Communication computerized databases

The National Library of Medicine is another principal unit of the NIH. The 10-story Lister Hill Center houses the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications and the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Both are components of the National Library of Medicine. The Library produces and publishes Index Medicus, a comprehensive monthly listing of articles appearing in the world s leading medical journals. The Library also operates a computerized Index Medicus, known as MEDLINE (PubMed), and has pioneered the introduction of large medical bibliographic databases. 

Support, communicate and recognize good practices, including the use of computerized maintenance management databases... 

Several inventory and tracking systems, often using bar code scanners and computer databases, are used throughout the complex. The databases typically include locations, amounts, uses, hazards, and custodians. Regardless of the inventory and tracking software used, it is important to integrate this software with other computerized environment, safety, and health systems, such as Hazard Communication, waste disposal, medical surveillance, and MSDS systems, at a particular site. 

Figure 6.1 shows a supply-chain view of the aircraft service activities. Data are tracked in two separate databases Aviation Computerized Maintenance System (ACMS) and Aviation Maintenance Management System (AMMIS). The ACMS database stores individual part-level serial number tracking and history of repairs and planned maintenance. The AMMIS database tracks flow of the broken part as it is repaired. In the original system, these two databases did not communicate ([27]). 

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