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American Medical Informatics Association
AMIA is the leading medical informatics organization in the US. This site contains informatics related position papers, links to educational training opportunities, and information about upcoming conferences and meetings.
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Health Informatics World Wide
A regularly updated index of relevant links to Web sites on health informatics around the world.
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Handbook of Medical Informatics
A practical on-line text, designed as an introduction to basic and advanced informatics topics.
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Overview of Clinical Informatics - University of Washington
This site contains useful overviews of topics in clinical informatics such as the electronic medical record, structured clinical vocabularies, and personal health records.
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Health and Medical Informatics Digest
This page functions as a search engine organized into several topics within medical informatics.
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Artificial Intelligence Systems in Routine Clinical Use
This site offers a tutorial on the role of artificial intelligence systems and clinical decision support systems in medicine along with a list of currently or historically used systems in clinical medical settings. Though not updated since 1999, it is a useful resource.
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The Informatics Review
The Informatics Review is an electronic journal highlighting the latest academic developments and news in clinical informatics.
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Got EHR?
Web site for the national initiative by the American Medical Informatics Association to promote the use of electronic health records, especially to improve patient safety.
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National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics
This National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics site contains clinical calculators, e-tools, access to relevant emergency medicine articles, and online decision support tools.
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Primary Care Internet Guide to Computers & Informatics - University of Bergen
An excellent collection of links to informatics publications, electronic medical record resources, and related organizations and newsgroups.
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Decision Support Links
A useful collection of links to topics in medical informatics such as artificial intelligence, expert systems, clinical guidelines, knowledge representation, and specific decision support applications.
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Medical Informatics Taxonomy
An intuitively organized schematic representation of the field of Medical Informatics with links to term definitions and external Web sites.
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Consumer Project on Technology - Medical Records Privacy
Links to recently published government and public policy institution reports on the protection of health information privacy. Users may also join a listserve on the topic.
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Guidelines for Physician-Patient Electronic Communications - American Medical Association
Guidelines from the AMA guiding physicians how to approach the complex issue of communicating with patients via email.
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Health on the Net Foundation Code of Conduct
A Geneva-based organization offering health-related Web sites an opportunity to earn a symbol of good conduct if certain criteria are adhered to, including provision of medical information only from medically trained professionals, the precept that all information be provided only as an adjunct to the relationship between a physician and a patient, and the clear identification of all reference sources, funding sources, and "last-modified" details.
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American Health Information Management Association
A national organization providing access to news articles and discussion of issues topical to the practical management of health information.
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