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Academic Medical Centers & Practice

Association of American Medical Colleges: Includes list of teaching hospitals.

Cyberspace Hospital & Medical School: Organized by hospital and academic department with links to other Internet sites.

Virtual Hospital: Includes case studies, medical texts, multimedia educational materials, and many other resources.

Clinical

American Hospital Publishing, Inc.: Contains online versions of publications including Hospitals & Health Networks, American Hospital Association News and Trustee, plus a catalog of books of interest to health care professionals.

Clinmark Dotcom: Online clinical research community focusing on the needs of clinical research sponsors, investigators and others involved with development of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and diagnostic products.

Cyberounds: Interactive grand rounds moderated by distinguished academics, exclusively for physicians, medical students and other selected medical professionals.

Cyberspace Hospital & Medical School: Organized by hospital and academic department with links to other Internet sites.

Disease Management: Developed by Greenstone Healthcare Solutions, subsidiary of The Upjohn Co. Includes a discussion area as well as information sheets related to disease management.

HealthGate: Provides free access to Medline, the National Library of Medicine's clinical database, and access to many other databases for a fee.

Hospital Web: Links to hospitals’ home pages

Genetic Information: Mendelian Inheritance of Man provides clinical synopsis of genetic disorders, including mode of inheritance, and a bibliography of resources.

Internet Medical Terminology Resources: Provides access to ICD-9, DRGs, medical vocabularies, standards, and terminology.

Martindale's Health Science Guide: Multimedia resources with teaching files, medical cases, textbooks, and movies.

Medscape: Includes access to the Medline database for searching clinical literature. Also provides access to full-text articles and graphics. You must register to search Medscape's resources.

Mayo Clinic: Information on Mayo's patient care, education and research programs.

Oregon Health Sciences University Dept of Medicine: Includes resources from the University, with emphasis on Internal Medicine, and an index to clinical information on the World Wide Web

St. Mary's Hospital: Includes consumer health information, online medical journals, and interactive sites.

Virtual Hospital: Includes case studies, medical texts, multimedia educational materials, and many other resources.

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Biosciences - Medicine: Indexes and search tools for locating clinical resources on the Internet.

Alternative Medicine:: Chiropractic Online; Information for consumers, chiropractors and other health professionals (American Chiropractic Association).

Homeopathic Internet Resource List: Links to networks, research, journals, & organizations related to homeopathy

American Association of Naturopathic Physicians: Publications, news and other information about naturopathic medicine.

Computers & Information Systems

Community Health Management Information Systems (CHMIS) Resource Center: Includes information on community health information networks (CHINs), community health management information systems and regional health information networks.

Computer-Based Patient Record Institute (CPRI): Includes information on standards, confidentiality, and developments, along with a products catalog and upcoming events.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society: Information about the association and links to Internet sites related to information systems and medicine.

Medical Informatics/Hardin Meta Directory: Links to medical informatics resources in the U.S. and around the world.

Medical Records Institute: Organization’s purpose is to promote electronic health records. Site includes information about standards and abstracts of newsletters.

Telemedicine Information Exchange, Telemedicine Research Center: Information on telemedicine projects and research, funding sources, conferences, legal and ethical issues, products and services and bibliography with abstracts.

Telemedicine Resources and Services: Telemedicine information from the University of Texas and other sources.

Financial Management

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): Web site for the Workgroup on Electronic Data Interchange. Lists education programs, seminars, publications, and workgroup committees and contacts related to difference aspects of electronic data interchange (EDI).

Healthcare Financial Management Association: Information about association activities, publications, etc.

Healthcare Expenditures: Bureau of Labor Statistics news releases on healthcare expenditures, CPI, and other employment statistics.

Government Relations & Legal Issues

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR): Includes practice guidelines developed by agency.

Census information: US Bureau of the Census: Contains frequently referred to tables from major publications. Information on obtaining complete reports.

Centers for Disease Control: Includes Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report & CDC daily summaries. Guidelines and results of research projects on diseases, accidents, infection control, preventive medicine, etc.

