IU Medical Librarians Link Hoosiers With Localized Health Care Resources

INDIANAPOLIS – Information on health-care services for Hoosiers is now readily available online county by county through INHealthConnect, a web site and database created by the librarians at the Indiana University School of Medicine Ruth Lilly Medical Library. INHealthConnect was created to provide organized, quality-filtered information on a wide range of health topics as well as links to community based services.
Local resources for clinical trials, medical specialists, health-screening programs, health-care educators, home health equipment, and other services are available at INHealthConnect. The web site provides a link with the IU School of Medicine librarians who will continuously update the information with new resources. Non-commercial health-care related web links can be forwarded to them for possible inclusion.

INHealthConnect is part of MedlinePlus Go Local, a service that will eventually provide local health-care related information for all 50 states. More than 6,000 records on health-related topic can be found on MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine’s premier public health information site. It’s on the web at http://medlineplus.gov.

INHealthConnect also can be accessed from a topic search on the MedlinePlus web site. For instance, individuals researching a topic such as diabetes on MedlinePlus, can click on the Go Local menu, select Indiana, then choose the desired county or city to obtain information on diabetes resources in that area.

The official kickoff for INHealthConnect was at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14. Speakers included Indiana State Health Commissioner Judith A. Monroe, M.D., Marya Overby with the Indianapolis Office of Economic Development, and Julie McGowan, Ph.D., IU School of Medicine associate dean for information resources and educational technology.

Funding for the project is from The Library Partners of the Indianapolis Foundation, the Indiana State Library, and the Greater Midwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. 

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