Healthcare Providers
The health-related internet resources selected for this page have been arranged by broad categories:
Clinical Trials | Dentistry | Disease Reference | Evidence-Based Medicine & Guidelines | Government | Native American | Nurses | Physicians | Patient Information | Public Health | Other | Statistics | Subject Lists | Telehealth
Additional resources can be found on these pages: Community Resources | General Internet Resources
ALASKA RESOURCES
- Pandemic Influenza Information - Starting point for state, national, and international resources
- Pandemic Influenza Brochure - created December 2005
- Pandemic and Avian Flu Resources - Alaska-specific information including what hunters need to know
Alaska Dept of Health and Social Services
Alaska Community Medical Resource Database - maintained by the Alaska State Community Health and Emergency Medical Services
AHELP: The Alaska Health Education Library Project is an electronic clearinghouse of current health promotion and health education resources that are specific to and available in Alaska. It contains information on health promotion programs, projects and materials and more.
Alaska Prevention Partnerships - the source for alcohol and drug abuse resource materials
Healthy Anchorage Indicators - HAI's purpose is to provide information about how the Anchorage community is doing health-wise. Categories include: Alcohol, Disease, Environment, Injury, Lifestyle/Behaviors, Medical Care, Mortality (Death), Social, Tobacco, & Youth.
State of Alaska Behavioral Health
Alaska Mental Health Board - Resource Guide (67 page PDF)
Parents,Inc. - a partnership of Alaska families with disabilities which provides support, training resources, and advocacy statewide.
Alaska Directory of State Officials - prepared by the Legislative Affairs Agency
DENTISTRY
- Dental Terminology
- Dictionary of Dental Terms
- American Dental Association (ADA)
- Arizona Dental Association
- Quality Dentistry
- Prosthodontic and Periodontal Terms
- Dental India
- Websites
- HealthLINKS (UW) - Dentistry
- Academy of General Dentistry
- American Dental Association (ADA Online)
- American Dental Hygienists Association - (ADHA)
- Karolinska Institutet - Stomatognathic Diseases
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
- Dental Listservs
- Books - Fully Searchable
- Burket's Oral Medicine Diagnosis and Treatment - (STAT!Ref)
- Delmar's Handbook of Essential Skills and Procedures for Chairside Dental Assisting - (R2)
- Essentials of Oral Medicine - (STAT!Ref)
- Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
- Merck Manual of Geriatrics
- Full-text Journals
EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE & GUIDELINES
- CDC Recommends - recommendations and guidelines
- CDC's Adult Recommended Immunization Schedule
- CDC's Child/Adolescent Recommended Immunization Schedule
AHCPR - Clinical Information, including Clinical Practice Guidelines
Center for Evidence-Based Medicine - at Oxford University. Note the EBM Toolbox section, especially.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CMA Infobase - features clinical practice guidelines developed by the Canadian Medical Association.
Laboratory Tests - note "critical values". Virginia Commonwealth University
OT Seeker - contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy.
PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence Database - bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines from the University of California, San Francisco.
Psychiatric treatment guidelines for the most difficult questions facing clinicians.
University of Washington Immunization Links
FOCUS ON NURSES
Alaska Dept of Health and Social Services
Healthy Anchorage Indicators - HAI's purpose is to provide information about how the Anchorage community is doing health-wise. Categories include: Alcohol, Disease, Environment, Injury, Lifestyle/Behaviors, Medical Care, Mortality (Death), Social, Tobacco, & Youth.
Internet for School Nurses - created by the medical librarians a the Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, OR.
State Nursing Newsletters - free online access.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Nightingale - College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville provides online links to online resources.
NursingCenter - information about and for nurses. Includes nursing journals, continuing education articles and exams, forum discussions, and much more.
NursingNet - NursingNet's mission is to help further the knowledge and understanding of Nursing for the public, and to provide a forum for medical professionals and students to obtain and disseminate information about Nursing and medically related subjects. This Website is dedicated to the continuing education and involvement of Nursing Professionals and Allied Healthcare providers.
