer. Hosp. Assn members it's less.
************************************
Glenn, I assume you are using the Brandon list as well? I dont know how
large your library is but that is an excellent source to use.
**************************************
Dictionary of medical Symptoms, Lippincott, ISBN for the
third edition is:0-397-50882-4, 1990
USP DI, Vol 1 & 2 (much nicer than the PDR -and the
second volume is drug info in lay language)
0-913595-78-0, 1994
New York Public Library Desk Reference (for all those
weird requests that nothing else supports), Prentice-
Hall, 1993, ISBN: 0-671-85014-8
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Assoc.,
4th edition, 1994, ISBN 1-55798-243-0.
And while it's not really a reference material, Scientific American
Medicine (a looseleaf serial) is a terrific source with a textbook format
and the currency of a journal. I order that through my subscription
agency, but I can get the info if you're interested.
You might also consider some reference materials for the librarian -
books on the Internet, for example.
*********************************
Have you seen the paper:
"The best reference books in a medical school library: what your
colleagues say." Medical Reference Services Quarterly 9(4): 43-79,
Winter 1990.
ABSTRACT. Challenged with the task of keeping the reference
collection current and useful, the reference staff at the
Medical College of Wisconsin sought the opinions of their colleagues
at other medical school libraries as to what they valued most in their
reference collections. Thirty-nine librarians responded to the
questionnaire, listing 213 titles as "essential" for every reference
collection and 130 titles as "gems," or tools that may not be well
known, but were personal favorites. There was a consensus among the
responding librarians for recommending many standard reference tools.
However, there was also a surprising variety of tools mentioned by
only one librarian. The compiled lists should offer every medical
school library some valuable suggestions for developing their
reference collections.
I would add to the list Ed Krol's The Whole Internet: User's
Guide and Catalog, 2nd ed. O'Reilly & Associates, 1994.
********************************
I think I forgot to include the authors of the article on the
"best reference books."
Here they are: Nancy R. Johnson, Elizabeth Wu, Glynis Vandoorne Asu,
Molly Youngkin, and Kathleen Strube
authors of "The best reference books in a medical school library."
Med Ref Serv Q 9(4):43-79, Winter 1990.)
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Dear Conan: Do ya have the Medical and Health Information Directory 7th
ed. publ. by Gale It's around 400. also good to have is the Healthcare
Standards Directory publ. by ECRI $275.
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Glenn Ferdman, MLS
Head Librarian
Foundation of Record Education (FORE) Library
of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
919 N. Michigan Ave. Suite 1400
Chicago, IL 60611-1683
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 09:23:59 +0500
From: Lois Wyndham <wyndham@FHS.CSU.MCMASTER.CA>
Subject: Re: ? Health Care Administration Core List
There is an excellent list of 135 books in BIBLIOTHECA MEDICA CANADIANA,
1994, v15(3), p. 156-161. The author is Sharon Virtue, Librarian at
Doctor's Hospital in Toronto, Ont. and the title is "Recommended list of
business/management books for the hospital library." The emphasis is US
titles although there are many good Canadian and several British books listed.
Lois Wyndham
wyndham@fhs.csu.mcmaster.ca
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 09:58:00 EST
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Life in the Fast Lane: A Municipal Roadmap for the Information
Superhighway
By Miles R. Fidelman
Copyright 1994 The Center for Civic Networking. This article first
appeared in the Summer 1994 issue of Municipal Advocate, published
in Sept. 1994 by the Massachusetts Municipal Association.
"A country that works smarter; enjoys efficient, less-costly
government guided by a well-informed citizenry; produces high
quality jobs and educated citizens to fill them; paves a road
away from poverty; promotes life-long learning, public life and
the cultural life of our communities - this is the promise of the
National Information Infrastructure."
- The Center for Civic Networking, quoted by the White House in
The National Information Infrastructure Agenda for Action,
September 1993.
Why Should Local Government Care About the Information
Superhighway?
--------------------
A hundred years ago, lack of a railroad stop condemned many towns
to a lingering death. Thirty years ago, interstate interchanges
helped many communities to prosper, while those on back roads
stagnated. Now the "information superhighway" is coming. Will
your town be ready?
For communities that prepare, the information superhighway,
or National Information Infrastructure, will help streamline
internal operations of municipal government, improve delivery of
town services to citizens and businesses, reduce traffic
congestion and air pollution, bring new educational opportunities
to local schools, and help local businesses prosper in a global
marketplace.
