Health Care on the Internet

By Narinder Singh, Ph.D., MHA

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/

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/

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

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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

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

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/

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?

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/

Health Law

• Federal Laws http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm

• National Health Law http://www.healthlaw.org/

• LexisNexis http://www.lexisnexis.com

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//

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/