Clinical Research

Managed Care
Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care
AHCPR Research About Managed Care Organizations
American Medical Specialty Organization (AMSO) Managed Healthcare Forum
Association for Responsible Medicine  (Medical Malpractice Victims Organization)(HMO horror stories; Florida MDs with most filed complaints)
Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care
AHCPR Research About Managed Care Organizations
American Medical Specialty Organization (AMSO) Managed Healthcare Forum
Association for Responsible Medicine  (Medical Malpractice Victims Organization)(HMO horror stories; Florida MDs with most filed complaints)
Five Stages to Managed Care - from Cost & Quality journal
HARP Cases (Health Administration Responsibility Project)
HARP  (Health Administration Responsibility Project) (best of the web legal analysis of HMO patient protections)
Integrated Healthcare Assocation (California leadership group; integrated health care and managed care policy)
National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) (evaluates HMO quality)
National Directory of Managed Care Organizations (for subscribers - online managed care database - Managed Care Information Center)
Patient Protection Act  (by state on The HMO Page)

SAMHSA's Managed Care Initiative (substance abuse/mental health)
Ten Commandments for HMOs (for patient protection, prepared by Elizabeth Charlton Moore)
HMO Page (Atrocity of the Month, Hall of Shame, patient complaints; federal and state patient protection legislation)
Integrated Healthcare Assocation (California leadership group; integrated health care and managed care policy)
Managed Care Information Center
National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) (evaluates HMO quality)
National Directory of Managed Care Organizations (for subscribers - online managed care database - Managed Care Information Center)
Patient Protection Act  (by state on The HMO Page)

SAMHSA's Managed Care Initiative (substance abuse/mental health)
Ten Commandments for HMOs (for patient protection, prepared by Elizabeth Charlton Moore)

Medicaid
Medicare & Medicaid Medicaid
Medicare & Medicaid (statute, US Code, CFR via Health Hippo)

AFDC-Related Medicaid Provisions in the New Welfare Law - 91996
Center for Health Care Strategies (Medicaid managed care resources)
Massachusetts Medicaid Consumer Network
Medicaid Reform Glossary (Texas Health & Human Services Commission)
Medicaid's Role in Insuring Low-Income Women - Commonwealth Fund
SeniorLaw: Medicare & Medicaid Recent Developments

Medical Savings Accounts
Guidelines for Medical Savings Accounts
Medical Savings Accounts Page
Medical Savings Accounts  (MSA)
Definition of MSAs  (by American Health Value, MSA Administrators)
MSA policy analysis (The Urban Institute)
Medical Savings Accounts What They Are (on The HMO Page site)

Medicare
National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare (Senator John Breaux, Chairman)

Concord Coalition - Entitlements - Medicare
Health Insurance Information, Counseling and Assistance Program (HIICAP) (Medicare, managed care, Medigap, long term care insurance and more)
Medicare & Medicaid (statute, US Code, CFR via Health Hippo)
Medicare Managed Care Departures and Service Area Reductions (analysis-Managed Care Information Center)
Medicare Reform - The Basics (Twentieth Century Fund)
SeniorLaw: Medicare & Medicaid Recent Developments

Mental Health & Substance Abuse
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Health Hippo: Mental Health and CD
Internet Mental Health
International Mental Health Network
Manisses Communications (resources on addiction, mental health, geriatrics, children's services) Manisses Communications (resources on addiction, mental health, geriatrics, children's services)
Mental Health Net (links for disorders and treatments; professional resources; news)
Mental Health Weekly - Current Issue Highlights (online newsletter from Manisses Communications Group)
National Mental Health Association
1-800-THERAPIST (live on-line therapy sessions; access & search for therapists)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Minority Health
The Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Disparities in Health (US Dept of Health and Human Services)
The Minority Health Network
Office Of Minority Health Resource Center(US Dept of Health and Human Services)

"Effect of Race and Sex on Physicians' Recommendations for Cardiac Cath" (2/25/99 New England Journal of Medicine)
"Patient's Race, Sex Influences Doctor's Care" (2/25/99 Reuters via Fox News online report on NEJM article))

Nurses' Issues
American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (registered nurses consulting in the legal field)
Association of Operating Room Nurses
California Nurses Association- Response to the PEW Report
MedExplorer - Nursing (links to associations, education, neonatal, emergency, psychiatric, triage, students and more)
NursingNet
NurseWeek
Nursing World! - American Nurses' Association (v e r y s l o w)
Royal Windsor Society for Nursing Research

Policy Organizations
Duke University Health Policy Cyberexchange (Duke University Center for Health Policy, Law and Management)
Think Tanks list - by Policy.com

Alliance For Health Reform (chaired by Senator Jay Rockefeller, co-chair Senator Bill Frist)
The Alpha Center
American Public Health Association (APHA)
Association for Responsible Medicine  (Medical Malpractice Victims Organization) (lists Florida doctors with most filed complaints)
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
The Cato Institute
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Center for Health Care Rights (Medi-Cal Managed Care)
Center for Health Care Strategies (Medicaid managed care resources) Center for Health Care Strategies (Medicaid managed care resources) Center for Health Care Strategies (Medicaid managed care resources) Center for Health Care Strategies (Medicaid managed care resources)
Center for Public Policy (links to conservative public policy research organizations)
Child Welfare League of America (1000+ member agencies serve 3 million abused/neglected child/families a year)
Children's Defense Fund
Children's Environmental Health Network (great resource)
Coalition for America's Children
Duke University Health Policy Cyberexchange (Duke University Center for Health Policy, Law and Management)
Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) (research and education on economic security and employee benefits)
FACCT--The Foundation for Accountability (unique, plentiful information on performance/quality measurements)
Families USA Foundation
Health Affairs (journal) Health Affairs (journal)
Health Care For All (leading consumer advocacy group in Massachusetts; the name says it all)
Health Service Research Journal (10 year index by author, subject)
Institute for Child Health Policy (managed care with emphasis on children with special health care needs)
Institute for Health Policy Solutions (access, cost containment and developing consumer-choice health purchasing groups)
Integrated Healthcare Assocation (California leadership group developing policy around integrated health care and managed care)
Maryland Advocates for Children and Youth
National Association of Child Advocates (building a movement for children across America)
National Organization of Physicians Who Care
Office of Public Health and Science (US HHS agency)
Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4)
Physicians for a National Health Program (Student Home Page)
Policy.com- Home Page
Research!America Central
The Urban Institute

