I have been working steadily with the excellent Seattle Public Library system to expand our health information offerings into the community. This has included some training on our health information resources, and last week, the first presentation I gave to patrons at my local library, the Montlake Branch, in Seattle, WA.

This branch is brand new, and just added Wi-Fi access. The week I presented, there was a traveling computer lab in the facility, complete with laptops, projector, and wireless network. I went with the ideas I had about what patients might be interested in from a topic of “Leveraging the Internet to Navigate the Health Care System,” based on what I refer to as our “50,000 patient-years” of experience interacting with patients online. The assumptions I made in preparing my presentation were proven wonderfully incorrect from this session. I can’t wait to do more.

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