Registry of Nursing Research (RNR) - is an electronic research resource that is maintained by Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), Honor Society of Nursing. It contains information and abstracts from over 13,000 studies.
Springnet - Springhouse Corporation is a leading publisher and information provider. Provides professional information and continuing education for nurses and other health care professionals. Also publishes health and wellness information for consumers.
Worldwide Nursing - Associations, Boards of Nursing, Colleges and Universities, Nursing Bulletin Boards, Newsgroups, Mailing Lists, Continuing Education (Online CEU's, Other CE sites...), Employment, Medical Resources, Specialties, Student Nursing, etc.
FOCUS ON PHYSICIANS
Merck Medicus - free access to MD Consult,
full text medical books and journals, patient handouts, and more.
Sermo - "Know more, Know earlier - an online community where physicians around the nation exchange the latest medical insights with each other and improve patient outcomes - 24/7."
Physicans Guide to the Internet
MedScape: The Online Resource for Better Patient Care - Topics: AIDS,
Infectious Diseases, Managed Care, Oncology, Surgery, Urology, Women's Health. Continuously updated.
The American Medical Association Home Page - full text versions of JAMA, Archives
and others for the last 6 months.
American College of Physicians
OncoLink - University of Penn. Oncology Web Site, updated
constantly, disease oriented menus, vast patient information
Online CME sites:
Electronic CME: Online and Software
Resoures - created by Dr. Lazoff, each listing is well annotated.
Medical Matrix - search engine helps find specific course and each
course has a star rating system.
CME Gateway - accredited online CME courses and publications produced
by the Medical Education Collaborative.
CME Unlimited Online - has 6373 educational titles from universities
and associations.
CME-CE.COM: The Professionals Network is designed to meet the learning
needs of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and allied health professionals.
HealthGate CME Courses - from the Boston University
School of Medicine.
Interactive Patient CME - from Marshall University School
of Medicine.
Medscape CME Center - offers both free and fee-based
continuing education activities. The free programs are on learning modules developed by Medscape under educational
grants and accredited by an ACCME approved sponsor. The fee-based program is available on select medical journal
articles developed by Medscape and other publishers and accredited by an ACCME approved sponsor.
NIH Consensus Statement CME Review
Virtual Lecture Hall - has interactive, online CME courses, averaging $9 or less per credit hour.
Additional "top sites" (using other rating systems):
CancerNet (from the National Cancer Institute) gives a very thorough discussion of most cancers and currently accepted treatment.
Univ. of Washington Radiology Dept is still the state of the art teaching webserver. Interactive learning. Large file of interesting and challenging cases.
PUBLIC HEALTH
- MedlinePlus - Health professionals and consumers alike can depend on this site for information that is authoritative and up-to-date.
- PubMed: Provides free access to MEDLINE; can use Loansome Doc Document Delivery service, linkages to publishers' sites for full-text journals (approximately 100 journals available), some by subscription only, clinical query form with built-in search filters for diagnosis, etiology, therapy, and prognosis, links to molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data.
- Arctic Health: An information portal to issues affecting the health and well-being of our planet's northernmost inhabitants.
- Toxicology Information - Includes TOXNET, TOXLINE, TOXMAP, LactMed, and more.
Public Health Partners - Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries which provides timely, convenient access to selected public health resources on the Internet.
AIDSinfo - Offers the latest federally approved information on HIV/AIDS clinical research, treatment and prevention, and medical practice guidelines.
Alaska, State Public Health Divison - The Division promotes the health and quality of life of all Alaskans by preventing and controlling disease, birth defects, injury, disability and death resulting from interactions between people and their environment.
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials - A national nonprofit organization dedicated to formulating and influencing sound public health policy, and to assuring excellence in state-based public health practice.
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC Wonder - a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data.
