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  also for Diagnostic Procedures, etc.
Algorithms, Calculators, Decision Rules, Diagrams, Differential Dx Help, Tables, Scores, Search Tools (See also "Health On the Net," below)

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Health On The Net Foundation's Med Hunt Medical Document Finder

And Or Adj Limit the display of the HONoured database: All Hospitals Support Events Display: 10 20 50 100 Geographic/Domain: All North America Europe South America Asia Middle East Africa Oceania Commercial Educational Organization Government Network Military

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Click the 4Anemia.com for the latest news on fatigue and anemia; how this can affect one's life and current treatment options.

 American Cancer Society

  Quality Breast Cancer Care (NBCC Fund);

National Cancer Institute

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Case Management Resource Guide by Dorland Healthcare Information, a free, searchable database of over 110,000 specialty healthcare services, facilities, businesses organizations.

CMSA, the

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMMS)
Replaces the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Agency (CMS)

The Center for Health Services Financing and Managed Care for the uninsured (formerly, the Center for Managed Care), is a site that offers a coordinated program of technical assistance, training, policy leadership and evaluations to assist HRSA grantees and others ensure the maximum use of Federal grant funds for services.

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DIABETES     The American Diabetes Association

Incremental effectivenss = $ 16,000 per Quality-adjusted life year (QALY) gained in Model of complications of NIDDM. II. Analysis of the health benefits and cost-effectiveness of treating NIDDM with the goal of normoglycemia Diabetes Care 1997 20: 735-744. [Abstract]

"Potential Short-Term Economic Benefits of Improved Glycemic Control A managed care perspective" suggests that, in typical practice, better glycemic control is associated with lower inpatient admissions and costs during a 3-year time period.

Effectiveness of Self-Management Training in Type 2 Diabetes

Certain Letters on Treatment Benefit and cost-effectiveness (C:E)

Physician Non-Compliance in Periodic Diabetes Testing

Most Read Medical News and a Medical Advisory Board

Loss Ratios - See Key Financial Indicators of Health Plans

The Foundation for Accountability, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping Americans make better health care decisions. FACCT believes that America's ability to create a more responsive health care system depends on informed, empowered consumers who help shape the system, hold it accountable for quality and act as partners in improving health. To achieve this goal, FACCT creates tools that help people understand and use quality information, develops consumer-focused measures, supports public education, especially efforts to gather and provide quality information, and encourages health policy to empower and inform consumers. (See the Markle Foundation)

Health Care Plans Listing by Health Insurance In-Depth or AIS's Directory of Health Plans; Is Managed Health Care: The Right Fit? (See also Pam Poly's Net Guide)

HealthEcho.com's mission is to "help business and professional searchers find what they are looking for. Their long term goal is to produce the web's largest and most comprehensive web directory of over 30,000 health-related organizations.

Health Care Plans Listing by Health Insurance In-Depth or AIS's Directory of Health Plans (See Pam Poly's Net Guide)

Gomez Ratings #1 for health content

See HealthFinder.gov's amazing "OnLine Checkups,""Drug Interaction Checker," and "Consumer Guides," for instance.

 the most advanced application of medical informatics
Information Solutions: CVONet, Ovation2K, a Clinical Dashboard that seamlessly integrates: adjudication, appeals, billing, claims processing, credentialling, enrollment, eligibility, med. management, repricing, reporting.

  HIPAA- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
(Public Law 104-191); also known as Administrative Simplification

J. Kaplan. "Confidence in Confidentiality: The Role of the Privacy Officer" Managed Care Interface. October 2001; 4(10):71-75.

  Health & Human Services (HHS.gov)

HMO Data by Interstudy's    Managed Care Links:
Managed Health Care; Health Care Publications; Health Policy and Legislation; Health Care Web Resources; Health Care Association; Quality Mgm't; General Health Care Industry; State and Federal Government

Insurance  HMO and Insurance Company Ratings

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For Internists
Urgent Health Care Communications Site

  First Choice for Healthcare Busienss Intelligence

Trustworthy online health and medical information-- Learn to examine the "health" of online information with the helpful tools and resources on these pages.

