What is Pointis?

PoinTIS - Point of Care, Team-based Information System.
PoinTIS is a WWW, world wide website, that provides comprehensive information on spinal cord injury rehabilitation and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation for health care providers, patients and patient's families.  PoinTIS is readily accessible at the point-of-care and along the entire continuum of patient care. PoinTIS provides ready and specific access to:

KIT, Knowledge-based Information Tutorial, an online interactive tutorial to learn how to:
· Recognize an information need
· Formulate the need as a search query
· Identify the best potential sources from the             RehabTeam Site
· Establish the best sequence of sources to fill the need
· Modify and then execute the formulated query based on      the structure and retrieval mechanisms of each source         selected.
· Redefine the search strategy
· Evaluate and select from the documents retrieved
· Evaluate and intergrate the actual information retrieved       into the clinical care situation

Handbooks for Patients and Providers, online manuals which organize information on diseases and rehabilitation processes for each member of the rehabilitation team, patients and their families to support patient care and patient education.

Search the Journal Literature / Procure Articles, the Medicine database is freely accessible to all via PubMed. Photocopies of Journal articles can be ordered and some of Fulltext articles can be accessed via PubMed.

Best Practice Sources, important news items and clinical alerts in rehabilitation medicine, discussion groups/lists and archives for effective communication between members.