Foreign Language Health Education Websites - gathered by Sally Bremner and published in the October 2005 HSIS Newsletter
National Cancer Institute - Comprehensive cancer website. Includes cancer topics, clinical trials, statistics, and research.
National Association of County and City Health Officials - A national organization working to improve the health of all people and all communities by promoting national policy, developing resources and programs, seeking health equity and supporting effective local public health practice and systems.
Training, Online - free online (distance) learning opportunities sponsored by the Public Health Foundation.
GOVERNMENT SITES
Libraries
PubMed: Provides free access to MEDLINE; can use Loansome Doc
Document Delivery service, linkages to publishers' sites for full-text journals (approximately 100 journals
available), some by subscription only, clinical query form with built-in search filters for diagnosis, etiology,
therapy, and prognosis, links to molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data.
Arctic Health: An information portal to issues affecting the health
and well-being of our planet's northernmost inhabitants.
History of Medicine - multiple texts and images (>60,000)
maintained by the National Library of Medicine
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region
(RML in Seattle)
Legislation
Federal Register - this site at NARA gives an explanation of how to use the Register and gives other pertinent links.
THOMAS- follow bills, review votes, or access Congressional Record and committee information; developed by the Library of Congress.
Other
Pandemic Flu - U.S. government site
World Health Organization - very up-to-date information on travel to foreign countries
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health -
complete updates on occupational health
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - travel, immunization, MMWR
STATISTICS
National Center for Health Statistics - Data from birth and death records, medical records, interview surveys, and through direct physical exams and laboratory testing.
Health, United States, 2003:151 tables and 34 charts on trends in health statistic
Fastats: A to Z - health statistics; alphabetically arranged subjects
Fedstats - statistics from over 70 federal agencies
PATIENT INFORMATION
MedlinePlus - from the National Library of
Medicine's, designed to direct you to resources containing information that will help you research your health
questions.
HONselect - healthcare search integrator, combining medical
subject heading terms, scientific articles, healthcare news, Web sites, and multimedia. From Health on the Net
(HON), a major force in improving quality of health information on the Net.
Healthfinder - a gateway to selected consumer
health and human services information resources provided by U.S. government agencies and other organizations
serving the public interest.
Nutrition Facts and Calorie Counter - The data in ND's database comes from the USDA's National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (release 19) and is supplemented by additional listings provided by restaurants and food manufacturers.
EthnoMed - for cultural beliefs in medical
care.
Patient Leaflets: AAFP
Health Insight
Minority Health Information - from the Office of Minority Health, search their database of
publications, programs and organizations.
Consumer Health Resource Center - Oregon Health Sciences Library award-winning collection of consumer health resources.
TELEHEALTH
Telemedicine Information Exchange's Citations from Current Telemedicine Publications
Telemedicine Bibliographic Database - 7,000+ citations of articles, many with abstracts.
DISEASE REFERENCE
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 16th ed, 1992
University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook 2nd ed, 1994
CLINICAL TRIALS
CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service - breaks clinical trials into two sections - one for patients and one for professionals.
Clinical Trials - from the U.S. National Institutes of Health; provides patients, family members and members of the public current information about clinical research studies.
PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials - from the National Center Institute
OTHER SITES OF INTEREST
ACP's Ethics Manual - 4th edition includes new topics such as genetic testing, managed care, organ donation, and disability certification.
DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs. The site is managed by the National Library of Medicine.
Dr. Duke's Phyochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases - allows Plant Searches, Chemical Searches, Activity Searches, Ethnobotany Searches, and has a Database of References.
HCIA Home Page : HCIA develops and markets clinical and financial decision support systems used by hospitals, integrated delivery systems, etc. HCIA maintains the industry’s largest health care database, containing more than 325 million patient discharge records. Each year, HCIA collects data from more than 6,500 hospitals and 35,000 alternative care facilities including nursing homes, retirement facilities, medical rehabilitation facilities, and other providers.