Most of the data
provided here was compiled from various resources on the
Internet while I was a "newbie" and is intended
to provide new comers with a quick way to get a brief
overview of the wonderful resources available to them via
the Internet. Happy surfing! Jeffrey R. Cates, DC
cates@essex1.com
Those new to the Internet are referred to as
"Newbies". There are several books available
(Internet for Dummies & etc.) that will help
introduce you to the nuances of "web surfing".
However, much of the information is available on the
Internet itself ... of course that doesn’t help if
you don’t know how to access it!
Once you have accessed the Internet (as you obviously
have), I recommend that you visit a site for Newbies and
learn "Netiquette" so that you can learn to
employ the common rules of courtesy while surfing the
net. Some such sites to visit include:
http://www.learnthenet.com/
Remember, when interacting with people via a keyboard,
they can’t hear your tone of voice, the inflection
of your voice, or see facial features that so often give
non-verbal clues to the meaning of our words. It is
probably wise to avoid sarcasm as it is often
misunderstood. When visiting a new chat site or joining a
new e-mail or news list it is probably best to simply
watch it for few days to a week before participating.
Writing something offensive to someone over the
Internet is called a "flame". It is probably
best to simply avoid such exchanges as they rarely lead
to anything productive and they simply slow up the
Internet by taking up band width.
Medical Data Base
Search Engines:
There are several free Medline services online. Most
offer free access to the abstracts of the articles you
wish to review and some charge a fee for copies of the
complete article. If time is not of the essence, you can
print the references and request the articles from your
local library. Medline is best used to research medical /
chiropractic topics that are too specific to be listed on
a regular search engine. Articles from many medical
journal are indexed including the JMPT. This is a
wonderful resource that allows you to do research at the
touch of a button. A free Medline search engine is
available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
An alta vista search engine and a link to quick
Medline search engines are provided at:
http://www.ACCC-chiro.com
. For convenience you may like to make this page your
default home page.
E-MAIL
It is very easy send and receive e-mail over the
Internet. and most likely you received an e-mail program
with your ISP setup, Netscape Mail, Microsoft Mail or
Eudora freeware. There are other e-mail programs
available. You can check out other E-mail Clients at
Tucows or Nonags.
With an e-mail, you can send any type of binary file -
sound, graphics or program file as part of a message.
These are called e-mail attachments. To attach files to
e-mail messages, you usually point to the file you want
to send in a pop-up dialog box and clicking on it and it
is inserted into the email message. This sometimes handy
as some servers have difficulty with long e-mail messages
causing them to be garbled or unreadable. sending a
document as a file attachment overcomes that difficulty.
If you do a lot of e-mail you will want to learn to to
filter your mail. you can set up your e-mail client to
place mail into different folders automatically, thereby,
simplifying the process of sorting your mail. For
example, you might want all messages from the
chiropractic mailing list into a special file.
E-MAIL MAILING LISTS
Mailing lists provide a forum for interaction and
debate for people with interests in a common topic such
as chiropractic. If you join a mailing list and send a
message to the list address, everyone on the list will
receive that message. Anyone may post a reply to the list
for further discussion. Some people participate in
discussions and some only read the messages or
"lurk". There are several chiropractic mailing
lists that you can access from chiro.org. The
"chirosci list" is my favorite, it is a
professional moderated list that focuses on the
scientific developments and concept in chiropractic
Again, you can check out this and several other lists at http://www.chiro.org .
To subscribe to Chirosci-list send an e-mail to
"Majordomo@silcom.com" with the following
command in the body of your email message: subscribe
chirosci-list.
NEWS GROUPS
Your browser should also have the ability to access
"news groups". These groups are like public
bulletin boards where messages are posted for all to see.
There are many health oriented newsgroups such as:
sci.med.Informatics
sci.med.Orthopedics
sci.med.Radiology
sci.med.Occupational
sci.med.Nutrition
These are just a few of the groups that may interest
you, there are hundreds more available.
- HTML -
If you are interested in creating your own web pages, you will
have to either learn HTML (hyper text markup language) or use a
web page editor like Front-page or Hotdog. If you plan on
creating a lot of pages or maintaining a site I recommend you
purchase such an editor. If you wish to just have a plain page on
the web Microsoft has an HTML editor add on for MS word that can
be downloaded for free on the Internet. There are other resources
available, many of them for free or nominal cost. Many useful
programming and development resources can be found at -
Tucows ( http://www.tucows.com
) , Nonags ( http://nonags.com
) these sites also containing many other useful freeware and
shareware. .
