Health Care

AHIP - America's Health Insurance Plans

AMA - American Medical Association

Features include: Physician Select service, which provides information on virtually every licensed physician in the U.S. and a browser for the Physicians and Medical Students Product Catalogues.

CDC (Center for Disease Control) WONDER System

Provides a single point of access to a variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

California HealthCare Foundation

Center for Studying Health System Change

The Commonwealth Fund

Consumer Guide to HealthCare - WI

For help with health plan problems, site includes a special guide to help figure out who to call or write to for healthcare problems, coverage complaints, etc.

CoveringTheUninsured

Employee Benefit Research Institute

Families USA

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Topics include: Food, Human Drugs, Biologics, Animal Drugs, Cosmetics, Medical Devices, Children & Tobacco Regulations, Medical Products Reporting, Etc.

Health.gov

Index of health-related federal government sites

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Provides direct link to HCFA, the federal agency that administers the Medicare, Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Programs.

Health Choice Network (HCN)

HCN is the international eyes and ears for alternative health information!  Topics include: Hints for Eating, Education, Friends Helping Friends, How To Screen A Practitioner, etc.

Health Coverage Guide

 Healthfinder™

A consumer health and human services information web site from the U.S. government. Includes selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.

Health Grades

The Healthcare Quality Experts

Clinical Tools

Provides educational resources and materials for individual, child and family health related problems.

AHIP - America's Health Insurance Plans

iInsurance Quotes :

Health Research and Educational Trust

www.intelihealth.com

John Hopkins Health Information

Kaiser Family Foundation

Managed Care Digest

The Aventis Pharmaceuticals Managed Care Digest Series™ provides key data on the evolution of health care. This series, available online or in print, contains information that can help develop strategies, control costs and assess value by providing real-world applications for information management coupled with the latest health economic data.

www.medicinenet.com

Health care information provided by board-certified physicians. 

www.medscape.com

For health care professionals - online resource for better patient care.

March of Dimes

March of Dimes - Southeaster Wisconsin Chapter, includes health information for pregnant women and new mothers.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 CDC is the primary Federal organization responsible for the collection, analyses, and dissemination of health statistics.  Site allows viewers to select publications and statistical tables, download selected public-use data files, conduct on-line database queries and searches in Wonder, track progress toward Healthy People 2000 Objectives, or access FASTATS
from A-Z. The site also contains information about each NCHS survey and data system, special programs and activities, etc.

National Institues of Health

National Library of Medicine

The U.S. National Library of Medicine is the world's largest research library in a single scientific and professional field.  Includes all major areas of the health sciences - from medical history to biotechnology.  Housed within the Library-- books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, and pictorial materials as old as pre-1914 to current, including rare medical texts, manuscripts, etc. 

Organ Donation

Provides information and resources on organ donations and transplantation issues.

Solucient

Web-based access to HCIA's databases and analytical resources used to benchmark clinical performance and outcomes, profile best practices, and manage the cost and delivery of health care.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Talking Quality HealthCare

A site that supports efforts to educate and inform consumers about health care quality.

United Health Care   


U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

ASHA is the professional and scientific association for more than 96,000 speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States and internationally.

Association of Private Pension and Welfare Plans

The Association of Private Pension and Welfare Plans is "The Benefits Association": a public policy organization serving as the preeminent advocate of employer-sponsored benefit programs in Washington, DC.

Employee Assistance Professionals Association

EAPA represents more than 7,000 individuals and organizations with an interest in employee assistance in 103 chapters around the globe.

Employee Benefit Research Institute

Part of the EBRI, this site is focused on advancing the public’s, the media’s and policymakers’ knowledge and understanding of employee benefits. Includes great links to many other useful and interesting sites.

Family Caregiver Alliance

Family Caregiver Alliance offers detailed fact sheets on diseases, disorders and caregiving issues. The site’s special section on work and eldercare includes commentary on the Family and Medical Leave Act by one of that law’s key architects. And the organization’s online support group connects caregivers via e-mail in an exchange of ideas and emotions.

HIPAAdvisory

News, regulations, legislative updates and loads of FAQs about the Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). From Phoenix Health Systems.

Medical Economics

Medical Economics Company provides high-quality healthcare information publishing and communications products and services, including magazines, directories, references, newsletters, databases, and new media.

National Alliance for Caregiving

The Alliance works with national organizations to conduct surveys on family caregiving. Recent reports, available for download on the site, deal with subjects such as the effects on families caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease and women trying to juggle caregiving and work.

National Association of Dental Plans

The National Association of Dental Plans (NADP) has issued its dental benefits enrollment survey, a total market estimate on dental benefits. NADP is a resource of the network-based dental plan industry.

National Council for Prescription Drug Programs

Creates and promotes data interchange standards for the pharmacy services sector of the healthcare industry, and provides information and resources that educate the industry and support the diverse needs of its members.

Risk Insurance Management Society

RIMS provides health benefit administration software solutions for managed care and fee-for-service plans.

Self-Insurance Institute of America Inc.

National trade association representing the self-insurance/alternative risk and financing industry.

Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

An association of human resources professionals with more than 100,000 members and hundreds of chapters throughout the world.

The Aging of Aquarius: The Baby Boom Generation Matures

This Segal special report uses a question and answer format to identify employment-related demographic trends and issues -- with an emphasis on the maturation of the Baby Boom generation.

Wellness Councils of America

WELCOA has partnered with corporations, hospitals, universities and governmental agencies to design and deliver comprehensive wellness initiatives that address employee health and well being, productivity, safety, and work and family issues.

www.webmd.com

For consumers and health professionals, health and wellness information.