[Baynet] Infopeople's webcast series "Health e-Shows"

[Linda Rodenspiel]

Infopeople is offering a new webcast series on consumer health: 
Health e-Shows.  The first webcast was given on October 22 and can be 
viewed as an archived webcast.

Here are the dates for the next three in the series:

Session #2 - Communicating About Health: Empowering Patrons To 
Communicate With Their Health Care Providers on December 3
Session #3 - An in-depth look at MedlinePlus on February 19
Session #4 - Beyond MedlinePlus: Resources That Answer Those Other 
Tough Health Reference Questions on April 10

The sessions will be presented by Kelli Ham, Consumer 
Health  Coordinator, NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region, UCLA Louise M. Darling
Biomedical Library.

Second session:

Title:  Communicating About Health: Empowering Patrons To Communicate 
With Their Health Care Providers

Date and time: December 3, 2007, 12pm - 1pm

This webcast will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for 
Infopeople webcasts.  Pre-registration is not required.

For more information and to participate in the December 3 webcast, go to
http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/239/index.html

Health questions are routinely asked at the reference desk, and often 
information is provided with additional encouragement to discuss the 
findings with the patron's doctor. However, communicating with the 
health care provider may not be easy for many people for a variety of 
reasons. How can patients ask all of their questions if they only see 
the doctor for just five or ten minutes? What if there are cultural 
or language barriers? What can libraries or other information 
providers do to help people be active participants in their own health care?

This webcast is geared to libraries and organizations that provide 
health information to the public, covering issues and resources 
around the topic of communication between patients and their health 
care team. The first segment of the webcast will focus on issues 
concerning barriers to communication, the complexity of the health 
care system, end-of-life issues, patient safety and patient rights. 
The remaining time will be devoted to the best resources and most 
effective strategies to help your patrons learn about communicating 
with their health care providers in order to take an active role in 
their health.

Speaker:  Kelli Ham.  Kelli has over twelve years of experience 
working in corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 
2005, Kelli has been the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National 
Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region 
(PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is 
responsible for planning and coordinating consumer health programs 
and activities for public libraries and community-based organizations 
in the Region. Outreach activities focus on meeting the health 
information needs of the diverse population groups in the Pacific 
Southwest Region.

Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webcasts to anyone in 
the California library community.  If you are outside California, 
please do not register for the live event.

However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day 
following the webcast.  Check our archive listing at:
http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived

Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list.

Webcast: Communicating About Health: Empowering Patrons To 
Communicate With Their Health Care Providers
Date: December 3, 2007
Time:  12pm - 1pm
Speaker: Kelli Ham