What is the Information Superhighway, and Who's Building It?
---------------
To many, the information superhighway is nothing more than a
vague concept with lots of front-page press. Telephone and cable
companies promise "video dial-tone," 500 channels of movies, home
shopping, interactive video games and other services of dubious
value. The federal government's National Information
Infrastructure Agenda for Action promises "a seamless web of
communications networks, computers, databases, and consumer
electronics that =C9 will change forever the way people live, work,
and interact with each other." These pronouncements all imply
that the national information infrastructure is ill-defined, does
not yet exist, and will be built from scratch. In reality, the
system is far more concrete and mundane, and largely already
exists.
It is useful to view the national information infrastructure
as an extension of the electronic networks now used by
corporations, government agencies, universities, and other large
organizations. Over the past two decades, most large
organizations have built data networks linking all of their
computers. In some cases networking has extended industry-wide,
and has become central to the conduct of business: financial and
securities transactions routinely move by wire; reservations flow
from travel agents' terminals to airline, car rental, and hotel
computer systems. The national information infrastructure
promises the next logical step - ubiquitous data networking that
reaches every office and home in the nation - everywhere the
telephone reaches today.
The beginnings of the national information infrastructure
are already in place. More than 23,000 organizational networks
are now linked together in a global network-of-networks called
the Internet, which began modestly as a government-sponsored
research network. Twenty years and billions of public and private
dollars later, the Internet has become a vast and seamless
"telephone system for computers" linking commercial, government,
and academic networks. The technology used is mature and widely
available; properly designed networks are reliable and secure
from unauthorized access. In Massachusetts, perhaps 500,000
individuals, in almost all of our colleges, universities, and
high-technology corporations, use the Internet daily. Federal
agencies (ranging from the Department of Defense to the
Cooperative Extension Service), and an increasing number of state
governments (notably California, Texas, North Carolina, and
Maryland) use the Internet to disseminate legislative, job,
procurement, and other information.
Our challenge now is to build "electronic city streets" to
link homes, schools, libraries, hospitals, and small businesses
to this ever-growing information superhighway. Personal
computers, inexpensive local area networks, and decreasing
connection costs are bringing smaller and smaller organizations
into the Internet. Planned upgrades to telephone and cable
networks hold the promise of bringing seamless data service to
every desktop with a personal computer and, within a few years,
to every cable-equipped television set.
What Are the Local Benefits?
--------------
Along with the rest of the workday world, municipal government
has adopted computers for routine tasks. Even the smallest town
now has at least a few personal computers sitting on desktops,
and many town offices have at least rudimentary local area
networks. Mid-sized and larger towns are using inter-building
networks to provide access to central accounting systems; to link
computers for electronic mail; and to connect fire, police, and
ambulance dispatching systems; etc.
Significant new opportunities arise as municipalities begin
to link internal computer networks with external networks:
=20
- Electronic data exchanges and electronic funds transfers
are now common business practices; the paperless exchange
of requests for proposals, purchase orders, invoices, and
payments is a proven way to cut administrative expense. A
number of federal agencies routinely distribute RFPs
electronically; and the federal government is about to
initiate a government-wide program to support "electronic
commerce." Several states and municipalities have begun
to disseminate job listings and RFPs via the Internet.
=20
- Municipal agencies can reduce costs by sharing. In
Massachusetts, eleven regional "Automated Resource
Sharing Systems" support libraries across the state.
School systems increasingly use networks to access world-
wide educational resources ranging from university
faculty, to the Library of Commerce, to on-line images
from space.
=20
- Networks offer opportunities for increased coordination
between agencies. The U.S. Public Health Service, Howard
University's School of Social Work, and the Health and
Human Services Coalition of the District of Columbia are
piloting a "Community Services Workstation" to provide
integrated record keeping and coordinated case
management.
=20
- Businesses can conduct routine transactions by modem
(e.g., filing building permits) to reduce staff time as
well as downtown traffic congestion.
=20
- If a municipality keeps documents and data in on-line
form, it can easily provide electronic access via modem
and public terminals (e.g., in libraries). This can
improve service to residents while reducing demands on
staff time. For example, Minnesota Datanet provides on-
line access to statistical, demographic, and geographic
data around-the-clock. In Massachusetts, the city of
Cambridge has begun to provide municipal documents via
the Internet. The city of Boston has begun to offer
information through its own computer bulletin board. Both
cities have more ambitious plans for the future.
