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The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has formally launched MedlinePlus Connect.

This free service allows health organizations and health information technology (HIT) providers to link patient portals and electronic health record (EHR) systems to MedlinePlus.gov, a trusted source of authoritative, up-to-date health information for patients, families and health care providers.

(Elsevier) Elsevier Middle East announces that the Journal of Infection and Public Health has been selected for inclusion in MEDLINE, the premier bibliographic database of the US National Library of Medicine.

Citations for articles indexed, the indexing terms and the abstract printed in the journal are now searchable using PubMed.

Indexing using the US National Library of Medicine's advanced MeSH terminology will be retroactive from Volume 1, Issue 1 (2008) of the journal.

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(NIH/National Library of Medicine) The National Library of Medicine today launched the Newborn Screening Coding and Terminology Guide, an important step toward efficient electronic exchange of standard newborn screening data.

In news that must have been leaked by anonymous spies after being kept at a level of "Top Secret" and not acted upon for decades, Healthcare IT News reports on the healthcare IT user experience:

As readers of healthcare blogs know, I have frequently written about the lack of formally-trained Medical Informatics specialists in the pharmaceutical industry.