Skip to Main Content Skip to main content
University of Washington

Home

Patricia J. Devine, MLS

Welcome!

HEALWA logo

HEALWA is a portal to online resources serving selected healthcare providers in Washington State. HEALWA was created by legislation in 2007 and is funded by a portion of the license fees of the participating professions. Patricia Devine is the Community Outreach Coordinator for HEALWA.  https://heal-wa.org/

Responsibilities

Purpose of Position
The Community Outreach Coordinator provides leadership, vision and daily management of the HEALWA program. 

Current responsibilities:

  • Manage the day-to-day HEALWA program and portal, in consultation with the Director (PI), regarding planning, budgeting, personnel, implementing, and reporting activities; create promotional materials and reports to stakeholders.
  • Collaboratively foster strong lines of communication with state legislative delegations, executive branch agencies professional organizations and other stakeholders by assembling advisory bodies and coordinating meetings.
  • Develop outreach programs to promote use of the portal by eligible healthcare professionals throughout the state.
  • Identify potential resources, including databases, books or journals that support the clinical and patient care information needs of the Washington healthcare providers for inclusion in the portal.
  • Keep current on state legislation and initiatives to identify possibilities for collaboration and partnership on healthcare initiatives, respond to inquiries, fiscal notes, and bills, and to be proactive in ensuring that the HEALWA program remain current and relevant.
  • Monitor legislative activities pertaining to HEALWA, and provide responses to legislative inquiries.
  • Work with Systems to update and maintain HEALWA website.
  • Analyze and compares technologies and methods for serving the information needs of users and ongoing evaluation of electronic services and resources.
  • Promote HEALWA through publicity opportunities, attendance at meetings, professional publications, and other opportunities as available.
  • Collaborate with librarians to promote HEALWA to graduating professionals and in continuing education venues.
  • Work with Libraries Advancement to fundraise and raise awareness of HEALWA and promote access to Friends and members of the community.

Presentations

Presentations and Classes:

  • “Authoritative Information for Washington Healthcare Providers", Western Agriculture Safety and Health Conference - Cultivating Collaborations, Seattle, WA, August 2019.
  • “HEALWA: The On Call Library for Washington State Practitioners”, Project Access NW, Seattle, WA, June 2019.
  • “Evidence-based Nursing Practice”, Northwest Perioperative Consortium, Bellevue, WA, November 2018, April 2019
  • “Resources for Community Health Workers: Using Social Media to Expand Communication”, NW Regional Primary Care Association Migrant Forum, Seattle, WA, February 2018.
  • “PubMed Update” Webinar for Kaiser Permanente Librarians, October 2017.
  • “All About Drugs”, Concordia College Nursing Class, Portland, OR, October 2017.
  • “Keeping up with the Medical Literature: An Action Plan”, Washington Academy of Physician Assistants, Seattle, WA, April 2017 (1.5 CME).
  • “Using Social Media: Public Health Campaigns”, Science of Hope Conference, Seattle, WA, April 2017.
  • “NLM Health Information Resources”, Tribal College Librarians Institute, Bozeman, MT, June 2016.
  • “Nation Network of Libraries of Medicine Funding Program”, College Librarians and Media Specialists of Washington Annual Meeting, Bellevue, WA, May 2016.
  • “Suicide Prevention Resources” Washington Academy of Physician Assistants Annual Recertification Review, Seattle, WA, April 2016 (1 CME).
  •  “Suicide Prevention Resources for Clinicians and Patients”, Washington Academy of Physician Assistants Fall Meeting, Cle Elum, WA, October 2015 (1 CME).
  • “NLM’s PubMed Database”, Washington Department of Health, Tumwater, WA, January 2015.
  • “Find Articles You Need: Search PubMed Efficiently”, Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL, December 2014.
  • Save Searches, Get Updates: PubMed MyNCBI, Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL, December 2014.
  • “Health on the Range”, Association for Rural and Small Libraries Annual Conference, Tacoma, WA. September 2014.
  • “PubMed for Pharmacists”, NW Pharmacy Association, C’oeur d’Alene, ID, May 2014.
  • “PubMed for Nurses: Finding Relevant Information”, College Librarians and Media Specialists Annual Meeting, Moses Lake, WA, May 2014.
  • “Health Literacy: A Universal Precautions Approach”, Idaho Academy of Physician Assistants, Sun Valley, ID, April 2014 (1 CME).
  • “PubMed for Nurses: Finding Relevant Information” Washington Community College Workshop, Seattle, WA, March 2014.
  • “Twitter Graduate School: Teaching Health Sciences Students to Utilize Social Media to Address Issues in Healthcare” Online NW, February 2014.
  • “Health Information Literacy: A Universal Precautions Approach”, NW Pharmacy Convention, Coeur d’Alene, ID, June 2013.
  • “American Indian Health Portal”, Native American Women’s Dialog on Infant Mortality, Urban Indian Health Institute, Seattle, WA, June 2013.
  • “Twitter 101 for Newcomers: Using Twitter to Find Medical Information”, Stat Consult, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Washington, DC, May 2013.
  • Twitter Graduate School: For the Experienced Tweeter Ready to Stay Up To Date”, Stat Consult, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Washington, DC, May 2013.
  • “Finding and Using Quality Health Information Resources: Prescription for Success” training for Medical Interpreters, November 2012, Seattle, WA.
  • “Making PubMed Work For You”, Moodle Class, November 2012, Seattle, WA.
  • “PAs, Patients, and Information Integrity: Finding the Good Stuff with PubMed”, Washington Academy of Physician Assistants, Fall Meeting, Spokane, WA, October 2012.
  • “Enhancing Professional Use of Social Media”, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Constituent Organization Resource Exchange, Alexandria, VA, September 2012.
  • “PubMed Rediscovered”, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Impact 2012, Toronto, ON, May 2012 (1 CME).
  • “Rx for Information: Health Information Literacy”, NW Regional Primary Care Association Fall Conference, Seattle, WA, October 2011.
  • “PubMed Pearls”, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Impact 2011, Las Vegas, NV, June 2011 (1 CME).
  • “Health Information Sources for Seniors”, Aging in America Conference, San Francisco, CA, April 2011.