=20
- ATM-like machines can provide 24-hour service to
citizens, both at the town hall and at convenient
locations around town. In California, InfoCal kiosks
provide access to government services in malls and other
public places. In Massachusetts, the city of Newton is
planning a similar system.
What Are Some Other Benefits?
-----------------
Just as electricity, streets, and sewers are core infrastructures
that serve residents, businesses, and government alike - so too
is the information infrastructure a community-wide need. Proper
development of a community-wide information infrastructure is a
key tool for stimulating economic development and reducing
traffic congestion.
=20
- Networks provide a way for small companies and isolated
communities to reach global markets at very low cost. The
information infrastructure holds opportunities for
creating new jobs in a changing economy. In the small
rural community of Linton, North Dakota, 200 data
processing jobs were created at a satellite office for a
large Philadelphia travel agency.
=20
- Massachusetts is a key travel destination for members of
the academic and high-technology communities - markets
that can be reached effectively through the Internet.
Palo Alto, California, Boulder, Colorado, and Austin,
Texas, are already using the Internet as an inexpensive
way to disseminate tourism information.
=20
- "Telecommuting" holds major promise for reducing traffic
congestion, addressing air quality mandates, and
attracting or holding residents in professions amenable
to working from home (typically higher-income residents
who can add to a town's tax base). Diamond Bar,
California, plans to reduce government-related travel by
nearly 2,000 trips within two years using
telecommunications. The Diamond Bar City Net is expected
to attract state funds targeted for reducing government-
related travel as a compliance component of the Clean Air
Act. In Santa Cruz, California, the Intell-I-Center
telework center is being planned with the city's economic
development agency; a key purpose is to greatly reduce
the 20,000 commuter trips to San Jose.
How Do You Plan Your Town's Information Infrastructure?
----------------
"Electronic city streets" will be built largely by telephone
companies, cable companies, and electric utilities, driven by
their own agendas. There are, however, strategies that local
governments can use to influence this construction to maximize
community benefit:
=20
- Form a network planning committee. Without a vision and a
plan, nothing can be accomplished. Communities with such
committees often find local telephone and cable companies
very willing to collaborate toward shared goals. Many
school districts and libraries are already involved in
network planning and can provide the core of a town-wide
committee. This committee should focus not only on
internal networks and operations, but also on the broader
issues of ensuring that an appropriate information
infrastructure reaches every home and office in town.
Accordingly, even in larger communities with sizable
staffs, it is important that the committee include
residents and local business people. Massachusetts, with
its concentration of computer and telecommunications
firms, is blessed with a large pool of skilled and
willing volunteers to serve on such committees.
=20
- Plan internal networks and computer systems around
industry standards for interconnection and
interoperability, both to keep plans in line with product
availability and to maximize ability to exchange data
with residents, businesses, and other government
entities. In particular, plan systems around the Internet
standard "TCP/IP" communications protocols, which are now
a mature technology and a de facto industry and federal
government standard.
=20
- Look to cable television operators as likely network
providers. Cable networks are more suitable for providing
data service than currently deployed telephone networks.
The city of Fitchburg uses a cable-based institutional
network (I-Net) to link a multi-department Geographic
Information System. Lexington is in the process of
linking its schools to the Internet using an I-Net. In
Cambridge, Continental Cablevision provides city-wide
data networking and Internet access over its cable system
as generally available commercial offerings. Involve your
local cable commissioners in the planning effort.
=20
- Expect electric utilities to become major players in the
local information infrastructure as they deploy the
wiring needed for remote meter reading and remote load
management systems. These investments have very short
payback periods, putting electric utilities in a uniquely
advantageous position to deploy telecommunications
facilities. Municipalities with electric light
departments are in a particularly good position to deploy
fiber optic cables and become telecommunications players
in their own right.
=20
- Look into new wireless networking technology and services
for rural communities with dispersed populations.
