Here’s the inside scoop on Top Technology Trends from Janis Brown, Chair of the Medical Informatics Section:

At last year’s Medical Library Association meeting, members of the standing-room-only audience for the Medical Informatics Section invited panel on Top Technology Trends used audience response system clickers to signal that they wanted overwhelmingly at this year’s meeting: MORE.

So the Medical Informatics Section and their co-sponsors, the Educational Media Technologies Section, have done just that: come up with a sequel to top last year’s event.

MEDICAL INFORMATICS SECTION DELIVERS
TOP TECHNOLOGY TRENDS II: BRIDGE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
Monday, May 19, 2008, 10:30 AM - 12 noon
Room Columbus KL, Hyatt Regency, Chicago
(Please check the on-site schedule in the event of any room changes)

Topics to be covered, among others, will include:

  • Hospital 2.0, personal health record, including Google initiative and local hospital developments
  • Next-generation interfaces, specifically moving from mouse/click to touch/feel screens; visualization
  • Learning Management Systems (Angel, Moodle, Sakai, Sumtotal, etc.)
  • iPhone revolution (touch factor, etc.); spawning other mobile devices such as Instinct and Google phone; open cell phones
  • Applications, gadgets & Widgets in Fackbook & iGoogle; extending content through RSS feeds; QR codes

Don’t miss the returning participants . . .

  • Susan Lessick (panel moderator), Head, Grunigen Medical Library, University of California, Irvine; Google
  • Rikke Ogawa (jockey), Emergent Technologies Coordinator, University of California, Los Angeles Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
  • Wallace McLendon, Director, University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries, Gainesville
  • Bart Ragon, Associate Director for Library Technology Services and Development, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia
  • Eric Schnell, Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Prior Health Sciences Library, The Ohio State University, Columbus.

And additions to this year’s panel are:

  • Gabriel Rios, Deputy Director, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Lister Hill Library
  • Michelle Kraft, Senior Medical Librarian, Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library
  • Sadie Honey, Information & Web Services Librarian, University of California, San Francisco Library & Center for Knowledge Management.

Janis says it’s an interactive session, with an “energetic and sometimes irreverent” panel. Don’t forget to add this one to your itinerary!