ACHSE the mobile manager

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ACHSEthe mobile manager

• Mobility and information

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Mobility and information

• Anytime
• Anyplace
• Changes in lifestyle
• Professional information beyond the organisation
• When the mind is at its most receptive to
  learning information and creating knowledge

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Information applications

• Web sites
• Web documents
• Newsletters

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Acquisition of skills

• Web skills
• Information skills
• Learning skills

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Web skills

• Example training sites
• http//www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/internet/index.htm
• http//www.microsoft.com/insider/internet/

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Learning skills

• Example training site
• http//snow.utoronto.ca/Learn2/introll.html

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Information skills

• Context
• Categorisation
• Credibility
• Example training site
• http//www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/ski
  ll26.htm

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Information applications

• Web sites
• Web documents
• Newsletters

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Forms of information

• Directories
• Search engines
• Clinical sites
• Education sites
• Health management sites
• Jurisdictional sites
• Professional/personal sites

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Directory sites

• White Pages
• http//www.whitepages.com.au/wp/
• http//www.teldir.com/
• Yellow Pages http//www.yellowpages.com.au/
• Maps http//www.whereis.com.au/

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Search engine sites

• Google task bar www.google.com
• Journals http//www.ingenta.com/

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Clinical sites

• British Medical Journal http//bmj.com/
• Document clinical networks
• Evidence based medicine http//www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/b
  andolier/
• NSW Health intranet http//www.clininfo.health.ns
  w.gov.au/
• Commonwealth Health Insight http//www.healthinsi
  te.gov.au/

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Health management sites

• Health Leaders Network www.hln.com.au
• AIHW http//www.aihw.gov.au/
• Document waiting times
• National Health Service http//www.nelh.nhs.uk/ma
  nagement/
• The National Academies http//www.nationalacademi
  es.org/
• Book unintended consequences

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Jurisdictional sites

• NSW www.health.nsw.gov.au
• Victoria http//www.dhs.vic.gov.au/
• Commonwealth http//www.health.gov.au/
• NZ http//www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf
• England http//www.doh.gov.uk/
• Canada http//www.gov.on.ca/health/

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Education sites

• What to look for
• UNE http//online.une.edu.au/

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Newsletter sites

• British Medical Journal http//bmj.com/
• Professional sites
• http//scout.cs.wisc.edu/
• http//lii.org/search
• http//infomine.ucr.edu/

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Professional/personal sites

• Banking www.westpac.com.au
• Travel
• http//www.virginblue.com.au/
• http//www.wotif.com/Accommodation/default.asp?Cou
  ntryCode1
• Currency converter http//www.xe.com/ucc/

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Professional/personal sites continued

• Media
• http//www.abc.net.au/
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/radio/
• www.smh.com.au
• www.economist.tv
• Software and hardware reviews
• www.cnet.com
• www.zdnet.com
• Books www.amazon.com

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Newsletters

• Examples
• BMJ http//bmj.com/current.shtml
• Wharton http//knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

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ACHSEthe mobile manager

• Mobility and information