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Consumer Price Index: Site includes news releases, databases, tabled data related to CPI and other employment statistics.

Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS): Includes press releases, policy information, fact sheets.

Federal Register & Congressional Record: Library of Congress Site for Federal Congressional & Legislative Information
House of Representatives
GPO Access. Includes Federal Register

Federal Web Locator: Provides links to Federal government servers on the World Wide Web.

FEDWORLD: Links to more than 100 agency bulletin boards

Food and Drug Administration: Site includes safety alerts, agency announcements, and drug and medical device approvals.

Health Care Financing Administration: Resources include Medicare Handbook, Medicaid and Medicare statistics, payment and AAPCC rates, regulations & proposed rules, and staff contacts.

Health Care Liability Alliance: Information regarding health care injury disputes, section on health care quality and patient safety, federal and state legislation related to liability reform

Internal Revenue Service: Accessed via the US Treasury home page. Includes tax forms in ".pdf" file format. Download Adobe Acrobat Reader from site to read .pdf files.

Library of Congress: Includes status of current legislation, full text of some public laws, gateway to full text of house bills

National Center for Health Statistics: Health care statistics from the Center for Disease Control. Summary data & fact sheets from reports. Ordering information for complete reports.

National Conference of State Legistures (NCSL): Links to state government sites which track state legislation activity and contain texts of bills.

National Institute of Health: Includes CDC statistics, Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Reports, AIDS info.

National Library of Medicine: Locator: telnet to locator.nlm.nih.gov ; login as locator
HSTAT: select NLM online information services ; HSTAT
HSTAT has full text of practice guidelines & other documents

OCHAMPUS: Department of Defense' civilian health benefits program and the department's primary health services contracting agent. Site includes regulations, manuals, reports, and handbooks.

OSHA Standards: Full text of CFR 40 & MSDS safety data sheets. Information on OSHA regulations

Thomas: Comprehensive resource for congressional information, including bill summaries and status, laws, Congressional Record index and text, committee information and historical documents. Includes searchable databases; maintained by the US Library of Congress.

US House of Representatives: Information on bills, resolutions, House schedule, and how to contact representatives.

US Senate: Information on legislative activities, committees, Senate members and leadership, history, etc.

Virtual Medical Law Center - Legal Issues: Part of Martindale’s Health Science Guide, provides links to other Internet sources by topic.

Managed Care & Integration

American Association of Health Plans

Source for information on HMOs and other health plan models. Site includes table of contents of journals with full text of major articles, publications catalog, and links to members’ sites. (Formed by the joining of Group Health Association of America and American Managed Care Review Association)

Community Health Management Information Systems (CHMIS) Resource Center

Includes information on community health information networks (CHINs), community health management information systems and regional health information networks.

Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)

HMO directories

HMO Smart Pages. Includes HMO enrollment, service area, etc.
HMO Locator. Includes HMO enrollment, expenses, revenue.

Managed Care Forum Web

A product of the American Medical Specialty Organization (AMSO), their goal is to impart information and promote understanding of the volatile healthcare industry. Their Managed Care Forum web page has a weekly healthcare related poll question regarding issues surrounding managed health care. Includes open discussion forums on related topics.

National Association of Managed Care Physicians

The mission of the association is to "enhance the ability of practicing physicians and other health care professionals to succeed in managed care environments."

Medical Records

American Health Information Management Association: Includes full text of most recent journal issues; career and education information for health information management and medical records.

Computer-Based Patient Record Institute: Includes information on standards, confidentiality, and developments of electronic medical records.

Medical Records Institute: Organization to promote electronic health records. Site has information about standards; includes abstracts of newsletters.

Mid-Level Providers & Allied Health Care

Midwifery Information: Includes articles about midwifery and links to publications & other resources

American College of Nurse Midwives: Includes list of contacts for locating midwives.

National Health Care Skill Standards Project: For voluntary skill standards for health care workers.

American College of Nurse Practitioners
Nursing: Resources for education, research, and clinical nursing.

Nursing: Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN): News releases, journal articles, and legislative updates.

