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British Health Service Posts Online Health Library

Wed, 01/03/2001 - 1:00am — Karen Stevenson
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The British National Health Service (NHS) has unveiled a pilot of an online "best practices" health library which will be available to both professionals and patients over the Internet. The National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) is expected to be fully functional by March 2002. The role of the NeLH will be to provide health care professionals and the public (through NHS Direct Online and the New Library Network) with knowledge and know-how to support health care related decisions.

The NeLH aims to become one of the great libraries of the world. It will provide easy access to best, current knowledge and know-how; improve health and healthcare, clinical practice & patient choice; and will be available via NHSnet and the Internet. The library's goal in its first phase it is to provide clinicians with access to information within 15 seconds, with a longer term goal of reducing the wait to one second. One of the main features of the library will be its ability to act as a quality filter so that the data accessed through the site, for both clinicians and the public, will not only be the best current knowledge, but will also be free from bias and conflict of interest.

The British National Health Service (NHS) has unveiled a pilot of an online "best practices" health library which will be available to both professionals and patients over the Internet. The National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) is expected to be fully functional by March 2002. The role of the NeLH will be to provide health care professionals and the public (through NHS Direct Online and the New Library Network) with knowledge and know-how to support health care related decisions.

The NeLH aims to become one of the great libraries of the world. It will provide easy access to best, current knowledge and know-how; improve health and healthcare, clinical practice & patient choice; and will be available via NHSnet and the Internet. The library's goal in its first phase it is to provide clinicians with access to information within 15 seconds, with a longer term goal of reducing the wait to one second. One of the main features of the library will be its ability to act as a quality filter so that the data accessed through the site, for both clinicians and the public, will not only be the best current knowledge, but will also be free from bias and conflict of interest.