What’s new with MedlinePlus, Go Local, and nihseniorHealth Medical Library Association

What’s new with MedlinePlus, Go Local, and NIHSeniorHealth

• Medical Library Association

• May 14 - 19, 2005

• San Antonio, TX

New for MedlinePlus

• Nearly 500 million page views per month

• Over 51 million unique users per month

• New features

• Animated tour in Spanish
• Resource page for Librarians and Trainers
• American Hospital Association Directory
• Health Check Tools
• Organizations listed by topic

• Collaboration with AARP and VA

Tour en español

For Librarians and Trainers

• Tours

• Two sample tutorials (English & Spanish) for demos when no Internet connection is available

• Links to MedlinePlus

• Health topic - Evaluating Health Information
• Guide to Evaluating Health Information

• Public Libraries and Community Partners (from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine)

Find a Hospital

Health Check Tools

• Quizzes, calculators, and self-assessments

• Listed under “Health Check Tools” on each topic

• Entire list also available from Health Topics tab

• Also in Spanish

Organizations by topic

• List and links to organizations producing consumer health information

• Find link on “Other Resources” (home page or tab at top)

Collaboration: AARP

• AARP launched health portal on August 23

• Licensed Healthwise, Medicare Interactive

• Customized links in Healthwise to MedlinePlus health topics

• Home page links to tutorials, directories, clinical trials, NCCAM

• Reference/Web staff trained volunteers

AARP Health Guide

MedlinePlus and My HealtheVet

Growth in MedlinePlus use

American Customer Satisfaction Index results

• Tracks trends in customer satisfaction
• Provides benchmarking data
• MedlinePlus: consistently has highest government score

Go Local Update

• Go Local project links local services from health topics

• 19 Go Local areas in various stages of completion

• Sites either independent or NLM supported

• NLM Management system up and running

Keys to success

• Institutional/organizational commitment

• Dedicated staff

• Services, not health information

• Vigilance

• Community outreach and partnerships

• Feedback, evaluation and improvements

Go Local NN/LM Funding

• Must be an NLM-approved Go Local project

• Local organization must fund the half-time staff requirement.
• One time funding up to $25,000 will be available to each go local participating area.

• Prerequisites

• NN/LM Full Member
• NN/LM Affiliate Members must:
• Partner with a Full Member, or
• Have a health sciences librarian working on the project.

Current Go Local Projects

• Go Local sites in various stages of completion

MedlinePlus Go Local Resources

• Frequently Asked Questions

• Participation Guidelines

• NLM Hosted System Training

• Vocabulary

• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

• golocalresources.html

Go Local Input System

Navigation from MedlinePlus

Navigation in Go Local

Go Local Indiana page design

National directory information for non-Go Local states

NIHSeniorHealth The Web Site for Older Adults

• http://nihseniorhealth.gov

NIHSeniorHealth

• New features

• printer-friendly version allows users to print full topics or selected chapters
• updated accessibility buttons provide more text size choices and clearly show whether contrast and speech are on or off
• a new message reminds users to turn off their browser pop-up blocker
• Exercise stories from Seniors

Exercise Stories

New Topics

• Taking Medicines

• Diabetes

• Shingles

• Sleep and Aging

• Low Vision

Questions??