title: Creating a Web-accessible, point-of-care, team-based information system (PointTIS): the librarian as publisher.
abstract: The Internet has created new opportunities for librarians to develop information systems that are readily accessible at the point of care. This paper describes the multiyear process used to justify, fund, design, develop, promote, and evaluate a rehabilitation prototype of a point-of-care, team-based information system (PoinTIS) and train health care providers to use this prototype for their spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury patient care and education activities. PoinTIS is a successful model for librarians in the twenty-first century to serve as publishers of information created or used by their parent organizations and to respond to the opportunities for information dissemination provided by recent technological advances.
authors.affiliation: Louis Calder Memorial Library, University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016950, Miami, Florida 33101, USA.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Burrows
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Lemkau
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005431:Florida; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D019146:Hypermedia; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D020407:Internet / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D007998:Library Science / Q000639:trends*; D016239:MEDLINE; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires