Welcome to the Virtual Medical Library e-Newsletter. The purpose of this newsletter is to announce new resources added to the FSU Virtual Medical Library, to feature established online resources to acquaint students and faculty with these resources, mention a cool feature of some PDA resource, and remind everyone how to access our Library resources from off campus. The featured resources for this month are images.MD and Coding on the PDA.
The newsletter archives on the web:
http://med.fsu.edu/library/LibraryHandout_00.html.
This newsletter in pdf for printing:
http://med.fsu.edu/library/Newsletter200404/Newsletter200404.pdf
Semesters are changing and many students will have no classes, but the library will be maintaining hours to accommodate students preparing for USMLE exams (with the exception of Memorial Day weekend - stay tuned for details).
Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.
- 1999-present available as full text
Neurorehabilitation.
- 1999-present available as full text
Click on image to go to site.
Yes, there are images available from places other than Google! And the beauty of images.MD is that we have licensed these medical images for your use in courses, presentations and papers. The home page for Images.MD is accessible via the scroll down menu.
You do not need to register if you are on campus or if you are accessing our library off-campus via EZProxy (see EZProxy instructions at the end of this newsletter).
However, if you want to register, you may save your own image library
at the Images.MD website.
Your personal library of saved images will be there when you need it,
but will not take up space on your own computer.
Click on image to go to site.
This example demonstrates the contents to images on skin cancer in thumbnail display.
Click on image to go to site.
The thumbnails can be enlarged by clicking on the image.
Overall, the entire Images.MD collection includes 50,000 images.
You can search Images.MD via a basic search, advanced search or by browsing categorical lists.
So don’t limit yourselves to Google.
Take 5 minutes to see what Images.MD covers as a reminder of this useful library resource.
One of the most popular PDA applications for practicing physicians, after the standard drug and disease references, is a coding reference. Billing complexity continues to increase with the numbers of health insurance companies, HMOs, PPOs, etc. Accuracy of coding is essential for full and timely reimbursement from these payers.
An easy-to-use, PDA coding module is included in InfoRetriever, one of our library resources which is available to all faculty and students. It includes both an ICD-9 lookup and an Evaluation and Management (E/M) coding guide based on Medicare rules.
From the Type of Search, select either the ICD-9 code lookup, or the E/M coding wizard. For the ICD-9 diagnosis code, type in a word and hit Find. It will bring up every match.
Tap on the diagnosis that you want and it will pull up that section of codes. Just be sure Search by: name is checked.
The E/M Wizard lets you fill in all of the factors of the visit, select which rules to use, the 1997 or 1995, then get the result. Just keep in mind, you must document each factor in your progress note to legally bill at that level.
There are a number of other medical reference programs for the PDA. A link to some these can be found on the PDA Software page of the FSU Virtual Medical Library.