-Resources and Useful Sites-
http://www.pointcast.com -
Pointcast -great program that gets the news you like &
it’s free!
http://www.essex1.com/people/cates/ - Well I’m biased, but I like my site!
http://www.ACCC-chiro.com - Great links page for many resources
http://www.chiro.org - A great chiropractic site with many resources.
http://www.panix.com/~tonto1/dc_guest.html - Chiropractic Online Today - another good chiro site.
Here are a just a few of the things you can do on the
Internet: At the ACCC site you can find links to download the ICD
9 codes. There is a medical dictionary add on for your word
processor that will help you with spelling of medical terms. You
can find links to medical and chiropractic clip art. Exam forms
and treatment protocols are available online. You can participate
on on line discussions. You can request advice on difficult cases
on a discussion list or mail list. You can post your own page or
information.
FTP and Downloading Files
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, a methods of
transferring files over the Internet. FTP was the most common
method of transferring files before the Web became popular. It is
still important because, whereas http (hyper text transfer
protocol) is used receive information and files, FTP can be used
to upload files or send to another computer such as a server. So
if you create Web pages on your PC, an FTP program is necessary
to transfer these web page from your PC to the Internet server
where your pages can then be accessed by Web surfers. Cute-ftp
and ws-ftp are popular FTP clients. You can find theses at Nonags
or Tucows or by using your search engine! Many files are
downloaded in a *.zip / "Zipped" or compressed format.
This allows you to download a lot more data in a much shorter
time but it also requires you have another little program to
"unzip" the files once you have them on your hard
drive. Once again you should be able to find a program like PKzip
or WinZip under utilities at Nonags ( http://nonags.com/nonags/main.html
) or
Tucows ( http://www.tucows.com
).
INFORMATICS
(from sci.med,informatics)
Medical informatics concerns computer applications in medical
care. Biomedical Informatics is an emerging discipline that has
been defined as the study, invention, and implementation of
structures and algorithms to improve communication, understanding
and management of medical information. The end objective of
biomedical informatics is the coalescing of data, knowledge, and
the tools necessary to apply that data and knowledge in the
decision-making process, at the time and place that a decision
needs to be made. The focus on the structures and algorithms
necessary to manipulate the information separates Biomedical
Informatics from other medical disciplines where information
content is the focus.
The focus of this newsgroup is the discussion of the grand
challenges facing medical informatics today. Appropriate topics
include, but are not limited to: Medical Information Standards
(e.g. UMLS, HL-7), Medical Informatics Training, IAIMS
(Integrated Academic Information Management Systems),
Computerized Medical Records, Clinical Information Systems
(including radiology, laboratory, pharmacy, nursing, etc.),
Physician Order Entry Systems, Computer-Aided Instruction,
Medical Expert Systems, Nursing Informatics, Announcements of
Interest, e.g. conferences, journals, societies, National Library
of Medicine, Health Information Networks, Medical Software
Reviews, Research Funding Opportunities, Policy Making,
(including procurement and certification of medical software)
Medical Software Engineering, Cultural / Sociologic Changes,
Medical Software Security, Telemedicine, Veterinary Informatics
For those that wish to learn more about medical informatics;
Popular textbook include: Medical Informatics by Shortliffe and
Perreault. Popular journals: Journal of the American Medical
Informatics Association, M.D. Computing, Methods of Information
in Medicine, Computers and Biomedical Research Other sources:
Yearbook of Medical Informatics, Proceedings of Symposium on
Computer Applications in Medical Care, MEDINFO Proceedings Good
Review article: Greenes RA. Shortliffe EH. Medical informatics.
An emerging academic discipline and institutional priority.
JAMA.263(8):1990 Feb 23. The AI in Medicine FAQ: ftp://lhc.nlm.nih.gov/pub/ai-medicine/FAQ
. A Few WWW Home-Pages: Stanford: http://www-camis.stanford.edu/
Yale: http://paella.med.yale.edu/
NASA 3D Reconstruction:
HL7 - HL7 (Health Level 7) is a specification for
electronic data exchange between health care institutions,
particularly hospitals, and between different computer systems
within hospitals. It defines standard message types (for example,
admit a patient, report a lab result) with required and optional
data for each. Messages are defined to be independent of computer
system and communications protocol, and they are constructed so
that later versions of the HL7 standard can add data elements
without "breaking" systems using older versions of HL7.
HL7 began as a bottom-up movement by system vendors and hospitals
to replace custom-built system interfaces with a shared standard.
It has become the de facto standard for hospital system
interfaces in the United States. Other standards in the field
include ASC X12N, widely used for insurance payment and
remittance messages; and the ACR/NEMA DICOM standards for
radiology images.
More information on HL7 can be found on the HL7 WWW server: http://dumccss.mc.duke.edu/ftp/standards.html
. (INACTIVE LINK ) There is also an HL7 list server to which you can subscribe
by sending the message "subscribe HL7" to < majordomo@virginia.edu
>.
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