NNLM Discovery | Equal Healthcare Access in Utah

Important databases like PubMed are provided free so that clinicians around the world can locate the biomedical literature of the world. But what if the full text of that literature is tied to multiple subscriptions and you work in a rural area that can’t afford the fees?
On this episode of the NNLM Discovery podcast, Region 4’s communication specialist, Lauren Wittek, shares how NNLM is funding a pilot program to help the ecosystem of health care professionals who operate outside of large institutions. Lauren interviews Christy Jarvis, medical librarian at the Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah, about the issues faced by rural physicians and how her project enables access for all.
The NNLM is the outreach arm of the National Library of Medicine with the mission to advance the progress of medicine and improve the public health by providing all U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and improving the public's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health. The seven Health Sciences Libraries function as the Regional Medical Library (RML) for their respective region, with Region Four consisting of: Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
To learn more about Region 4 visit :www.nnlm.gov/about/regions/region4
All of the artwork for this podcast series has been created with a generative AI text-to-image tool! The text prompt for the episode's artwork was "Doctors receiving equal healthcare access to biomedical literature as abstract painting.”