Get Diagnostic Decision Support with VisualDx

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VisualDX is a visual diagnostic decision support system that includes medical images and illustrations. VisualDx is designed to match the way a physician thinks about signs, symptoms, and diagnoses. The content is organized by common and diagnostic problem areas as well as by age and body location. It visually presents disease variations by skin type, age, and passage of time. Clinicians can initiate a unique differential diagnosis based on the visual symptoms of a patient. A customized pictorial differential diagnosis tailored to a patient’s findings would be formulated dynamically. VisualDX also compares most relevant diseases, or drills down to research with handbook-length clinical information and variation in visual presentation.

To access this resource, click on the link above, or look it up using the MSKsearch search box on the Library website.

From Your Mobile Device (for iOS and Android only):

MSK clinical staff can access VisualDx on their mobile device due to an institutional subscription to this resource. Follow the four easy steps below to download the app:

  • Log in to VisualDx on a computer at the hospital, through VPN, or from the Library Website
  • Find the VDx Mobile icon (upper right corner) and click the Get VisualDx Mobile link
  • Using your institutional e-mail address, complete the form to request a user name and password
  • Follow the instructions in the activation e-mail to download and begin using VisualDx Mobile

Please note that you will need to request a user name and password in order to access the app.  Should you need assistance, please contact the reference team via Ask-A-Librarian or 212-639-7439.

Access to this resource has been made possible by the Department of Medicine, Dermatology Service. Their financial support is greatly appreciated.

News From Blogland

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Zotero, the free citation manager is on fire this month with announcements of new funding for two major projects. The first project will see Zotero expanding to work with institutional repositories thanks to funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and collaboration from two universities. Secondly, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a project researching altmetrics and expanding their API enabling bibliometric research and integration into third-party apps. In addition to these exciting ventures, Zotero has also announced that accounts with unlimited storage space are now being offered for an annual fee!

USA Today, among many others, reported on tensions surrounding net neutrality.

A study by the UK Department for Media & Sport shows that visiting libraries and other cultural institutions is “significantly” associated with life satisfaction.  Their study estimates that the monetary value of library use is around $2200 a year!

What If You Had Five Extra Hours Per Week to Promote Science?

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I read with interest a recent letter published in Science (4 April 2014) where young scientists were asked to send their ideas about what they would do in support of Science Advocacy.  A host of answers was shared, most revolving around children and young adults. Ideas included volunteering at high schools to provide presentations, using social media to blog or post about science, writing informative articles, becoming a science mentor and my personal favorite – becoming a magician in order to fascinate children and teach them about science.

While I found this NextGenVoices survey to be a great way to generate ideas and share suggestions, I started to think how librarians, informationists, or information professionals could also partner with our researchers as science advocates – we could help research and locate science literature geared to specific age levels, we could retweet our researchers’ blog posts, we could establish current awareness alerts to support our researchers’ writing attention-grabbing articles for high school students, and perhaps we could even locate magician’s tricks worth sharing!

What a perfect collaboration — and for an excellent cause!

Donna Gibson
Director of Library Services