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Medical Informatics

• Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare: A Preliminary Roadmap from the Nation's Public and Private-sector Healthcare Leaders
  Author/editor: Markle Foundation
  Date: July 2004
  This report from the Markle Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation details specific actions available to the public and private sectors to advance electronic connectivity and, hence, further the reality of a national health information infrastructure. Adobe PDF
• American Health Information Management Association
  Professional association that represents more than 38,000 specially educated health information management professionals who work throughout the healthcare industry.
• American Medical Informatics Association
  A U.S. association in the United States dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics in the support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.
• American Nursing Informatics Association
  Promotes nursing informatics through networking, education, research, and professional activities.
• AMIA Working Group on Nursing Informatics
  The American Medical Informatics Association NI working group aims to promote the advancement of nursing informatics within the larger multidisciplinary context of health informatics.
• AVI: Association for Veterinary Informatics
  The Association intends to communicate options and unbiased evaluations of existing technology and methods in the management and dissemination of veterinary information.
• British Medical Informatics Society
  UK based membership society.
• Canadian Nursing Informatics Association
  The mission of the CNIA is to be the voice for Health Informatics in Canada.
• Distance Learning in Biomedical Informatics
  Author/editor: William Hersh
  Date: May 2004
  An article from eLearn Magazine describes the goals of OHSU's educational programs in biomedical informatics that train individuals for employment in both academic and industry settings in a variety of jobs involving aspects of information use and technology.
• European Federation for Medical Informatics
  Nonprofit organization concerned with the theory and practice of Information Science and Technology within Health and Health Science in a European context.
• Guide to Health Informatics, 2nd Edition
  By Enrico Coiera, for healthcare professionals who wish to understand the principles of informatics, and the clinical applications of information and communication systems.
• Health Informatics Europe
  Web based journal published by BJHC Limited.
• Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA)
  HISA is committed to the continuing development of member services by contributing its resources to HISA-News, education, research and industry developments, HISA website relaunch, partnerships with external professional organisations and strong communications.
• Health Informatics World Wide
  "The First and Most Comprehensive Health Informatics Index Site."
• Healthcare Informatics
  A monthly business magazine focusing on information technology and healthcare.
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
  A not-for-profit membership organization representing information and management systems professionals in healthcare, providing leadership, education, and networking.
• IMIA Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics
  IMIA-NI is the Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). It is a non profit organization, originally established by IMIA in 1983 as Working Group 8 of IMIA, dedicated to serving the specific needs of nurses in the field of nursing informatics.
• International Journal of Medical Informatics
  The Journal provides an international medium for dissemination of original results and interpretative reviews concerning the field of medical informatics.
• International Medical Informatics Association
  The International Medical Informatics Association is an independent organization established under Swiss law in 1989.
• Journal of Mobile Informatics
  Site dedicated to reviewing IT hardware and software; includes a nursing perspective.
• Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare (UK)
  This online journal aims to improve the quality and safety of patient care, by encouraging and promoting the use of Information Technology (IT) in healthcare. Click on 'Preview' to enter the site and view the journal.
• Medical Informatics & Technology Applications Consortium
  The medical informatics and technology applications consortium (MITAC) is a unique NASA Research Partnership Center (RPC), established to develop, evaluate, and promote information and medical technologies for space flight and ground applications. It is comprised of partners from government, academic institutions and industry that have a commercial interest in products and technology related to telemedicine, medical informatics and medical technology.
• Medical Informatics Departments in the United Kingdom and Europe
  An extensive list of links to medical informatics resources in Europe.
• MedITAC
  The Medical Informatics and Technology Information Consortium.
• Oregon Health Sciences University Division of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology
  Part of OHSU's (Portland, OR) Biomedical Information Communication Center (BICC), the Division of Medical Informatics offers a Master's course in MI and a post-doctoral fellowship program. It also includes an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Evidence-based Practice Center.
• Tech Effect: Better Health Care Through Information Technology
  Author/editor: Tyler Chin
  Date: August 13, 2001
  Physicians, health plans and hospitals must get together to implement the technology to improve care, says an Institute of Medicine report. But even those who wrote the report say that's easier said than done. From Amednews.com
• Telehealth/Medical Informatics
  Telehealth/Medical Informatics from the University of California Davis, in Sacramento.
• The Informatics Review
  The e-journal of the Association of Medical Directors of Information's Systems.

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