Featured Book - Introduction to Computer Systems for Health Information Technology

The featured book from the current Library New Book List is Introduction to Computer Systems for Health Information Technology by Nanette B. Sayles and Kathy C. Trawick.

"The authors are Health Information Management veterans active in today's classrooms. They sought to create the ideal book for their own courses, resulting in a text that not only covers all the information systems material required by CAHIIM domains, subdomains, and tasks, it also incorporates all model curriculum topics for the HIM associate's degree." - back cover.

Kathy C. Trawick, EdD, RHIA, is the chair and associate professor of the Health Information Management Department in the College of Health Related Professions at UAMS. In addition to her 10 years in academics, Dr. Trawick has profound HIM practitioner experience in acute care facilities, serves as a consultant to health care facilities, holds offices at the state level in HIM and Cancer Registry associations, and currently serves on the CAHIIM Panel of Reviewers for HIT/HIA program accreditation.

W 26.55.C7 Sa99i 2010
Introduction to Computer Systems for Health Information Technology/ by Nanette B. Sayles and Kathy C. Trawick
Chicago, IL : American Health Information Management Association, 2010.

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Featured Book - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Note: The Library will be publishing the New Book List every two weeks instead of once a month.
The featured book from the current Library New Book List is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.

It was the Best Books of the Month on Amazon.com for February 2010. The following is from the Amazon.com review:
"From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta's family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the question, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories?" -- Tom Nissley

QU 300 Sk45i 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / by Rebecca Skloot.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2010.

Featured Book - Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System

This month's featured book from the Library's New Book list is Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System: Bacterial, Fungal, Viral, and Parasitic Infections by Dr. Laura W. Lamps, UAMS College of Medicine, Pathology Dept.

This book provides a unique diagnostic reference text for the pathological diagnosis of infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Written for the practicing surgical pathologist, this text combines the superior illustrations of an atlas with a carefully written prose to create a useful diagnostic companion. The text is divided into four sections covering bacterial, fungal, viral and parasitic infections of the gastrointestinal tract. The descriptive sections of the each chapter are organized into short paragraphs for easy reference and include the use of tables to compare and contrast organisms and summarize differential diagnoses.

WO 142 L199s 2009
Surgical pathology of the gastrointestinal system : bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic infections / by Laura W. Lamps.
New York ; London : Springer, 2009.

Continued Access to RefWorks If You Leave UAMS

Thanks to the library’s subscription to RefWorks, a new policy allows those who established a RefWorks account while at UAMS (students, faculty, staff) to keep the account and their "personal library" of research after leaving. The library is pleased to make this commitment to scholarship and research. Read more...

UAMS Inclement Weather Policy Implemented

UAMS has implemented the inclement weather policy for its Little Rock campus. Call the library at 501-686-5980 to check hours today. Please refer to the campus policy on inclement weather and the hospital policy. UAMS employees working at sites outside of Little Rock should consult with their supervisors when bad weather occurs. Students in the various UAMS colleges and graduate school should look to the specific weather policy in their own college to determine what to do when UAMS implements the inclement weather policy.

National Wear Red Day

Friday, February 5, 2010 is “National Wear Red Day” – a day when Americans nationwide will show their continued support for women's heart disease awareness by wearing red. Employees can participate in the national movement by wearing their favorite red dress, shirt, tie, or Red Dress Pin on Friday, February 5, 2010, to help spread the critical message that "Heart Disease Doesn't Care What You Wear – It's the #1 Killer of Women."

The Heart Truth campaign, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, first introduced the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness in February 2003.

Please visit the following Web site for additional information: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/hearttruth/index.htm.