- 3-A Sanitary Standards - Providing material specifications, design criteria and other necessary information for equipment types to satisfy public health concerns. Online ordering available.
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.
www.601help.com
- 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.
www.ahcpr.gov
- 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.
www.aami.org
- 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.
www.publichealthlaw.net
- 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.
www.cerner.com/default.asp
- Division of Laboratory Systems - Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Provides standards and guidelines for laboratories as well as training.
www.phppo.cdc.gov/DLS
- Duke Health Policy Cyberexchange - Portal site for health policy information on the Web.
www.hpolicy.duke.edu/cyberexchange
- 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.
www.ecri.org
- 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.
harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu
- 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.
www.healthtechcenter.org/htc/default.ASP
- 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.
www.himss.org/ASP/index.asp
- 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.
www.mdanderson.org/departments/hsr
- 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.
www.outcomes-trust.org
- 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.
www.angelfire.com/on4/ontariomtovision
- 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.
www.guideline.gov
- 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.
www.ncqa.org
- OECD - Health - Presents publications and statistics from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's work in biotechnology, chemical safety, health and human development, health policy, and health care financing.
www.oecd.org/health
- 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.]
www.melresproj.com
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