The Clifford C. Snyder, M.D. and Mary Snyder Lecture

SMART Patients: Consumer Health Informatics Responds to a
Changing Health Care Environment
presented by Patricia Flatley Brennan

"SMART" patients have the knowledge, resources, and motivation to participate in the self-help, self-care, and disease management activities necessary to achieve optimal wellness. "SMART" patients play an essential role in health care delivery of the late 20th century, taking over many of the tasks and activities once done by nurses and physicians. Consumer health informatics technologies, including CD-ROMs and health-related World Wide Web sites, provide patients with access to the information and peer support necessary to meet these contemporary challenges.

Changes in the role of patients will of necessity require changes in the roles of all health professionals. This presentation will introduce participants to the idea of "SMART" patients, examine research evaluating informatics tools to support the "SMART" patient, and propose modifications to contemporary health care delivery models that capitalize on the "SMART" patient as a clinical resource.

SMART is an acronym that stands for "self-assured, motivated, aware, resourceful and talented," as well as "scared, minors, anxious, reluctant, and time consuming!"
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Meet the Experts Panel: SMART Patients

Local panelists will join Dr. Brennan in discussing the opportunities and the challenges of consumer health informatics. The panel moderator is Wayne Peay. Panelists are Bruce Bray, M.D.; Jo Davies, M.L.S.; Jackie Smith, Ph.D.; and Cheryl Bagley Thompson, R.N., Ph.D.

Electronic Resources Fair:
Responding to Your Needs

Library staff will be available to answer your questions about access to electronic resources, including full-text journals, IAC/Pioneer, Horizon WebPAC, WinSPIRS, PubMed, other citation databases, Web-based interlibrary loan requests, and much more. Learn how to print an article from the Journal of Biological Chemistry in PDF format from your office computer, download the SilverPlatter client, or initiate an interlibrary loan request from your Web browser.

Computer Initiatives in Patient Education:
The Patient Education for U Project
presented by Jackie A. Smith

Learn of the "Web Leap" University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics took to integrate patient education resources into a web-based computer system. The results of a demonstration project to test the effectiveness of the Home Page, and the use of the computer technology in the clinical setting will be shared. Practical idea and tips to assist participants in preparing quality patient education materials for computer-assisted distribution will be presented along with specific strategies to introduce patient education computer initiatives into health care settings.
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Straight From the Headlines:
Web Resources for Health Topics in the Popular Media
presented by Deborah Hile and Kathleen McCloskey

Pick up a newspaper or a magazine. Turn on the television or the radio. Or browse the Internet. The popular media presents an array of health topics with headlines ranging from the common cold to emerging HIV/AIDS drug therapies to managed health care reform to vitamins. Deborah Hile will discuss the prevalence of health topics in the popular media and the increasing need to locate current and reliable health care information. She will identify useful Web sites for consumers, patients, and health care professionals and highlight some of their unique features.

In October 1998, the National Library of Medicine provided a new service to help aid the public in locating useful health information on the Internet. Kathleen McCloskey will provide an overview of the new Web site called MEDLINE plus. This excellent consumer health resource is accessible at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus
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Consumer Health Web Poster Gallery

As a new feature this year, the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library is excited to present a Consumer Health Web Poster Gallery. The Web posters have the look and feel of a regular poster session, with enhanced electronic features. The Web poster gallery is linked from the Eccles Library InfoFair Web page as of April 16, 1999 and is accessible at http://library.med.utah.edu/infofair/posters