This is a reflection on Yammer, an enterprise social media system. It’s a kind of Facebook for corporations and organisations. Yammer works using your work eMail address. Register with Yammer using your eMail and you are in a space with your co-workers. Yammer is owned by Microsoft and run from their Office division, so you might reasonably expect Yammer to come to a Trust near you in the not too distant future. [copied through automatically]
This year, 2014/15 the Open Athens statistics for health care libraries in the North West have been calculated differently. There are three measures [description came from what I highlighted, which was different to box below. Don't choose Post as Publication option]
The American Psychological Association today indexed its 4 millionth record in its PsycINFO® database of scholarly psychology literature.
This achievement is the result of over eight decades of detailed abstracting and indexing of international literature in the field of psychology and its related disciplines. Since reaching 3 million records in 2010, more than 200 new journals and more than 10,000 new books have been added to the PsycINFO database, bringing overall journal coverage to more than 2,570 journals. All of these changes have been necessary to cover the expanding and increasingly interdisciplinary literature of interest to psychologists around the world.
To determine what value health sciences students place on leisure reading, whether they prefer to read online or in print, what the principal barriers are to their reading and whether they wish to have a leisure reading collection at their health sciences library. Library Services do not currently have access to this journal, but you can request a copy of the article online and we will try to get a copy to you: http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Open access.....few authors have considered the specific issue of searching online for information about patients and much of the guidance published by regulatory organisations eludes this issue. In this article we provide clinical examples where the question ‘should I Google the patient?’ may arise and present questions for future research.
Open access. Individuals with mental health issues may post information on social networking sites that can provide an insight into their mental health status. It could be argued that doctors (and specifically psychiatrists) should understand the way in which social media is used by their patients to gain a better insight into their illnesses.
Open access. This descriptive study revealed that the representation of ‘psychiatry’ during summer 2012 was predominantly negative. A subsequent smaller re-analysis suggests that the negative portrayal of ‘psychiatry’ on YouTube is a stable phenomenon. The significance of this and how it could be addressed are discussed.
Open access. Smartphones are used by patients and clinicians alike. Vast numbers of software applications (apps) run on smartphones and carry out useful functions. Clinician- and patient-oriented mental health apps have been developed. In this article, we provide an overview of apps that are relevant for mental health. We look at clinician-oriented apps that support assessment, diagnosis and treatment as well as patient-oriented apps that support education and self-management. We conclude by looking at the challenges that apps pose with a discussion of possible solutions.
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