=20
- Focus considerable attention on stimulating community-
wide availability of Internet connections for local
residents and small businesses. Within large
organizations, it typically costs well under $100 per
month for a 24-hour, high-speed "network wall plug,"
while the same connection can cost ten times as much for
a home or office with one computer. You can lower the
cost with data-over-cable offerings and emerging
telephone company services (notably ISDN and Frame
Relay), which can bring the cost to small users down to
levels approaching those available to large
organizations. Also look for ways to make very-low-cost
access available to all, including public terminals in
libraries and collaboration in local efforts to build
"FreeNets" and other public access systems.
=20
- Plan for your internal systems to connect to the
Internet. A single Internet connection can provide the
most cost-effective way to link your town's systems to
external networks, including library networks (which are
moving toward a consolidated, Internet-based model),
educational networks being developed by the state,
federal networks, etc. If your external link will support
applications with high reliability requirements (e.g.,
library card catalog terminals), plan for a redundant
connection. To protect internal systems and sensitive
data, plan for a "firewall" machine, and consider the use
of encryption (both are common practices for companies
that connect internal networks to the Internet).
=20
- Make use of your contractual power. For example, the city
of Seattle, Washington, has issued an RFP for development
of a "city-wide information highway" to serve both
internal needs and to provide services to all residents
and businesses. Seattle is seeking "an investor/developer
or group of investors/developers to build and operate a
telecommunications network, or information highway, in
the city [to] eventually provide two-way voice, data,
video and multi-media communication capabilities to all
the residents, businesses and institutions." The city is
offering inducements based on its internal use of
services, ownership of existing rights-of-way and
infrastructure (utility poles, conduits, and wires
supporting its electric light company), and the city
cable franchise. A similar strategy is available to
larger Massachusetts communities; smaller communities
could implement the strategy on a regional basis through
cooperative purchasing.
How Does a Community Protect Its Interests in the Regulatory and
State Planning Arenas?
------------------
The availability of local network services, at affordable prices,
will be the subject of many public utility commission hearings
and cable franchise negotiations over the next several years.
Much of this will occur at the state rather than the local level.
At a time when more Massachusetts cable franchises are coming up
for renewal than during any previous period, and
telecommunications companies are beginning major overhauls of
their under-the-street wiring, local authority is being shifted
to state and federal authorities. The National Communications
Competition and Information Infrastructure Act of 1994 (HR3636),
passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in June, would strip
local government of most of its authority over telecommunications
facilities.
To protect the interests of your city or town , it is
critical to become involved in state-level processes that will
establish telecommunications policy. To have a better chance of
affecting your community's telecommunications future, you should:
=20
- Use whatever influence the community has during cable
franchise negotiations to make town-wide data networking
a priority service.
=20
- Become active, both directly and through organizational
representatives, in the state public utility and cable
commissions.
=20
- Monitor pending federal legislation, which calls for
joint federal-state boards to establish policy in areas
that include universal service, equal access, and
interoperability. If this law is passed, position for
seats on these critical joint boards - directly, through
the state utility and cable commissions and through
organizational representatives.
=20
- Become active in efforts to ensure that all state
networks can be accessed through a single connection
between a town's internal network and the outside world,
and that funding is available for these interconnections.
The commonwealth is planning several major projects to
network schools, libraries, and state offices.
Municipalities should also begin pushing the state to
develop a standardized mechanism for electronic data
exchanges and electronic funds transfers between
municipal, county, and state governments.
What's Next?
------------------
Now is the time to start planning to take advantage of the
evolving National Information Infrastructure, and to take steps
to insure that your town is not left behind.
The following documents and organizations can provide help:
Background Documents:
----------
U.S. Dept. of Commerce. National Information Infrastructure
Agenda for Action (1993).
U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Making Government
Work: Electronic Delivery of Federal Services, OTA-TCT-578
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September
1993).
State Information Policy Consortium, National Information and
Service Delivery System: A Vision for Restructuring Government in
the Information Age (1992); available through the National
Conference of State Legislatures,1560 Broadway, Ste. 700, Denver,
CO 80202; (303) 830-2200.
Center for Civic Networking, A National Strategy for Civic
Networking: A Vision of Change (91 Baldwin St., Charlestown, MA
02129; (617) 241-9205, fax: (617) 241-5064, email:
ccn@civicnet.org).
Telecommunications Policy and Planning:
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National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors
(NATOA); Susan Herman (213) 485-2866.
Massachusetts Community Antenna Television Commission (the state
cable commission); Frank Foss, (617) 727-6328.
