Search/Information Resouces

HCFA

Information resource for the Health Care Financing Administration, the federal agency that administers the Medicare, Medicaid, and Child Health Insurance Programs. Access to current information within the agency and links to other Government agencies are available.

MedicalEdge ***

A good example of an interactive online medical resource for the healthcare consumer. The online drug information data base also includes an ability to order a prescription online. There is also a physician locator and medical reference information.

Once you enter the home page for this site we suggest you select the "Doctor's Guide" link. This site has an international flavor in its medical resources approach. Well presented, fresh information with easy to use links direct you to medical information and resources, patient education materials, and financial and business Internet sources. This is a fairly well rounded site which uniquely advises you as to when referenced links were last updated. The site has gained a number of international awards.

Whether you are interested in searching thousands of medical product and device descriptions and price quotes or not, this unique site has an interesting online "virtual" capability. Most useful for those interested in planning a new medical building, one has a capability to take "virtual" views of a state-of-the-art medical facility. The virtual tour provides information on every product and device within the medical building rooms.  

Online guidelines are easily accessed and downloaded and are available in both English and Spanish for both professionals and consumers. This site is maintained by the U.S. government and the National Library of Medicine stores these electronic versions of guidelines.

Guide to Clinical Preventive Services Online ****

Both reference materials and guidelines for effective clinical preventive services as well as a search engine are contained online. Examples of materials/guidelines include counseling for risk reduction, immunizations for infection prevention, and screening tests for early detection of disease. An ASCII file can also be downloaded for the Guide.

Put Prevention Into Practice (PPIP) Online  ***

This online site is designed to provide primary care providers, their office staff members, and patients with materials to promote and encourage prevention activities. Sponsored by a national, research-based public-private program developed to increase the appropriate use of clinical preventive services. PPIP materials for consumers help patients ask about and keep track of their preventive health care.

Single point of online access to CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data. Valuable resource for healthcare professionals as well as the public. 

The Health Services Research journal provides a very good listing of federal and state government, hospital associations, and university based educational health resources. Surveys and statistics are also included.  All references are hyper-linked for ease of access to the information.

This site provides links to health care outcomes research, applications, examples, references, and criticisms of this newly emerging field of research, study and practice. Provides a good first step in exploring this topic. Also contains links to related areas of informatics, practice guidelines, and performance reporting.

Comprehensive physician locator covers all 50 states and many island destinations covering over 500,000 doctors. Point and click access to not only doctor's name, specialty, address and telephone number, but also board certification and map to office. Physicians may directly access their record and revise information including office hours and other available marketing customization. Special features also allow search by miles within a radius of present location and includes hospitals and health plans as well.

Listing of software vendors and products for the healthcare professional. Provides one-stop shopping for hospitals, clinics, HMO's, PPO's, and other healthcare providers. Not  pretty but extremely easy to understand and use; includes links to hundreds of companies serving the healthcare industry.

An interactive medical network for physicians and the public. Many links, and a great vehicle for searching out physicians.

Achoo On-line Healthcare Services - Home Page

Internet Healthcare Directory (Basic Search or Directory - Human Life, Practice of Medicine, Business of Health, New); Health Features (Healthcare Newsgroup Discussion, Healthcare Headline News); Site of the Week; Achoo E-zine (magazine with a focus on healthcare and related issues).

Contains selcted web sites chosen for their quality and potential usefulness; categories include Basic Sciences; Health Care and Society; Medical; Grants, Writing, and Publishing; Education; Data and Statistics; Health Science Reference; General Reference; and Searching and Internet Tools.

This site provides easy access to comprehensive resource lists in health-related subjects; it is a list of lists, with pointers to the most completed and frequently cited lists in each subject.

Internet navigation tool and information resource in health and medicine.

Medsite

Premier medical search engine; categorizes, reviews, and rates medical web sites; also reviews all sites for their usefulness to Doctors, Researchers, Health Professionals, Medical Students, and the General Public; hosts MedChat.

MedWeb: Educational resources

Allows you to perform a search of educational resources or by words.

The medical manager's online resource; includes Medical Resources, Best of the Web, and MedZone Message Center.

An independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to assessing and reporting on the quality of managed care plans, including HMOs

Breaking medical news for both the healthcare professional and consumer, as well as a searchable archive. Some services, like the drug database and MedLine access are available only through subscription service.

The center of the universe for all members of the kidney cosmos, from patients to professionals. Renal technicians, nurses, social workers, and dietitians can chat with colleagues or shop around for openings at the Job Mart. Kidney patients can search electronically for dialysis units nationwide. Nephrologists can link to resources on transplantation, continuing education, and renal pathology.

This site has a commentary, a new books section, latest additions, the neurology center, Lippincot-Raven publishers, and the Neuro-Graphics Corporation. This site is big, and has a lot of information. It is recommended for anyone who is interested, but especially doctors and health professionals. Worth a visit.

This huge site contains links to different topics, alternative treatments, organizations, commercial information, safer sex information, social services treatment of AIDS related conditions, medical study information and drug trials, statistical reports, other sites, document archives, health care, periodicals, interactive reference, and other documents. This site is wonderful for AIDS patients, medical professionals and family members. Definitely worth visiting.

This is a great site because it offers many links on everything that has to do with respiratory care. You can jump to the Lung Association, or to a tobacco information page. There is a wide range of topics on respiration, you choose. A very good site to visit. For patients, doctors, or other medical professionals.

Sites listed by the following categories: Medical Sites; Patient Education Materials on the Net; Medical Humor; Online ICD-9cm and DRG coding resources; Physician Stress and Satisfaction; Quotes on Medicine and Life; Web Search Engines and Reference Tools; A Collection of other Doctors' Home Pages; Favorite Find of the Week.

Hot Topics; News; General Information; Our Publications; Special Information Programs; Databases and Electronic Information Sources; Grants and Acquisitions; Research Programs; Search This Site.

Information is categorized by provider, then by subject; the Medical Index is under construction (you can download it and search yourself but it requires 124K).

Search with words or by subject; also lists some medical sites, each with a brief description and a link.

This site offers a wealth of some of the best healthcare information on the Internet today.  Special features include resources and demonstration, research, education and links to New York Center for Advanced Technology, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and Columbia University.

Provides a directory of health information systems vendors for hospitals, clinics, HMOs, PPOs, and other healthcare providers.  Special features include flexible approaches to accessing the information and links to vendor Web sites.

The entire U.S. Census Bureau statistical data base is available for download in  Adobe Acrobat (*pdf) format.  Special features include data tables pertaining to healthcare, number and types of HMOs, hospital expenditures, and distribution of physicians by specialty.