Welcome to the Health-E Illinois project website!

   Health-E Illinois is a project that will enable users of MedlinePlus.gov to quickly find related, local health services in Illinois. This project will be the result of cooperative effort by Illinois librarians.

   This site has been constructed to inform and coordinate the efforts of our remote Health-E Illinois participants and other interested parties. Choose from the options on the left for more information and functions regarding particular aspects of the project.

News:

For current news, click here

10/23/2007

The Health-E Illinois group spoke to Health Sciences Librarians of Illinois at their fall meeting in Champaign-Urbana.

10/10/2007

The offical Springfield Kick-off celebration took place on October 10th. It was held at the Illinois Department of Public Health Training and Resource Library in the "Penta Room" on the second floor of the Penta Building, IDPH, 828 S. Second St., Springfield, IL 62704. Special thanks Thea Chesley for making this a successful launch.

10/03/2007
Loyola Health Science Library will be participating in the Women's Health Fair on Oct. 20 and at the Loyola Employee Health Fair on Oct. 25th. Both will be held at the Fitness Center. We will be presenting Health-E Illinois the state's foremost directory for consumers to find local health resources. We will be giving away nail files, pencils, information, and having a drawing for a gift certificate for a massage and $25 Border's gift card.

09/05/2007
The progress map has been updated to represent 9,000+ completed records!

08/15/2007
The progress map has been updated to represent 8,500+ completed records!

08/05/2007
The outreach team has created a tri-fold brochure, flyer and PowerPoint for an outreach class. Click here for the brochure in Publisher format. Click here for tri-fold brochure in pdf format.
Feel free to reproduce or alter these documents. On the tri-fold brochure, we have left a blank space for your to add your library's information.

07/01/2007
The progress map has been updated to represent 6.300+ completed records!

06/01/2007
A new form for submitting health sites to the database has been created.
The progress map has been updated to represent 5,750+ completed records!

05/01/2007
The progress map has been updated to represent 4,000+ completed records!

04/09/2007
3,000+ completed records!  See our Participation page for services we need your help finding!

03/20/2007
2,000+ completed records!  Entry of Health Systems and Hospitals has begun.

02/26/2007
1,000+ completed records!

02/09/2007
500 records have been successfully entered and reviewed in the Health-E Illinois database! So far, these records are primarily focused on Senior Health Issues and Substance Abuse Treatment Centers. Over 4,000 formatted records on a variety of topics are still waiting for review. Keep up the good work everyone!

11/03/2006
Go-Local project team presents Health-E Illinois at HSLI conference.

10/27/2006
Data entry of statewide senior services begins.

10/27/2006
Loyola University Health Sciences Library's grant proposal for Go-Local Illinois {Health-E Illinois} is accepted by the National Library of Medicine.

9/17/2006
Initial Health-E Illinois presentation and preliminary meeting of advisory board at UIC.

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