FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Chicago APA Meeting
Micro-Cares(tm) Meeting & Demonstration
May 2nd, 2000 --
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
May 2, 2000
We are having a MICROCARES meeting at the Annual Meeting of the American
Psychiatric Association in Chicago, Illinois:
May 15, 2000
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Palmer House (Hotel)
17 Monroe Street
Cresthill #11 Room
CHicago, ILLiNOIS, USA
Buffet Lunch for All Attendees
1) This meeting will review the MICROCARES Literature Database 2000
Millenium update. All attendees will be given the Database in
hardcopy in General Hospital Psychiatry 21(6):402-502;November/December
1999. All attendees will also be presented the Literature Database 2000 on
CDRom which will include citations by problem lists, abstracts, and in
certain cases commentaries by the experts. The CD-Rom has both the
software and database for Windows 95 or greater, and of course you can
create your own databases for areas of your personal interest.
2) The use of the Literature Database for the creation of National C-L
databases will be presented using the Spanish and Portuguese models.
3) The Clinical Database Management System has been refined. Its
potential adaptation to the PalmPilot and the Windows CE hardware will be
presented and demonstrated. This important potential would allow
hardware for the MICROCARES system to be purchased for a few hundred
dollars and not the $1500-$3000 for a windows compatible laptop or pen
entry system. Developing countries, programs with several residents,
and attendings performing consultations could then have access to the
hardware for systematic data collection which to date has been too costly.
Portuguese and Spanish Versions of the Clinical Database Management System
are now available thanks to Dr. Serafim Carvalho, Porto, Portugal, and Dr.
Ricardo Rodenas-Campos of Zaragosa, Spain.
They have done a wonderful job and we thank them.
4) Potential enhancements to the Clinical Database Management System will
be discussed, e.g., including drug - psychotropic drug interactions, an
expanded database that would capture neurological and medical data,
capacity to add new drugs in an easier format, report generation using a
Word format that would allow each user to create the report style and
contents they prefer and which conforms with the paper, format, protocol
of their individual institutions. Each user could create their own
reports from the variables in the database. This important advantage
has been advocated by Graeme Smith of Australia, and when completed should
offer an important addition to the MICROCARES system
5) Suggestions from the users and potential users for further enhancements
and future development will be sought. It is hoped that all
attendings may review what they feel would be important for a computer
data collecting system in a variety of clinical situations, private
office, inpatient, outpatient, nursing home, house call settings. What
enhancements of the current versions of the two programs would you like to
see? Would you like to work on that enhancement with us?
There will be hands on opportunities after 2:00p.m. for those wanting to
observe the Literature Database and Clinical Database Management software
in observations.
We are excited to meet all of you and show you what MICROCARES has done
since we last met, and where we hope it can go. It should be an
important time to be together and we look forward to renewing your
friendship and having lunch together which will be provided by Pharmacia
(Carol Himelien, New York City).
Please return your RSVP by e mail so we know how many of you will be with
us, or if you can not attend, if you want data on the meeting.
We look forward to seeing you in Chicago.
Best wishes and bon voyage,
Jim Strain, M.D.
Tel: 212-659-8729, Fax: 212-369-6817, e mail:
Jim_Strain@hotmail.com
For More Information Contact:
Micro-Cares(tm) Software for Physicians
Box #1230
Mt. Sinai-NYU Medical Center/Health System
One Gustave L. Levy Place
New York City, NY 10029
Tel: 212-659-8728
FAX: 212-369-6817
Internet: jim_strain@Hotmail.com