Publications

Publications:

  • “Improving Health Disparities in PA Practices: A Quality Improvement Study”, Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. In press 2019. Zuber, K, McCall, TC, Bruessow, DM, Devine, PJ, Straker, HO.
  • “Librarians and Health Literacy: A scoping review”, Library & Information Science Research. 41(2):102-108, April 2019. Klem, ML, Saleh, AA, Devine, PJ, et al.
  • Invited book chapter: “Social Media and Healthcare: Identifying Value for Patients and Providers”. In Community Building in Libraries (pp. 45-56), 2017. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
  • “Importance of Health Information Literacy” module in Outside the Box: Reducing Health Disparities in Your Practice. Practice Improvement CME, American Academy of Physician Assistants, May 2016.
  • “Health sciences librarians' awareness and assessment of the Medical Library Association Code of Ethics for Health Sciences Librarianship: the results of a membership survey”, Journal of the Medical Library Association, 102(4):257-70. October 2014. Byrd GD, Devine PJ, Corcoran KE.
  • Book chapter: “It Takes a Network: Building Partnerships to Identify, Access and Promote Health Disparities Resources”. In The Impact of Social Factors on Health: A Critical Reader for the Physician Assistant (pp. 75-89), 2014. San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing.
  • “What are the advantages of using social media from a healthcare standpoint?” Guest Columnist, Ask a Librarian, Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, April 2012.
  • “Three Ways Medical Librarians Can Help Improve Hospital Operations and Cost Effectiveness." Guest Columnist, Ask a Librarian, Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, August 2010.

Poster Sessions:

  • Bruessow, D., McCall, TC., Devine, PJ, et al “Opportunities for Health Disparities Related Performance Improvement in PA Practice”, Physician Assistant Education Association Education Forum, Washington, DC, October 2019.
  • Devine, PJ. “Does the Availability of Medical Marijuana Decrease Opiate Use?” Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, May 2018.
  • Devine, PJ. “Strategies for Reducing Suicide: A collaboration in Washington State”, Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, May 2017.
  • Devine, PJ; Nguyen, T. “Resources for Care of Elder LGBT Populations”, Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, Portland, OR, September 2015.
  • Devine, PJ; Anderson, JE: “The Methadone Education Project: Resources for Community Providers”, Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, May 2015.
  • Klem, ML; Devine, PJ; El-Khayat, et al: YM: “Librarians and Health Literacy: A Scoping Review”, Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, May 2015.
  • Honour, JA; Devine, PJ; Burda, M Williams, I: “DOCLINE Training: Making the Most of a Collaborative Model”, Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, May 2015.
  • Anderson, JE; Devine, PJ: “The Methadone Education Project”, American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 2015.
  • Devine, PJ: “Demystifying Methadone Maintenance Treatment: The Role of Medical Librarians”, Pacific NW Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Anchorage, AK, September, 2013.
  • Devine, PJ: “Use of the EHR to Identify and Eliminate Health Disparities”, Medical Librarian Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, May 2013.
  • Devine, PJ; Anderson, JE: “Enhancing Professional Use of Social Media: Creating a Twitter Tutorial for Physician Assistants”, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Impact 2012, Toronto, ON, May 2012.
  • Devine, PJ; Anderson, JE: “On the Same Side: Teaming up with your IT Department”, Medical Library Association, May 2012, Seattle, WA.
  • Devine, PJ: “Playing Small Ball: The Role of Data Collection in Addressing Health Disparities”, Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, May 2012.
  • Devine, PJ; Anderson, JE: “Improving Health Information Literacy by Enhancing Collaboration Between Physician Assistants and Medical Librarians”, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Impact 2011,Las Vegas, NV, June 2011.
  • Devine, PJ; Anderson, JE: “Just Talking About It Helps! Rethinking Information Advocacy to Decrease Health Disparities and Promote Health Equity”, Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, May 2011.
  • Devine, PJ: "Enhancing Care by Connecting Librarians and Clinicians", Medical Library Association, Washington, DC, May 2010.