Health Care on the Internet

1. Health Care on the Internet By Narinder Singh, Ph.D., MHA

2. General Reference • Martindale's 'The Reference Desk‘ http://www.martindalecenter.com/ • Martindale's Health Science Guide http://www.martindalecenter.com/HSGuide.html • WebMD http://www.webmd.com/ • DrKoop.com http://www.drkoop.com/ • Medscape Today http://www.medscape.com/

3. Government Sites • Official Website for Searching U.S. Government http://www.firstgov.gov/ • The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov • Latest Federal Government Statistics: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/fsbr.html • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/ • Healthy People 2010 http://www.healthypeople.gov/ • Healthfinder http://www.healthfinder.gov/ • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) http://www.cms.hhs.gov/default.asp? • Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/ • CDC WONDER: Health Information Resources http://wonder.cdc.gov/ • National Institutes of Health (NIH) http://www.nih.gov/ • U.S. National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ • MedlinePlus from NLM http://medlineplus.gov/ • MedlinePlus from NLM – Sitemap http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/sitemap.html • Social Security Administration http://www.ssa.gov/ • Food and Drug Administration (FDA) http://www.fda.gov/ • THOMAS --.U.S. Congress on the Internet http://thomas.loc.gov/ • Federal Rules and Regulations http://www.regulations.gov/ • U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/ • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) http://www.samhsa.gov/ • HHS Forms Download Sitehttp://www.hhs.gov/forms/

4. Health Care Information • Health on the Net Foundation http://www.hon.ch/ • The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/ • FDA Drug Information http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/default.htm • National Health Information Center http://www.health.gov/nhic/ • Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body http://www.bartleby.com/107/ • Harvard Medicine http://hms.harvard.edu/hms/home.asp • National Guideline Clearinghouse™ http://www.guidelines.gov • The Merck Manuals http://www.merck.com/pubs/ • WWW Virtual Library: Medicine http://londonbridge.ohsu.edu/wwwvl/all.html • Medicine OnLine http://www.meds.com • HealthGate http://www.healthgate.com/ • MEDLINKS http://www.medlinks.com/links.htm • Medical Terms http://www.medterms.com/script/main/alphaidx.asp?p=a_dict

5. Health Statistics • FedStats Home Page http://www.fedstats.gov/ • Statistical Abstract of the United States: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-04.html • Bureau of Labor Statistics http://stats.bls.gov/ • CMS Data and Statistics http://www.cms.hhs.gov/researchers/statsdata.asp • CDC Data and Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/scientific.htm • National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/index.htm • NCHS – FASTATS http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/Default.htm • NCHS - Surveys and Data Collection Systems http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/express.htm • BRFSS Sitemap http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/ • Data Surveys Index Page http://www.ahrq.gov/data/ • Health Insurance Statistics (Census) http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/hhes/www/hlthins.html • U.S. Census Bureau – TIGER http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/index.html • AMA Physician-Related Data Resources http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2670.html

6. Quality of Health Care • NCQA: National Committee for Quality Assurance http://www.ncqa.org/ • NCQA MCO Accreditation Information http://www.ncqa.org/Programs/Accreditation/accreditation.htm • Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations http://www.jcaho.org/ • Health Care Organizations Accreditation http://www.jcaho.org/htba/index.htm

7. Health Care Associations, Societies • Medical associations/societies http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/medassoc.htm • American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/ • American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/ • World Health Organization (WHO) http://www.who.int/ • American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) http://www.ache.org/ • Mayo Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.org/

8. Health Care Journals • Health Care Journals http://www.docguide.com/dgc.nsf/web-journals?Openform&id=48DDE4A73E09A969852568880078C249 • Medical and Health Journals http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/medjournals.htm • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) http://jama.ama-assn.org/ • New England Journal of Medicine http://www.nejm.org/ • NLM Bookshelf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books • Entrez PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

9. Health Care Research • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) http://www.ahrq.gov/ • CDC Funding Opportunities http://www.cdc.gov/funding.htm • National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/ • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation http://www.rwjf.org/index.jsp • Mathematica Home Page http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/ • The Urban Institute http://www.urban.org/ • RAND http://www.rand.org/ • Kaiser Family Foundation http://www.kff.org/ • National Health Policy Forum (NHPF) http://www.nhpf.org/

10. Health Law • Federal Laws http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm • National Health Law http://www.healthlaw.org/ • LexisNexis http://www.lexisnexis.com

11. Health Policy • Dept of HHS-Asst. Secretary for Policy & Evaluation http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/index.shtml • Electronic Policy Network http://www.movingideas.org/ • National Governors Association http://www.nga.org/ • National Assoc. of State Medicaid Directors http://www.nasmd.org//

12. Kansas Resources • State of Kansas http://www.accesskansas.org/ • Kansas Legislature http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-legisportal/index.do • Kansas Dept. of Health & Environment (KDHE) http://www.kdhe.state.ks.us/ • Kansas Dept. of Social & Rehab Services (SRS) http://www.srskansas.org/ • KS Health Care Data Governing Board http://www.state.ks.us/public/hcdgb/main.html • Blue Skyways of Kansas http://skyways.lib.ks.us/ • Yahoo! - Kansas Resources http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/Kansas/ • Interactive Map of Kansas/KCN http://www.ku.edu/heritage/towns/kanmap.html • KU Medical Center http://www.kumc.edu/