Public and Community Health
Health Data: United States 1993 Table Of Contents

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
American Public Health Association
Case studies in community health - Civic Practices Network
Community Health InfoLine Community Health InfoLine (Kellogg Foundation models project)
Lead Poisoning Prevention Video
Martindale's "Virtual" Public Health Center
RAND - Health cost studies RAND - Health cost studies (abstracts and order forms)
Smoke Free Maryland Home Page

Public Opinion Polls
Concept Of Public Health Misunderstood By American Public
Consumer satisfaction with Health Plans - MAHMO survey of studies
GVU Center's WWW User Surveys (internet survey results online)
Health Confidence Survey (Employee Benefit Research Institute)
Public Opinion Research on Children's Issues (polls hosted by Benton Foundation for Coalition for America's Children)
MedAccess health survey form
Sick People Have Difficulty Getting Proper Care (RWJF 6/95)
Survey of children on health and safety issues - 1995 (Children Now)
Survey of Parents with Young Children - by the Commonwealth Fund
Surveys on internet usage for health purposes (from Health On the Net Foundation)
What Do Americans REALLY Think About Children?(1999 report by Harvard's Blendon, McCormick, Young)

Quality and Outcomes Research
FACCT--The Foundation for Accountability (unique, plentiful information on performance/quality measurement)
Mining Co. - Health Care Industry - Outcomes Links (general, journals, tools)
Outcomes Assessment and Research (excellent site by Carl Slater MD, U of Texas School of Public Health)
Quality of Life Assessment in Medicine - Marcello Tamburini - GLAMM Interactive ( Quality of Life Assessment in Medicine - Marcello Tamburini - GLAMM Interactive ( Quality of Life Assessment in Medicine - Marcello Tamburini - GLAMM Interactive ( Quality of Life Assessment in Medicine - Marcello Tamburini - GLAMM Interactive ( Quality of Life Assessment in Medicine - Marcello Tamburini - GLAMM Interactive (lots of links to assessment tools)

About the SF-36 - Bibliography
Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors (links to state medical licensing boards; some publish MD profiles and complaints)
Cardinal Health Information - MediQual (quantitative quality measures includes several informative examples)
The Center for Healthcare Industry Performance Studies (inpatient, outpatient, financial, operational competitor benchmarking)
Compare your health to baseline population - based on SF-36
The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
HEDIS/NCQA - Summary of Report Card Pilot Project
HMOs Use Polling Tricks To Achieve High Marks
HealthCareReportCards  (rates hospitals using risk adjusted model)
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
National Guideline Clearinghouse (a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines)
National Public Health Performance Standards Program (coordinated by US Center for Disease Control)
ORION - Guidelines for Outcomes Research (Hoechst Marion Roussel)
QMAS - Quality Measurement Advisory Service
The Picker Institute (promotes health care quality assessment; develops models to make treatment more humane)

Rural Health Care
Health Hippo - Rural Health

Michigan Center for Rural Health
National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH)
National Rural Health Association
Rural Information Center Health Service
RuralNet - Marshall Univ. Sch. of Medicine

State Health Policy
State health departments on-line
1996 Kids Count Data On-line - includes state profiles (Annie E. Casey Foundation)
State report cards on child health - National Center for Children in Poverty update (9/96)
State Updates (Alpha Center)

Connecticut KidsLink
Kentucky - Alpha Center update (8/96)
Massachusetts
New York State - Health Care Reform Act (HCRA)
Oregon - Alpha Center update (11/96)

Technology
California Health Information for Policy Project - CHIPP
Healthcare Informatics Online (monthly magazine about information technology for IT decision-makers)
Info Technology & Healthcare: @BRINT (excellent link selection)
MEDICAL MATRIX - Telemedicine
MedWeb: Telemedicine
ShareNET-Healthcare EDI Consortium (promotes use of electronic data interchange and open networks)
Telemedicine Information Exchange (TIE)

TeleMedicine
Telemedicine Today Online (best gateway to telemedicine)

Association of Telemedicine Service Providers
MEDICAL MATRIX - Telemedicine
MedWeb: Telemedicine
National Library of Medicine's NGI & Telemedicine Projects<
Telemedicine Information Exchange (TIE)

Tobacco
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) (a leading anti-smoking organization)
National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids
The Center for Social Gerontology state by state updates on settlement funds)
Duke University Health Policy Cyberexchange - Health Promotion links
Liggett Documents Online
Policy.com - tobacco links

Work Force, Labor, Employment Issues
American Medical News American Medical News (AMA article on physician unionization, Jan. 11, 1999)
Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections - 10 fastest growing occupations
The Center for the Health Professions  The Center for the Health Professions  (Univ of California, San Francisco)
"Doctors Council Affiliates with SEIU" (SEIU press release, 3/1/99)
Service Employees International Union(hospital workers, nursing homes, nurses, doctors)