Mobile Medical Library

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Mobile Medical Library
Informatio Medicata 2005 Budapest
9.-10.11.2005 Pirjo Rajakiili National Library
of Health Sciences Terkko

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Motivation

• Providing access to information is a
• part of the librarys core competence

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Access evolution

• 1. Access at the given time and place
• (Traditional Library)
• 2. Access at the given places
• (Electronic / Hybrid Library)
• 3. Access everywhere at the point of need
• (Mobile / Multichannel Library)

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Access at the point of need

• Medical information is often needed quickly
• Mobile access satisfies this need with
• Laptop
• Tablet PC
• PDA
• Mobile phone
• More devices coming

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Good things about mobile access

• You have it.
• More mobile phones than PCs in the world.
• Mobile phone penetration is over 100 in some
  countries.
• Mobile phone will be an important part of
  ubiquitous computing because people have got used
  to it.

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Good things about mobile access

• Its always with you.
• Information is always with you at the point of
  need.

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Good things about mobile access

• Its maybe the most personal thing you have.
• Mobile device is more personal than personal
  computer.
• It can know your identification, time, place etc.
• Personalization of information.

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Requirements for good user experience

• Efficient network
• Finally there is EDGE, UMTS (3G), WI-FI (WLAN)
• Efficient device
• Because of tough competition between operating
  systems (Symbian OS, Palm, Windows Mobile)
• Better screens, input methods, processors
• Efficient software/webpages
• Personalization.
• Good human-computer interaction (HCI).
• Web page must be fast to download
• Not too many images.

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Requirements for good user experience

• Easy to use.
• Simple navigation structure.
• Advanced mobile phone or PDA is actually easier
  to use than PC.
• But
• There is very little of education.
• There is no possibility to try out new devices in
  practice.

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Requirements for good user experience

• Inexpensive.
• Mobile internet connection is now much cheaper
  than a few years ago.
• GPRS-connection can be as cheap as 5 eur per
  month in Finland.

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Terkkos Services for Mobile Access

• Helka Handy user interface to Helka (Helsinki
  university library catalogue)
• Library catalogue is available everywhere.
• Keyword/Title/Author search possibilities.
• Presents a positioning map of the location where
  the searched resource is located in the library.
• Easier to use than a regular version of the
  database.

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Terkkos Services for Mobile Access

• FeedNavigator real-time current awareness
  service.
• Uses RSS technology.
• Information from about 1000 medical sources
• Journals
• News
• Blogs
• University of Helsinki based information
• Information contains a title and a link to full
  text.
• Usually also an author and an abstract.
• Favorite sources in the front page.
• Efficient search functions.
• Article request service.

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Terkkos Services for Mobile Access

• Knowledge databases of Helsinki University
• Julki
• information on more than 110 000 publications at
  the University of Helsinki.
• Tuhti
• information on more than 3800 research projects
  at the University of Helsinki.
• Asti
• information on more than 6500 experts at the
  University of Helsinki.

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Terkkos Services for Mobile Access

• Current care guidelines (Käypä hoito)
• Intended for national use
• Produced in Finnish since 1994
• Currently about 50 guidelines (250 planned)

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Terkkos Services for Mobile Access

• Article requests
• Via mobile internet page with article PubMed ID
• Via FeedNavigator
• Via text message with article PubMed ID
• Send a text message to number 173501.
• Use following text format terkko kauko PMID
  Email-address Own Name address (for instance
  terkko kauko 12914816 maija.meikäläinen_at_enddomain.
  fi Maija Meikäläinen Meikäkatu 11 00000 Meikälä).
• Request messages cost 0,61 euros/message,
  delivered articles according to the Service fees.
• All text message requests are delivered in RGO
  format.

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Terkkos Services for Mobile Access

• Mobile software downloads
• Software made by Terkko
• Some other medical software.

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Terkkos Services for Mobile Access

• Links to important medical resources
• PubMed for Handhelds
• Vertex Medline (normal version)
• Poliklinikka.net (Finnish medical mobile portal)

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Terkkos Services for Mobile Access

• Information about Terkko
• Contact information
• Opening hours
• Collection maps
• Service fees
• Etc.

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Mobile software in Terkko

• Mobile software
• Terkko. Java software introducing Terkko (Only in
  Finnish)
• MobiMeSH. Includes about 23 000 descriptors(Java)
• Puhelinluettelo. Information of 11000 UH
  employees(Java)
• Ovid_at_Hand
• HighWire PDA
• mobileMICROMEDEX
• Eponyms
• MD on Tap
• Wireless Information System for Emergency
  Responders
• TB Treatment Guidelines
• PalmEKG
• RepliGo version of PLoS Medicine

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Mobile software in Terkko

• Mobile software
• Calculators
• MedMath
• MedCalc
• CardioMath
• Document viewers
• Mobipocket
• Acrobat Reader
• RepliGo
• E-books
• BMJ PDA e-books
• NCBI Bookshelf

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Wireless Connectivity in Terkko

• Wireless internet connections via Wi-Fi (HUPnet)
• Client-PC with Bluetooth- and Infrared-
  connections

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User Education for Mobile Services in Terkko

• Courses.
• Client-PDA that allows clients to familiarize
  oneself with mobile hardware(Palm Tungsten C) and
  medical software.
• Information on the mobile services WWW-page.

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Thank you!

• More information
• www.terkko.helsinki.fi/english/mobile/mobileservic
  es.htm