MEDICINE ON THE INTERNET
As the century unfolds, the Internet age is sweeping the medical community. Medical news, physicians online, medical chat rooms for physicians and patients, research, and reference guides, are all available at the touch of the mouse.
Physicians are finding themselves increasingly in need of the Internet, and this trend will undoubtedly accelerate over time. In the very near future using the computer for business functions or the Internet as a tool for business, information and connections will be as commonplace as picking up the telephone.
Politics, National News and Information
American Medical Association
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Agency for Health Care Policy and Research http://www.ahcpr.gov
AMA Journals
www.ama-assn.org/
Aries Knowledge Finder
http://www.kfinder.com/
Bio Med Net
http://www/biomednet.com
Centers for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov
Department of Health and Human Services (U.S.)
This provides links to many other HHS Agencies plus to the Healthfinder network
http://www.os.dhhs.gov.
E-medicine
http://emedicine.com
Healthgate
http://www.com
Healthtalk
This is an interactive web site.
http://www.healthtalk.com
Johns Hopkins Online
This also has links to many other medical sites.
www.jhsph.edu/
Lancet:
www.thelancet.com
Medicare Learning
Network.htm
provides a resource for the Medicare health care
professional.
Medscape
http://www.medscape.com
New England Journal of Medicine
http://www.nejm.org
National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov
Pubmed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nhi.gov/pubmed
Office of the Surgeon General
This also has links to many other medical web sites www.osophs.dhhs.gov/sgoffice.htm
Our Health
http://www.ourhealth.com
Ovid
http://www.ovid.com
Physicians Desk Reference
http://www.pdrnet.com/html/register.htm
Physicians Online
http://www.po.com
Scientific American Medicine
http://www.samed.com
Web MD
http://www.webMD.lycos.com/medcast
Webhealthy.com allows underinsured or uninsured patients to acquire a variety of health care services and procedures (e.g., dentistry, glasses). Consumers could negotiate a fair-market price for commodities are not currently covered by their HMOs. Others (e.g., doctors) could choose to accept the bid or to make a counter offer. The company is based in Tampa, soon to be branching to Atlanta, and then to launch nation-wide.
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Some of the most complete medical resources online as recommended by MSNBC can be gained by searching for: The Mayo Clinic, Health Oasis, and Virtual Hospital online.
AFL-CIO:www.aflcio.org
HHS WEB-SITES
The US Department of Health and Human Services has an extensive web site with HHS Information and a Hotline Directory (www.hhs.gov). When printed in its entirety, it produces eleven pages of topics with their web site links. As a savvy physician, some of these web sites might be of value in your day to day practice. This is a sampling of links:
Aging: www.aoa.gov/elderpage.html
AIDS/HIV www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap.htm
Alcohol www.niaaa.nih.gov
Birth Defects www.nivchd.nih.gov
Cancer www.cancernet.nci.nih.gov
Child Care Info www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ccb
Childhood Immunizations www.cdc.gov/nip
Chronic Diseases www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/index/htm
Diabetes www.niddk.nihgov
Drug Abuse www.health.org
Drugs Adverse Reactions www.fda.gov/medwatch
www.fda.gov/cber/vaers/vaers.htm
Environmental Health www.niehs.nih.gov
Family Planning www.hhs.gov/opa
Foreign Medical Students www.hrsa.gov
Head Injury www.ninds.nih.gov
Hospice www.hcfa.gov/medicare/hosptc.htm
Immunizations www.cdc.gov/NIP
Infectious Disease www.cdc.gov/ncidod/index.htm
Liver Disease www.nhlbi.nih.gov
Medicare www.hcfa.gov
Medicaid www.insurekidsnow.gov
Medigap www.hcfa.gov
Mental Health www.samhsa.gov
Migrant Health www.bphc.hrsa.gov
Minority Health www.omhrc.gov
Rural Health www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov
Sexually Transmitted Disease www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/dstdp.html
Smoking www.health.org
Teen Pregnancy www.teenpregnancy.org
Vaccine Adverse Reactions www.fda.gov/cber
Women’s Health www.4women.gov