Consumer Health & Patient Education Search Engine & Library Search HUD
David Rothman created a metaseach engine -by using Google Custom Search- for Consumer Health and Patient Education
by including about authoritative and trusted consumer health information and patient education resources recommended
by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and/or by CAPHIS (the Consumer and Patient Health Information Section of the Medical Library Association).Search for :Consumer Health & Patient Education
This is a great resources to offer to patrons in SL and important for the Consumer Health Library and the Medical Library. And we will offer it in several ways. I have asked Hugo Dalgleish to try and make it available in the way he is now offering the PubMed search (and several others). I like the way users can walk in the results and read them.
Also it would be great to offer it in the Library Search HUD as well. Damek Tretiak is going to try and include it, as well as the PubMed Search.
Damek also told me some hot new stuff (for me that was):
- people can adjust and add their own resources if they register (www.slquery.com)
- a new version of the Library HUD will be there today or tomorrow
- and he showed me a display screen of the Info Station that allows people to search WITHOUT the HUD
This is a real breakthrough I think for searching in SL.
So, for the HealthInfo Island we can expect to offer search in Pubmed
and Consumer health Info via the HUD , but also on large billboard displays of an Info kiosk.
December 5th, 2006 at 9:08 am
[...] We discussed the possibility of somehow integrating SFX into a SL library building to create a kind of reading room. I don’t understand enough about SFX to know whether that would work. I mentioned that I want to find out how the Medical Library at Healthinfo Island has installed a health info google CSE as a service. They consider it a breakthrough that they didn’t need to use the HUD. No idea what the HUD is and why it’s a breakthrough, but I intend to find out. [...]
February 14th, 2007 at 4:01 am
[...] has already made my Consumer Health and Patient Education Custom Search Engine available in Second Life, but now he’s added it to Netvibes, [...]