The Cochrane Library is a collection of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Six databases are available including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and a register of controlled trials.
"NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health and medical research. The NIH website offers health information for the public, scientists, researchers, medical professionals, patients, educators, and students."
As a federally-designated “Regional Extension Center,” the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program (NC AHEC) provides individualized, on-site electronic health record (EHR) consulting tailored to your practice’s specific needs at no charge to you.
The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA) is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to assisting members in accelerating the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system through the effective use of information technology, informatics and analytics.
"Inspired by the Code For America project. Code For Health develops fellowships for software developers, IT specialists and bioinformaticists seeking a career in health IT. We help fellows gain experience while they advance projects that serve the medically and economically disadvantaged, or the achievement of public health goals."
“[A] partnership between the University of Toronto and affiliated healthcare organizations. …over 180 multidisciplinary professionals seeking to improve health care standards at both national and international levels … to provide leadership in bioethics research, education, practice and public engagement.”
The National Library of Medicine provides free access to vocabulary standards, applications, and related tools that can be used to meet US EHR certification criteria and to achieve Meaningful Use of EHRs. Below are resources either created by or supported by NLM that can be used for providing patient-specific education materials, e-prescribing, and creating, exchanging, and interpreting standardized lists of problems, medications, and test results.
H-MedAnthro , AIDS and Anthropology Research Group, Alcohol and Drug Study Group, Critical Anthropology of Health Caucus, Council on Anthropology and Reproduction, Bioethics Discussion Pages, more...
In a new book, ''Pathologies of Power'' (University of California), Dr. Farmer, who has worked and lived in Haiti for the past 20 years, criticizes human rights advocates and bioethicists for giving short shrift to the health problems of the poor.