Health Information Sites Online
Consumer and medical information sites.
Published May 10, 2005
CBSHealthwatch Description: CBSHealthWatch is a product of Medscape committed to providing authoritative medical content written for the consumer as well as access to the professional-level content of Medscape. Goal is to deliver unsurpassed editorial content and the most comprehensive set of simplified health management tools through current news and customized information. Family Doctor Description:Health conditions from A-Z provided by the American Academy of Family Physicians. InteliHealth (Johns Hopkins) Description: InteliHealth is a joint venture of Aetna U.S. Healthcare® and Johns Hopkins University and Health System. InteliHealth's expert editors "consumerize" health information to make it accessible to the widest possible audience. Information provided by InteliHealth is reviewed and approved by Johns Hopkins. More than 150 top health care organizations contribute to these online and offline ventures, including the NIH, other government agencies, major non-profits, other publishers and news media. MayoClinic Description: MayoClinic.com">, is produced by a team of writers, editors, multimedia and graphics producers, health educators, nurses, doctors, and scientists and represents a natural extension of Mayo's long-standing commitment to provide health education to our patients and the general public. Medical Matrix Description: Medical Matrix is a project of the Internet Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association. It is devoted to posting, annotating, and continuously updating "full content, unrestricted access, Internet clinical medicine resources." The target audience is health care providers who are on the front line in prescribing treatments for disease conditions. It assigns ranks to Internet resources based on their utility for point-of-care clinical application. Quality, peer review, full content, multimedia features, and unrestricted access are emphasized in the rankings. Medscape Description: Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated multi-specialty medical information and education tool through an assortment of specialty sites, primary care medicine sites, and non-clinical sites. The site includes free access to a collection of more than 25,000 full-text, peer-reviewed clinical medical articles, and links to multi-specialty sites, conference summaries, and practice guidelines. New York Online Access to Health Description: NOAH provides high quality full-text health information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and matching grants, NOAH is currently supported in part by Federal Library Services and Technology Act funds, granted by The New York State Library. WebMD Description: WebMD is an Internet-based health care network that connects physicians, hospitals, third-party payors, and consumers to a virtual world of medical information, tools, and services. |