New England Cable Television Association, (617) 843-3418.
Center for Civic Networking, 91 Baldwin St., Charlestown, MA
02129, (617) 241-9205, fax: (617) 241-5064, email:
ccn@civicnet.org.
National League of Cities; Cara Woodson, (202) 626-3021.
U.S. Conference of Mayors; Kevin McCarty, (202) 293-7330.
Municipal Information Systems:
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Massachusetts Government Information Systems Association; Richard
Walsh, (617) 552-7085.
K-12 School Networking:
Massachusetts Telecomputing Consortium; Beth Lowd, (617) 621-0290
ext. 229.
Consortium for School Networking, P.O. Box 6519, Washington, DC
20035-5193; (202) 466-6296, fax: (202) 872-4318, email:
cosn@bitnic.bitnet
Library Networking:
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Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, A Strategic Plan
for the Future of Library Services in Massachusetts (Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, Board of Library Commissioners, Boston; (617)
267-9400, July 1993).
Miles R. Fidelman is president of the Charlestown-based Center
for Civic Networking. The center was instrumental in bringing
public access Internet terminals to the Cambridge Public Library.
Mr. Fidelman has spent twenty years applying computer networks to
a wide range of problem areas. He can be reached as=20
mfidelman@civicnet.org
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Miles R. Fidelman mfidelman@civicnet.org
President 91 Baldwin St. Charlestown MA 02129=
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Director of Civic Networking Systems 617-241-9205 fax: 617-241-5064
The Center for Civic Networking =20
Check out our Civic Network gopher and web servers: =20
at a unix prompt: gopher gopher.civic.net 2400
gopher URL: gopher://gopher.civic.net:2400/
web URL: http://www.civic.net:2401/
Information Infrastructure: Public Spaces for the 21st Century
Let's Start With: Internet Wall-Plugs Everywhere=20
Say It Often, Say It Loud: "I Want My Internet!"=20
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 13:33:15 -0700
From: VA Medical Center <vaarfay@CLASS.ORG>
Subject: A listing : Multimedia Sources
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The following is a listing of sources for multimedia and
interactive learning software and CDROM. Thanks to all those
who provided information.
Directories:
SOFTWARE FOR HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION: A RESOURCE CATALOG
1994
Learning Resource Center
Office of Medical Education
University of Michigan Medical School
1135 East Catherine
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0726
Contact: Dee
313-939-2233
Price: $50.00
DIRECTORY OF EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE FOR NURSING, 5th ED, 1993
by Christine Bolwell
National League for Nursing
350 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
212-989-9393
Price: $79.95
Biennial Publication
INTERACTIVE HEALTHCARE DIRECTORY (3 PARTS), 1994
Stewart Publishing, Inc
6471 Merritt Ct.
Alexandria, VA 22313
703-354-8155
Part 1: Videodisk $72.00
Part 2: CDROM $49.00
Part 3: CAI $54.00
Also markets: Bolwell's Directory of Educational Software
for Nursing
Companies/Associations:
Medical Interactive
Videodiscs for Medical Education
3708 Mt. Diablo Blvd, Suite 120
Lafayette, CA 94549
415-283-7995
American College of Radiology
1891 Preston White Drive
Reston, VA 22091
703-648-8989
Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
Research and Education Foundation
10201 Lee Highway, Suite 160
Fairfax, VA 22030 703-691-1805
FAX: 703-691-1855
Product: Laserdisk
Distributers:
Majors Electronic Media
1-800-633-1851
Contact: Cathy
Distributing some interactive software - will send out list
Williams and Wilkins Electronic Media
428 East Preston Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
401-528-4000
Software Marketing Corporation
9830 South 51st Bldg #A131
Phoenix, AZ 85044-9930
800-336-0182
Produces a catalog which includes some medical related software
Software:
Tauma one! Computer File: ATLS Training Simulator, 1990
by Bruce Argyle
Mad Scientist Software
Alpine, UT
801-759-6027
Stupor and coma computer file: an exercise in clinical problem
solving, 1987
By Edward Hoffer and G. Octo Barnett
Dept of Continuing Education
Harvard Medical School
Dist: Williams and Wilkins Electronic Media
Under Development:
Gericase (treatment of frail elderly)
Camille Motta
Tel and Fax: 703-369-3062
E-mail: pp000134@interramp.com