Alaska Medical Library - http://www.consortiumlibrary.org/aml/

Healthcare Provider Websites

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

Additional resources: Consumer Health Websites

Web-based Health Videos

ALASKA RESOURCES

DENTISTRY

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE & GUIDELINES

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)

    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.

    NursingCenter.com - Over 900 CE activities and thousands of clinical articles.

    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

Online CME sites:

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

  • 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

National Library of Medicine

  • 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

STATISTICS

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.

DISEASE REFERENCE

CLINICAL TRIALS

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.

ALASKA NATIVE, AMERICAN INDIAN, AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RESOURCES