Internet Guides
	Hardin Meta Directory: Medical Informatics From Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa Hardin Meta Directory: Telemedicine From Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa Health Informatics World Wide International directory of institutions arranged by country. From Department of Medical Informatics, University Hospital, Freiburg University, Germany Health Web: Health Informatics From Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University HealthWeb: Telemedicine From Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa Medical Informatics and Medicine From Dr Jeremy Rogers MRCGP, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK MedWeb: Informatics From Emory University Health Sciences Center Library MedWeb: Telemedicine From Emory University Health Sciences Center Library Telemedicine Links From Fletcher Allen Health Care/University of Vermont
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Internet Sites
	Classification of Diseases, National Center for Health Statistics Descriptions and downloadable files for International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-CM) Clinical Guideline Representation and Sharing Overview of GLIF (Guideline Interchange Format), a common standard for guideline interchange developed by researchers at Harvard, McGill, Stanford, and Columbia. Health Level Seven HL7 is a nonprofit standards developing organization operating in the health care environment. Its best-known specification is a messaging standard that enables disparate healthcare applications to exchange clinical and administrative data. LOINC and RELMA, Regenstrief Institute Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) provides a standard set of names and codes for identifying individual laboratory results, clinical observations, and diagnostic findings. RELMA is the Regenstrief Institute's set of tools for applying LOINC. Telemedicine Information Exchange Comprehensive site includes searchable databases covering telemedicine projects, literature, programs, funding, and meetings Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Integrated system of vocabulary-related tools ("knowledge sources") whose purpose is to "help health professionals and researchers retrieve and integrate electronic biomedical information from a variety of sources and to make it easy for users to link disparate information systems, including patient records, bibliographic databases, factual databases, and expert systems."
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Organizations, Associations, and Agencies
	American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) American Telemedicine Association (ATA) AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) British Medical Informatics Society Fact Sheet: IAIMS Grants - Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems Describes ongoing National Library of Medicine grant program that supports development of networked information systems for education, research, patient care, and administration at medical centers and health science institutions FP Net, American Academy of Family Physicians Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) HIMSS is an organization for professionals working with healthcare information technology. The web site provides resources such as the online version of the journal JHIM, conference and education material, and members-only areas. Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) International Medical Informatics Association Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance (JHITA) Activities include advocacy, legislative and regulatory monitoring, and education for the health care information systems industry. Participating organizations include AMIA, CHIM, CHIME and HIMSS. Medical Informatics Section, Medical Library Association Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) Coordinates and promotes use of telehealth technologies through partnerships with other federal and state agencies and private groups; administers grant programs; provides technical assistance and evaluation; develops policy initiatives. Research Programs, National Library of Medicine Includes links to NLM research and training programs in computational molecular biology, medical informatics, and digital computing and communications Section on Computers and Other Technologies (SCOT), American Academy of Pediatrics SNOMED International SNOMED is a standardized vocabulary used in coding clinical diagnoses and procedures, originally developed by the College of American Pathologists. Society for Computer Applications in Radiology Working Group Program/Special Interest Group Program, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Includes links to existing group Web sites
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Electronic Newsletters and Journals
	JAMIA (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association) (Available only to HSLS-affiliated users)
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Teaching and Learning
	Academic and Training Programs From the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Distance Learning in Medical Informatics From the Division of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research, Oregon Health Sciences University Medical Informatics: A Course for Health Professionals Description of week-long fellowship program for "medical educators, medical librarians, medical administrators, and young faculty who are not currently knowledgeable but can become agents of change in their institutions." Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and held at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood's Hole, MA. Stanford Medical Informatics Introductory Short Course Available both on the Stanford University campus and online University Medical Informatics Research Training Programs Supported by NLM Links to medical informatics training programs currently sponsored by the National Library of Medicine
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