After a long week of orientation, the first-year medical students had a little friendly competition during the Samuel J. Wood Library’s annual Treasure Hunt. On Friday, August 24, nine teams of students scoured the library for clues using their newly-issued iPads and QR codes, each clue bringing them closer to the grand prize. The event helps new students learn about our extensive library resources and unwind from a hectic week.

The library has been holding the Treasure Hunt since 2006.

Our 3rd Annual Adobe August Month was a hit with the WCM community, bringing in 105 attendees who wanted to learn more about the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. Since we began offering licenses to WCM faculty, staff, and students three years ago, Adobe August has become a means to help beginners become familiar with the Creative Cloud interface, and understand the basics of simple graphic and web design, and video editing.

The Samuel J. Wood Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Nicole Milano as the new Head of the Medical Center Archives at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine.

As anyone who’s ever used an electronic health record (EHR) can attest, they weren’t built with research in mind. Entering data for patients can be difficult enough, but when it comes to getting data out for a study, many researchers throw their hands up and open Excel, where they start entering data by hand.

The new Weill Cornell Medicine app is now available for both iOS and Android devices! This mobile app puts Weill Cornell Connect in the patients’ hands, allowing them to easily manage their care at their convenience from anywhere they have an Internet connection.

Our upgrade of the Weill Research Gateway (WRG) is complete. You can now access WRG and all of its modules.

What’s been updated

This upgrade included changes in our user interface to make WRG sleeker and more intuitive to use.

Interested in using Amazon Web Services (AWS), but don’t know where to start? ITS can provide assistance in getting you on the right track, whether you need AWS for data storage and computing, developer tools, or other cloud services. 

Due to the current service outage the Weill Business Gateway (WBG) is experiencing, the timing of the SAP general ledger close for FY19 Period 1 (July) has been extended one day to Wednesday, August 8. 

Day 4 of the general ledger close will remain open and roll into tomorrow, Tuesday, August 7, with the same intra-day deadlines. 

Day 5 and the final close out of the general ledger for Period 1 will now take place on Wednesday, August 8.

We apologize for any inconvenience this delay may cause.

Due to popular demand, Adobe August is back to help you learn the basics of various Adobe Creative Cloud applications. If you’ve ever wanted to learn any Adobe CC applications, but didn’t know where to start, now’s your chance to take the plunge! 

Upcoming schedule and topics

During the month of August, we’ll be hosting these topics. Download our flyer to keep at your desk:  

Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) allows faculty, staff, and students to determine how many patients meet a given set of clinical criteria using de-identified electronic health record (EHR) data. Data sources include Epic, Allscripts/Eclipsys, Eagle, and the NYP Tumor Registry. All data are de-identified.