National Guideline Clearinghouse:
A comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice
guidelines and related documents for physicians, nurses, and other
health professionals. Includes abstracts, a utility for comparing
attributes of two or more guidelines in a side-by-side comparison,
an electronic discussion forum, and links to other resources.
http://www.guideline.gov/
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - AHRQ:
Formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Provides
practical health care information, research findings, and data to
help consumers, health providers, health insurers, researchers, and
policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues.
http://www.ahcpr.gov/
Center for Law and the Public's Health:
Information on the Center at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown
Universities. Features resources on public health law, ethics, and
policy for public health practitioners, lawyers, policy-makers, and
scholars.
http://www.publichealthlaw.net/
Division of Laboratory Systems:
Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Provides
standards and guidelines for laboratories as well as training.
http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/DLS/
3-A Sanitary Standards:
Providing material specifications, design criteria and other
necessary information for equipment types to satisfy public health
concerns. Online ordering available.
http://www.3-a.org/faq.html
601Help:
Provides information about compliance with IEC 60601-1, the
international product safety standard for electrical medical
equipment, as well as the standard's national variants. Includes
explanations and interpretations of requirements, links to other
sites, and articles on related subjects.
http://www.601help.com/
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation:
Provides multidisciplinary leadership and programs that enhance the
ability of the professions, health care institutions, and industry
to understand, develop, manage, and use medical instrumentation and
related technologies safely and effectively.
http://www.aami.org
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Health Services Research:
Promotes oncology research, developing standards for quality patient
care, and facilitating oncology health policy at state, national and
international levels. Contains information on research programs,
policy statements, and publications.
http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/hsr
MTO Negligence: Ontario, Canada:
Describes how decisions resulting in revocation of driver's licenses
are based on diagnosis of visual deficiency rather than ability to
operate a motor vehicle safely. Provides advice and links to related
web sites.
http://www.angelfire.com/on4/ontariomtovision
HealthTechCenter:
A research and education organization dedicated to providing
information to healthcare organizations about the future impact of
technology on healthcare delivery. Provides in-depth, objective data
about emerging healthcare technologies and their potential impact on
clinical outcomes, financial performance, facility design, and
market strategy.
http://www.healthtechcenter.org/htc/default.ASP
Medical Outcomes Trust:
Dedicated to improving health and health care by promoting the
science of outcomes measurement, and the development, evaluation and
distribution of standardized, high quality instruments that measure
health and the outcomes of medical care. Includes online
publications.
http://www.outcomes-trust.org/
ECRI:
Formerly Emergency Care Research Institute, the agency provides
publications, information, and consulting services internationally
for healthcare technology and patient safety. Includes
classification guides, evaluation services, clinical alerts, data
bases, and links to related sites.
http://www.ecri.org/
NCQA: National Committee for Quality Assurance:
Provides information about the quality of national managed care
plans to enable consumers to evaluate health plan performance.
Includes links to accreditation and certification programs,
compliance audits, health plan report cards, and credentialing data.
http://www.ncqa.org/
Melanoma Research Project Network:
Comprehensive information on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of
melanoma and skin cancer. Includes decision-finding and
self-examination modules, interactive sessions, publications, and
links to related sites. [May not support all browsers.]
http://www.melresproj.com/
Cerner Corporation:
Designs clinical information systems and financial applications to
improve health care delivery. Products and services integrate
information technology and health care issues, such as patient
safety, e-health, and operational performance, for use by
physicians, hospital administrators, pharmacists, and patients.
http://www.cerner.com/default.asp
Harvard Business Online:
Offers electronic access to current and past Harvard Business Review
articles and collections, Harvard Business School Press books,
cases, newsletters, eLearning programs. Provides research on
business topics, including leadership, strategy, communication, and
organizational development.
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/
HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society):
Provides leadership in healthcare for the management of technology,
information and change through publications, educational
opportunities and advocacy. Includes publications, research, online
course, and related resources.
http://www.himss.org/ASP/index.asp
International Association of Health Policy:
International network of scholars, health workers and activists with
the aim of promoting the scientific analysis of public health
issues.
http://www.healthp.org/
