[medinformatics] Publishers and Healthcare Orgs Mount Information Initiative

[Medical Informatics News]

Scientific publishers and some of the nation’s leading voluntary health organizations,
including the American Cancer Society, have announced a groundbreaking initiative that will help patients and
caregivers bridge the information gap. From the patientInform press release:

Scheduled to launch as a pilot project in Spring 2005,
patientINFORM*is a free, online service dedicated to disseminating
original medical research directly to consumers. A collaborative effort of leading voluntary health organizations,
scholarly and medical publishers, medical societies, and information professionals, patientINFORM will provide
patients and their caregivers with online access to up-to-date, reliable research for specific diseases.
Participating voluntary health organizations will integrate the information into materials created for patients and
link to free full-text research articles and additional selected material on journal websites.

patientINFORM will initially focus on three diseases, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, through the
participation of three voluntary health organizations: The
American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association, and
American Heart Association; more than
20 publishers; the International Association of STM Publishers; the
Association of American Publishers/Professional & Scholarly
Publishers; the Welch Medical Library at The Johns Hopkins University,
and MedLinePlus, part of the National Institutes of Health’s
National Library of Medicine.


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