Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:31:11 +0000

Part-time position with benefits.

UCSF Patient Health Library
UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion
1600 Divisadero Street
San Francisco, CA 94115

Job Summary:

The librarian is responsible for the daily operation of the Patient Health Library. These responsibilities include providing health/medical reference support to all patients, their friends, family members, and partners, and to Mount Zion neighbors who visit the library; marketing, developing, promoting, and disseminating information about the Patient Health Library throughout the UCSF community; maintaining the Patient Health Library Collection, including recommending materials for acquisition and cataloging new items; and maintaining a local policies & procedures manual/handbook.

Qualifications:

Required, Masters degree in library science from an accredited institution. Minimum of 2 years of experience in providing health & medical reference/research support, including expert use of PubMed and thorough knowledge of & competency in using lay health/medical resources. Substantive understanding of basic biomedicine. Excellent working knowledge of lay and professional health & medical resources, including both on-line and hard-copy resources; must be able to conduct intelligent reference interviews with clients, asses their information needs and select &/or guide them to the most appropriate source(s). Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to work independently. Ability to assess/plan/implement program and marketing requirements for the Patient Health Library.

Familiarity with NLM, OCLC, and Melvyl; knowledge of Inmagic a plus.

The UCSF Patient Health Library is a part of the H.M. Fishbon Memorial Library at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion.

Salary and Classification:

UCSF Medical Center Classification:  Analyst III, Job Code 7236
This is a part-time (50%) position with benefits. (FTE $53,600 – $88,400)

Application:

Apply only through UCSF Human Resources; refer to Requisition # 32115BR

A laptop containing sensitive patient information was recently stolen from an employee of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine.

How many victims? 4,400.

What type of personal information? Names, medical record numbers, ages and clinical information.

The stolen laptop did not contain any Social Security numbers or financial data.

What happened? The laptop was stolen on Nov. 30. UCSF's police department began an investigation Dec. 1, and the laptop was recovered in Southern California on Jan. 8.

Details: The UCSF Enterprise Information Security department determined that a file on the laptop contained “limited” information for some patients about their treatment at the medical center in 2008 and 2009.

In addition, the laptop also contained files from the employee's prior employer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Those files contained data about Beth Israel patients.

Quote: “There is no indication that unauthorized access to the files or the laptop actually took place,” UCSF said in a statement.

What was the response? The university is alerting affected individuals. In addition, a toll-free number (1-877-809-1270 ext. 74005) was established to provide more information about the breach.

Source: http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/, San Francisco Business Times, “UCSF says laptop with 4,400 patient records stolen, then recovered,” Jan. 27, 2010.