Nursing & Allied Health Internet Resource Directory
Physicians Assistants: Education, job announcements, CME programs for PAs.

Professional Sites for Allied Health Staff: Links to Internet resources for a variety of allied health personnel.

Telephone Triage Nursing: Description and information about telephone triage nursing, publications, conferences, and employment opportunities.

Patient Education & Consumer Health

American Family Physician Patient Information Handouts: Handouts published by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Topics include diabetes, pregnancy, sleeplessness, herpes, and others.

Columbia Consumer Health Information: Maintained by Columbia Healthcare, their consumer health information page provides information by topic, and answers to recently asked medical questions.

Department of Health and Human Services: Consumer Health Information: Provides access to health information publications developed by different agencies within the Department.

Global Health Network: Emphasis on disease prevention. Links to government and nongovernment health organizations/subject-categorized resources; conventions and workshops; grants and job opportunities around the world. Information is provided in other languages.

Healthtouch Online: Includes information about prescriptions and medications, health organizations and government agencies, diseases, health, and wellness information.

HealthWeb: Resource of select health information, including consumer information.

Mastercard: Includes information on how to choose health insurance and a health care provider, lists relevant associations and hotlines, and patient information materials.

Med Help: Providers users with reports on consumer health issues from Med Help International’s resources and by linking to other sites. Some materials are available by subscription only.

The Medical Reporter: Monthly educational magazine for health care consumers. Emphasizes preventive medicine; primary care; patient advocacy, education and support; and subspecialty medical topics.

Netwellness: Patient information arranged by topic, latest news releases, and Ask an Expert option.

New York Times Your Health Daily: Access to their Latest News features, click to find more information on Common Topics, conduct keyword searches, find more topics and join discussion groups.

Patient/Consumer Health Information: Developed by Dykes Library, Kansas University Medical Center. Provides an indepth indexing for links to Internet resources on specific patient health issues.

Wellness Web: Well organized and well written patient education materials. Includes links for further information.

Physicians & Medical Directors

American College of Healthcare Executives: Information about the association, publications, & education programs.

American College of Physician Executives: Information about the association, publications, education programs, & certification.

American Hospital Publishing, Inc.: Contains online versions of publications including Hospitals & Health Networks, American Hospital Association News and Trustee, plus a catalog of books of interest to health care professionals.

American Medical Association: Information about the AMA and its resources; includes index and text of their Journal (JAMA) and other publications.

Doctor's Guide to the Internet: Patient informaiton and resources on specific diseases, medical news, conferences, forums, financial and business resources, and practice opportunities.

Merrit Hawkins Practice Opportunity Network: Physician employment opportunities.

Physician’s Guide to the Internet: Links to Internet sites of specific interest to physicians.

WebDoctor: Links to sites by specialty and disease, includes online journals.

Practice Management & Health Administration

Achoo Online Healthcare services: A comprehensive resource for health related materials on the Internet. Contains current news about the medical industry. Enables users to search the Internet health newsgroups for specific topics of interest.

American College of Healthcare Executives: Information about the association, publications, & education programs.

American College of Physician Executives: Information about the association, publications, education programs, & certification.

Center for Health Administration Studies: Information about research projects and data libraries.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): Web site for the Workgroup on Electronic Data Interchange.

Guide to Health Care Statistics: A comprehensive list of sources for health care statistics. Maintained by a library so there are references to the library's resources.

HCIA-Mercer's Health Information: Lists publications and source databases. Provides statistical resources for benchmarking, best practices, outcomes, cost management, etc. Includes a list of top 100 hospitals.

Health-Connection: Comprehensive directory featuring sections on hospitals, nursing homes, home health care agencies, health care professionals, financial information, health and medical insurance information, health care industry suppliers and vendors, medical information and health care associations.

Health Administration Resources: Provides links to many Internet resources related to health administration.

Health Economics, Medicine & Pharmacy: Links to resources about health economics, quality of life, pharacoeconomics, medicine, pharmacy.

