Category: News

ArcGIS Online Available to All Stanford Affiliates with SUNetID

According to Stanford Geospatial Center, for anyone who has a SUNetID, you no longer need to go through the SGC to get an account.   About ArcGIS ArcGIS Online is a collaborative web GIS that allows you to use, create, and share maps, scenes, apps, layers, analytics, and data. You get access to Living Atlas of… Read more ArcGIS Online Available to All Stanford Affiliates with SUNetID

Sanford Guides App does not require you to renew

Attention! We have found that the publisher of the Sanford Guides has pushed notifications to Stanford people who have downloaded the Sanford Guides app that instruct you to go to the online store to renew. Please disregard these messages. Lane has contacted Sanford Guides and determined that they generated the notifications in error. There is… Read more Sanford Guides App does not require you to renew

Color Our Collections Week: February 5th-9th, 2018

Do you enjoy coloring or know someone who does? If so, check out Lane’s very own coloring book for Color Our Collections week! Started by The New York Academy of Medicine Library in 2016, Color Our Collections is a weeklong celebration of coloring on social media organized by libraries, archives, and cultural institutions from around… Read more Color Our Collections Week: February 5th-9th, 2018

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Practice Updates

As an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the AHRQ gathers and analyzes data on a massive scale, providing a wealth of information for researchers, policy makers and clinicians. The AHRQ released 3 new practice updates in December: A Framework for Conceptualizing Evidence Needs of Health Systems: White Paper. Methods for… Read more Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Practice Updates

Explore Virtual Reality with Our New Mobile VR Kit

VR has arrived at Lane Medical Library!Mobile VR is one of the most accessible forms of VR currently available. When used in conjunction with a headset, most modern smartphones are capable of supporting at least a basic semi-immersive 360° experience, with many modern smartphones running operating systems that are compatible with more immersive VR experiences.… Read more Explore Virtual Reality with Our New Mobile VR Kit

Guidelines for environmental infection control in health-care facilities

Guidelines for environmental infection control in health-care facilities; recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). Originally published in 2003, revised in 2017 with the revisions noted by yellow triangle alert icons in the text. Adherence to these guidelines “… will decrease the risk of health-care associated infections among patients, especially… Read more Guidelines for environmental infection control in health-care facilities

GIS Day 2017 Workshops!

Join Stanford Libraries in preparing for GIS Day ( Wednesday, November 15th) by attending a workshop next Monday or Tuesday on Skynet or CARTO. Deep Learning + Satellite Imagery Tutorial with Drew Bollinger of Development SeedMONDAY, NOV 131:00-5:00 PM (PST)Branner Earth Sciences Library | 397 Panama Mall | Stanford, CA 94305 Skynet is optimized for… Read more GIS Day 2017 Workshops!

New Exhibit on Display in the Library

A new exhibit about the role of the Stanford University School of Medicine in WWI is now on view in Lane Library, marking the 100th anniversary of the US entry into the war. The exhibit examines the split that occurred within the university and the country over the proper role of the US when war… Read more New Exhibit on Display in the Library

Cuba outperforms U.S. healthcare in cost-effectiveness – by a large margin

Cuba achieves nearly the same outcomes in 4 key indicators while spending 15 times less per capita, according to statistics gathered from the World Health Organization. A RAND blog post by Melody Harvey and Claire E. O’Hanlon, Doing more with less: Lessons from Cuba’s Healthcare system, summarizes the key differences, including medical education, between the… Read more Cuba outperforms U.S. healthcare in cost-effectiveness – by a large margin

AHRQ Releases First Public Database on Nation’s Health Systems

In 2015, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created the Comparative Health System Performance (CHSP) Initiative to study how health care systems promote evidence-based practices in delivering care. AHRQ’s goal is to understand the factors that affect health systems’ use of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and to identify best practices in disseminating and… Read more AHRQ Releases First Public Database on Nation’s Health Systems