Virtual assistant and business support service, Look Good on Paper for all your business support needs - on a virtual basis!

MDRC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization, dedicated to learning what works to improve the well-being of low-income people and enhance the effectiveness of social policies and programs. It was created in 1974 by the Ford Foundation and six federal agencies in the wake of the Great Society antipoverty programs of the 1960s. Lacking clear measures of their effectiveness, these programs were the subject of both unsubstantiated claims of success and criticism by anecdote, with no firm legacy to inform future efforts. MDRC is building a body of unassailable evidence about whether social programs do or do not work and what to do about them, if they do not work well.

A guide for managed care executives and physicians
Covers capitation, compensation, contracting, disease management, ethics, NCQA accreditation/HEDIS®, formulary development, health insurance issues, practice management.

Managed Healthcare Executive offers insight to healthcare providers, executive officers and management specialists to help them contain costs and improve the quality of care.

Managed Care Interface by Medicom International, Inc.—the first peer-reviewed journal for the managed care industry, available for all your managed care needs; Medicom Excel: A guide to our health care communications and medical education services and products.

DXplain gets you multiple sites searches and patient education materials with a single query + CME credits that you can track online and offline + MD Consult—Available to licensed physicians only, it is a comprehensive collection of resources including 38 leading textbooks, full-text articles from more than 50 leading journals, and over 600 peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines; Cecil Textbook of Medicine; Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine with board review, and late-breaking clinical trial data.
: Guide to Internet Clinical Medicine Resources (Registration, Required)

Medline/Medlars PubMed

Medline - Facilitated Searches by Medscape

— a free directory of selected medical sites on the Internet. Each has been carefully evaluated by a panel of physicians and medical librarians for information quality and site usability, with an emphasis on usefulness to healthcare practitioners.

FINAL CONSENSUS STATEMENT NOW AVAILABLE:
Diagnosis and Management of Dental Caries Throughout Life March 26-28, 2001
MOST RECENT CONFERENCES:
Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer November 1-3, 2000
Phenylketonuria (PKU): Screening and Management October 16-18, 2000
Antenatal Corticosteroids Revisited: Repeat Courses August 17-18, 2000
Osteoporosis Prevention, Diagnosis, and Therapy March 27-29, 2000

NIH's OnLine Consumer Health Information

New England Journal of Medicine

News on Health--New York Times*
* Free Registration Required

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Osteoporosis , Veritas Medicine is a free confidential resource providing access to clinical trials and information on treatment options.  

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Public Information Resources, Inc.

facilitating and managing business-to-business relationships in the global healthcare market.

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Note: The bulk of this Section is varied and complex; thus, the need for an alphabetical mini-list called "Anchors"--sort of a table of contents.

We rely on Donabedian's rubric of Structure, Process and Outcome as a typology. 
   

Donabedian A. Basic approaches to assessment: structure, process, and outcome. In: The Definition of Quality and Approaches to Its Assessment. Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration Press; 1980:77-128.

For a more complete explanation of this typology for health care (click here)

Among the Top 10

Ascertaining the quality of online health information: key questions

Health6.com Comprehensive Human-Edited Health Web Directory

1Up Health has as extensive information from trusted sources such as A.D.A.M. on over 4,000 topics including diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, surgeries, nutrition, poisons, and special topics. There is also focus on family and community health. And, it is updated daily. Unfortunately, this site does not proffer personal guidance. The information contained therein is not intended to diagnose or treat a health problem or disease without consulting with a qualified healthcare practitioner.

Beaucoup.com for an interesting consumer medicine site

DiscussionDirectory.com comprehensive web directory collects and makes more accessible various companies' and organizations' web sites. Acknowledging that " the Internet is an overwhelming space and finding just the information you need can still be a frustrating and time-consuming process," they make "great effort to evaluate the existence and accuracy of each company's website."

Go Ask Alice is Columbia University's Internet Health Question and Answer service--It houses nearly 2,000 previously-posted Q&A's.

Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database is an annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art which was developed to be a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource in MEDICAL HUMANITIES, for use in health/pre-health and liberal arts settings.

Netiquette - etiquette on the internet

Virtual Hospital contains related resources