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A
list of some of our favorite Web resources:
Acne Resource Center:
Come to the Acne Resource Center for acne information, treatments and
the latest research. Get plain english answers to all of your acne questions
and breakdown the misinformation and myths about acne. www.acne-resource.org
Acor is an indispensable
tool for navigation cancer information on the web. Tap into the vast knowledge
of other cancer patients and survivors to get the information you need.
www.acor.org
The Advanced Technology
Program (ATP) funds for-profit companies that conceive,
propose, co-fund, and execute technology R&D projects and programs
partnering with academia, independent research organizations, and federal
labs. www.atp.nist.gov
Agency for Health Care Research
and Quality (AHRQ) sponsors and conducts research that provides evidence-based
information on health care outcomes allowing health care decision makers – patients, clinicians, health system leaders, purchasers, and policymakers
– to make more informed decisions. www.ahcpr.gov
American Academy of
Family Physicians (AAFP) strives
to promote the practice of family medicine www.aafp.org. AAFP provides
a forum for comparison of the most popular EMR products on the market.
Products are rated by physicians for physicians. This site is not sponsored
or associated with any of the vendors. www.aafp.org/fpm/20010100/45elec.html
The American College
of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) offers credentialing and educational programs. www.ache.org
The American College
of Physician Executives (ACPE) assists physicians and health care executives
with educational and career development programs. www.acpe.org
American
Hospital Association (AHA) represents and serves all
types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities
by ensuring that members' perspectives and needs are addressed in national
health policy development. www.hospitalconnect.com
The Brint Institute Web site links to a wealth of IT and health care resources. www.brint.com/Medicine.htm
Cap
Gemini Ernst & Young: Information & Research, External
Health Care Resources www.us.cgey.com/ind_serv/industry/health/info_research_links.asp
Dr. Greene: Feel
like you’re visiting a real doctor’s
office. Alan Green a pediatrician in San Mateo provides daily web chats
with users offering practical advice for any parent. This site also includes
news stories, an illustrated encyclopedia and a community of parents
trading advice. www.drgreene.com
Fertility Friend is a web support group
for people trying to conceive. This site offers useful tools such as
ovulation calculators, fertility
charts as wells as a place to track tests, cycles and other issues. www.FertilityFriend.com
JCAHO revises Performance
Areas For 2004 Random Unannounced Surveys. http://www.jcaho.org
Healthcare Informatics a business information technology magazine
for IT decision-making executives and managers in healthcare facilities,
features current news and resource lists. www.healthcare-informatics.com
Health Web is a one stop site brought to you by the
National Library of Medicine. Find information on 70 topics ranging from
Alternative
medicine to Sports Medicine. www.HealthWeb.org
The Leapfrog Group:
a congressionally chartered, independent organization that provides objective,
timely, authoritative information to improve human health. www.leapfroggroup.org
Medline Plus: The
first stop in Internet health search, offering countless links to sites
like clinicaltrials.gov, which list
nearly 11,000 government and privately funded trials. Medlineplus offers
interactive tutorials on 165 different topics. www.medlineplus.gov.
National
Patient Safety Foundation was founded to improve
patient safety in the delivery of health care www.npsf.org.
National Quality Forum created to develop and implement a national strategy
for health care quality measurement and reporting. www.qualityforum.org
Six Sigma Online This
model is a highly disciplined training approach that helps companies focus
on developing and delivering near-perfect products and services. It is
based on the statistical work of Joseph Juran, a Rumanian-born US pioneer
of quality management. www.sixsigmaonline.org.
Telemedicine Information Exchange
offers comprehensive, international, quality-filtered information about
telemedicine and telemedicine related activities. http://tie.telemed.org/
U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services updates
on HIPAA and US government health information
www.os.dhhs.gov.
Your Disease Risk is
an eye-opening site providing risk assessments designed by experts
at Harvard’s
Medical School on cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and osteoporosis. www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu
Accreditation Council for Graduate
Medical Education (ACGME)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association for Cancer Research
(AACR)
American Board of Medical
Specialties
American Cancer
Society (ACS)
American Heart Association
American Medical Association (AMA)
American Medical Women's
Association (AMWA)
Australian Academy of Science
British
Medical Association
Cell Death Society
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
Get-Medical-Insurance.com
Institute of Biomedical Science
Internet Healthcare Coalition
(IHC)
On-HealthCare.com
Pan American Health Organization
(PAHO)
The Physiological Society
The-Health-Insurance-Quotes.com
Royal Society of Medicine
World Health Organization
(WHO)
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