Internet Links for Health Managers: Links to Internet health administration resources maintained by the Administrative Medicine Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The Medical Leadership Forum: Through educational programs, publications and research materials, the Medical Leadership Forum assists major U.S. healthcare organizations in developing their physician leaders into effective members of their boards of trustees and senior management.

MedWeb: Extensive links to Internet health resources arranged by topic, produced by Emory University.

Modern Healthcare: Access to full text of the weekly magazine. Free to search the most recent issues; a charge for searchin the complete database.

Reuters Health Information Service: Health care related news service with clinical, legislative, and industry news.

Quality, Practice Guidelines, Outcomes

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR): Includes the practice guidelines this agency has developed.

Avicenna Systems Corp: Provides access to abridged versions of Best Outcomes Benchmarks, Outlines in Clinical Medicine, and the National Drug Data File, along with other resources. Full data sets are available for an additional cost.

Center for Health Education: Critical paths, case management, discharge planning, outcomes, guidelines.

Disease Management
Foresighted Practice Guidelines: Information about foresighted practice guidelines as well as the complete guidelines.

HCIA-Mercer's Health Information: Lists publications and source databases. Provides statistical resources for benchmarking, best practices, outcomes, cost management, etc. Includes a list of top 100 hospitals.

Health Economics, Medicine & Pharmacy: Links to resources about health economics, quality of life, pharacoeconomics, medicine, pharmacy.

Health Information Resources & Services (HIRS): Community health resources, community assessment, health status surveys.

Healthcare Quality Assessment: Lists courses dealing with quality, links to other sources, online documents and links to documents, references, services, Baldridge-based state awards, and links to quality assessment sites.

Healthcare Quality Resources: Links to a variety of quality-related resources.

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations: Information about accreditation, standards, and performance measurement. Includes article abstracts.

Medical Group Management Association: Providing resources for medical practice management and leadership, who has graciously helped accumulate many of these resources.

National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA): Information on NCQA's primary managed care quality improvement activities in accreditation and the HEDIS performance measurement set. Ability to search individual plan accreditation status.

Outcomes Assessment and Research
Radiology Society of North America (RSNA): Catalog of learning resources. Links to practice guidelines and other radiology resources.

RAND, including RAND Health Sciences Program: Information on products and research, including SF-36 Health Survey.

Specialty Services

American Academy of Dermatology: Specialists' resources include educational resources, university resources, and Internet links. For patients there is patient educational materials and a list of patient support groups related to skin problems.

American Academy of Family Physicians: Includes information on patient education, managed care, and clinical policies.

American Academy of Ophthalmology: Includes anatomy of the eye; learning disabilities and vision problems; eye diseases, conditions & surgery.

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons: Site includes text of journals, reports, patient education materials, and medical education information.

American Academy of Pediatrics.: Resources for Pediatricians and families.

American College of Physicians: Provides information of interest to Internists.

Emergency Medicine & Primary Care Home Page: Includes emergency medicine job listings and a clinical case competition for EM residents along with resources for primary care physicians.

Obstetrics and Gynecology:
American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists: Postgraduate courses, meetings, and information on a patient education product.

OBGYNet: This site offers one-stop shopping for Internet resources related to obstetrics and gynecology.

Pathology and Laboratories:
College of American Pathologists: Site includes materials on Laboratory Improvement/Practice which includes accreditation, standards and reference manuals, and CAP's Management and Index Program.

National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards: Standards, guidelines, and documents describing laboratory procedures, benchmarks, reference methods, and evaluation protocols.

Laboratory Home Page of the Global Health Network: A comprhensive list of links including directories, laboratory resources, journals, professional organizations, and employment services. The site takes a while to load but is worth the wait.

Primary Care Physicians, Resources for: Subspecialists directory, articles of interest to primary care physicians, links to Web Site of the Month.

Radiology Society of North America (RSNA): Catalog of learning resources. Links to practice guidelines and other radiology resources.

Telemedicine Information Exchange, Telemedicine Research Center: Information on telemedicine projects and research, funding sources, conferences, legal and ethical issues, products and services and bibliography with abstracts.

Telemedicine Resources and Services: Telemedicine information from the Univ of Texas and other sources.