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Computerization and New Technologies in Healthcare
Into the Year 2000: From the On-ramp to the Autobahn

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Introduction

  • Introduction
  • My search
  • Current state of affairs
  • Summary statements

State-of-the art sites

Drivers and megatrends

  • Benfield Group - Provides an overview of many of the drivers behind the changes in the healthcare system, and looks at the place of information technologies and business opportuities for providers.

Leading-edge developers in information systems and other related sites

  • Concurrent Engineering Research Center - West Virginia University Collaboration Technology for Real-Time Treatment of Patients Advanced Research Testbed for Medical

  • American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) - goal is to serve reliable health information to health information managers and health care providers. Most of this site is still under construction.

  • American Medical Informatics Association "Advancing Health Care Through Information Technology - the premier association in the US dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics.

  • Healthcare Information Infrastructure Technology Program (HIIT) - address the current healthcare information infrastructure serious problems by accelerating the development and adoption of open, integrated healthcare information systems, especially the computerized patient record.

  • Achoo - On-line Healthcare Services The Global Healthcare Community At Your Fingertips - a global healthcare service for the global healthcare community.

  • The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) - for directors of healthcare information systems.

  • InterHealth - a values-driven group of non-profit health organizations and strategic business partners providing a collaborative network for education, research and advocacy. This group also includes sites dedicated to health and faith.

  • CPS Communications - a site dedicated to pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing and promotion, from CPS Communications, Inc.. It had an article New Media Report Card: Where are we now? in the February 1995 edition that discusses the application of new media to heath information and healthcare.

  • Community Health Information - links to health care providers and some model community programs.

     

    Government - Healthcare reform Information Infrastructure

    Global perspective

    • Australia - a review of literature on health information developments in Australia: The National Health Information Agreement

    • Brazil - The Center for Biomedical Informatics State University of Campinas Brazil

    • Canada - building Canada's health information highway: A health information infrastructure.

    • British Columbia - BC's health industries network.

    • China

    • Japan - global healthcare aplications: a collaborative venture between MITI and the Ministery of Health and Welfare.

    Training sites

    Healthcare providers

  • Student health center - Mr. Larry Payton - Director - American University Student Health Center

  • Medical student - Dr. Gayle Galletta - Georgetown University Medical School

  • School nurse/ School nurse practitioner graduate student - Jeanne Mulligan R. N. - Alexandria City Schools/ Catholic University

  • Entrepreneur - Dr. Robert Karch Executive Director - Karch International

  • Consultant - Dr. Dan Newton - Benfield Group

     

    The future

    • personal medical card

    • consumer access to information

    • personal digital assistants

    Note: Several of the images on these pages are being shared and have been manipulated for the purpose of this paper according to generally accepted internet etiquette. The use of these images is for educational purposes only.

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    • Last Updated: March 28, 2005