Ceasefire on Health Care -Bipartisan effort to reform America's health care system
Represents an effort to stimulate dialogue with leading Republican and Democratic policymakers and advocates in order to develop meaningful, incremental reform to the nation’s health care system.
http://www.ceasefireonhealthcare.com - Details

ECRI
Provides publications, information, and consulting services internationally for healthcare technology assessment and cost effectiveness, risk and environmental management, and patient safety; site includes Includes classification guides, evaluation services, clinical alerts, data bases, and links to related sites.
http://www.ecri.org/ - Details

Healthy Public Policy at MJSahl Consulting
Provides consulting assistance for health care management and public health; services include management and administrative support, needs assessment, literature reviews, research analysis, and grant writing assistance.
http://home.earthlink.net/~healthypublicpolicy/ - Details

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - AHRQ
Formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Provides practical health care information, research findings, and data to help consumers, health providers, health insurers, researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues.
http://www.ahcpr.gov/ - Details

International Association of Health Policy
International network of scholars, health workers and activists with the aim of promoting the scientific analysis of public health issues.
http://www.healthp.org/ - Details

MTO Negligence: Ontario, Canada
Describes how decisions resulting in revocation of driver's licenses are based on diagnosis of visual deficiency rather than ability to operate a motor vehicle safely. Provides advice and links to related web sites.
http://www.angelfire.com/on4/ontariomtovision/ - Details

Division of Laboratory Systems
Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Provides standards and guidelines for laboratories as well as training.
http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/DLS/ - Details

HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society)
Provides leadership in healthcare for the management of technology, information and change through publications, educational opportunities and advocacy. Includes publications, research, online course, and related resources.
http://www.himss.org/ASP/index.asp - Details

Center for Advancement of Health
Translates to the public the latest evidence-based research on health, health care, prevention and chronic disease management, with an emphasis on how social, behavioral and economic factors affect illness and well-being.
http://www.cfah.org - Details

Center for Law and the Public's Health
Information on the Center at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities. Features resources on public health law, ethics, and policy for public health practitioners, lawyers, policy-makers, and scholars.
http://www.publichealthlaw.net/ - Details

Medical Outcomes Trust
Dedicated to improving health and health care by promoting the science of outcomes measurement, and the development, evaluation and distribution of standardized, high quality instruments that measure health and the outcomes of medical care. Includes online publications.
http://www.outcomes-trust.org/ - Details

NCQA: National Committee for Quality Assurance
Provides information about the quality of national managed care plans to enable consumers to evaluate health plan performance. Includes links to accreditation and certification programs, compliance audits, health plan report cards, and credentialing data.
http://www.ncqa.org/ - Details

North American Restroom Association
Nonprofit organization focusing on issues related to restroom design, availability, health impact, and municipal friendliness rating.
http://americanrestroom.org - Details

Health Policy Monitor
Provides reports on health policy reforms from 15 industrialized countries to enhance global discussions on policy making; resources include current health policy ideas, approaches, model projects, and legislation.
http://www.healthpolicymonitor.org/ - Details

Duke Health Policy Cyberexchange
Portal site for health policy information on the Web.
http://www.hpolicy.duke.edu/cyberexchange - Details

Melanoma Research Project Network
Comprehensive information on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of melanoma and skin cancer. Includes decision-finding and self-examination modules, interactive sessions, publications, and links to related sites. [May not support all browsers.]
http://www.melresproj.com/ - Details

Tanzania District Health Resource
Provides information on district health services in Tanzania; resources include policy, regulation, experiences, and innovations.
http://www.districthealthservice.com/ - Details

Harvard Business Online
Offers electronic access to current and past Harvard Business Review articles and collections, Harvard Business School Press books, cases, newsletters, eLearning programs. Provides research on business topics, including leadership, strategy, communication, and organizational development.
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ - Details

MCHB Webcast
View live webcasts, webcast archives, conference archives and training resources from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
http://www.mchcom.com/ - Details

Cerner Corporation
Designs clinical information systems and financial applications to improve health care delivery. Products and services integrate information technology and health care issues, such as patient safety, e-health, and operational performance, for use by physicians, hospital administrators, pharmacists, and patients.
http://www.cerner.com/default.asp - Details