MD Consult is back!  The Medical Libraries have added MD Consult to its slate of online resources.

Please join us Tuesday October 21 at CSJ or Wednesday October 22 at CSM for grand rounds. Dan Burke, from MD Consult, will present an overview of the database and provide you with the tools to optimize your MD Consult experience. 

MD Consult combines leading medical reference books, full text medical journals, MEDLINE and much more in a simultaneously searchable format. You’ll have evidence-based medicine right at your fingertips, 24/7.

MD Consult’s user friendly page is easy to navigate.

Accessing MD Consult – On Campus and Off

To access MD Consult from a Carondelet campus, start at the CHN Medical Library’s Internet homepage, http://chn.azhin.org/, or and click on MD Consult, found in the QuickLinks area of the page.  You can also access it from the Medical Library link on the Physician’s Portal.  If you are at a Carondelet facility, you do not need to use a username and password for access; just click through to the part of the resource you’d like to use.

Off-site access is also available by requesting a CHN Medical Library username and password.  Just fill out the form at the Register for off-site use link in the News and Alerts section of the Library homepage.  You will receive your username and password via email.  Once you have your username and password, login from the CHN Libraries’ homepage and click on MD Consult.  You will need to fill out a registration form the first time you log in off campus with your Athens user name and password.

What’s so great about MD Consult?

You have access to the complete text of over 50 leading medical reference books, over 100 full text journals, including 31 Clinics of North America titles, Gold Standard Drug Database, over 50,000 images from books, Practice Guidelines, and Patient Handouts which you can customize. You can search either singly or all together at one time. 

CME is provided free for the first five conferences that you submit for credit.  Choose from nearly 200 Grand Rounds activities across 15 specialties. 

You can also, at no charge, set up your own personal account on MD Consult to customize the content to your own specific interests. 

For More Information…

If you have any questions about MD Consult or any of our other resources, please call the CHN Medical Libraries (CSM 872-4974 or CSJ 873-3925).  We will be happy to help you.

Effective: 6-9-08

Emageon PACS Long Term Archive including remote access (via Citrix or physician portal) will be unavailable June 9, 2008 from 1800 until 2345.  During this time, follow your facilities PACS downtime procedure.

Once the system becomes available, all users will be required to reset their passwords.  Contact the helpdesk at 872-2500 to obtain your new password.  Ensure that you have your current PACS username prior to calling the help desk. 

On February 26, Carondelet's NPs and PAs can begin dictating under their own dictation numbers. As part of this change, they will also receive their own Inboxes, allowing them to view and modify their documents before forwarding them to the collaborating physician for authentication.

To receive a dictation number, the NP or PA will need to complete a brief, 10-15 minute web course available here. This course covers new changes in dictation and the basics of using Inbox to review, modify, and forward your documents. The new number will be sent on February 26 and the NP or PA can immediately begin using the number.

For questions about this change, please call the Physician Support Line at [520] 419-6264. We also want to recognize the NPs and PAs who participated in the pilot group. Their efforts and input helped to prepare for the full rollout. Participants in the pilot group are: Billie Froning, Karen Hauser, Maria McCabe, Wayne McLeod, Maureen Middleton, Denise Morrison, Connie Nikolaidis, Eve Roelker, and Regina Wright.

This unique service is now available to physicians and other health professionals because of a national contract negotiated by Ascension Health. Physician’s Briefing reviews the latest articles from over 400 international journals and news from the latest scientific meetings and regulatory agencies in the U.S. This information is broken down into 21 different specialty categories and presented in concise and precise summary format. Learn More

The Carondelet Order Set Forum is a blogging tool that will allow you to view our current order sets and collaborate with your colleagues across Carondelet without having to arrange or schedule meetings. Your log in for this system is your Cerner login. To begin using this tool, click here. Instructions on how to access and use the blog can be viewed here.

A second resource, Zynx, is also now available. Zynx will allow you to look up evidence and support for orderables or plans of care to aid you in your decision making process. This system is available to all Carondelet physicians, but you will need to request a login by e-mailing Zach Pendleton at zpendleton@carondelet.org. Once you have been given a login, instructions for accessing Zynx as well as a brief Zynx web-training course are available by clicking here.

Assessing risk and implementing strategies to prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE) just got easier. Details

Administration of the Flu Vaccine is a core measure at this time of year. Details

Please call the Carondelet Helpdesk at 872-2500 and choose Option #6 for physician support.

From 8AM-5PM, application specialists are available to assist with questions about using the system, and technical support for downloading the Citrix client at your home or office is available from 8AM to 8PM. Learn More

On Wednesday 19, September, a new voice prompt for “Facility” was implemented on the Dictaphone Voice system. The “Facility” prompt is used in the “Review” function to delineate which facility the dictation came from.

All Dictaphone EXVoice dictation master profiles have been modified to ask for a facility (51-CSM, 52-CSJ, 53-CHC, 54-SMIC, 55-CIC, 57-GVIC, 59-Wound) prior to asking for the FIN# when using the Review function in the dictation system. This allows physicians to select the dictation on patients dependent upon the facility where the patient had a procedure performed.

This additional step ensures the physician will hear only the dictation on the patient for whom they are caring. We apologize for any confusion that implementing the change before making an announcement may have caused; however, it was imperative to patient care and required immediate resolution.

Carondelet St. Joseph’s Hospital MEC Chief of Staff Newsletter is now available on-line.

Click here for current issue as well as archived issues.