Managing knowledge and technology to foster innovation at the Ohio State University Medical Center.

Biomedical knowledge is expanding at an unprecedented rate-one that is unlikely to slow anytime in the future. While the volume and scope of this new knowledge poses significant organizational challenges, it creates tremendous opportunities to release and direct its power to the service of significant goals. The authors explain how the Center for Knowledge Management at The Ohio State University Medical Center, created during the academic year 2003-04, is doing just that by integrating numerous resource-intensive, technology-based initiatives-including personnel, services and infrastructure, digital repositories, data sets, mobile computing devices, high-tech patient simulators, computerized testing, and interactive multimedia-in a way that enables the center to provide information tailored to the needs of students, faculty and staff on the medical center campus and its surrounding health sciences colleges. The authors discuss how discovering, applying, and sharing new knowledge, information assets, and technologies in this way is a collaborative process. This process creates open-ended opportunities for innovation and a roadmap for working toward seamless integration, synergy, and substantial enhancement of the academic medical center's research, educational, and clinical mission areas.

MEDLINE Search Strategies for Literature on Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders.

PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW: The purpose of this study is to examine the professional health literature on Asian American/Pacific Islanders in MEDLINE, review the guiding indexing principles used in MEDLINE, and present suggestions on how to most effectively search for material in the database. SEARCH METHODS USED: The authors conducted database searches in MEDLINE and examined the National Library of Medicine indexing principles related to Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders to develop database search strategies. SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT FINDINGS: Two factors which contribute to the difficulty in identifying health literature on Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders are the small amount of material published when compared to other ethnic groups and the complex nature of indexing in MEDLINE that may create problems for less experienced database searchers. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS: Additional journal publications concerning Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, a more thorough understanding of how the literature on this group is best retrieved from MEDLINE, and the development of more user­friendly approaches to the National Library of Medicine databases will aid researchers interested in this ethnic group. KEY WORDS: Asian Americans, MEDLINE, periodicals, databases, bibliographic