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Page Contents
Health Informatics Europe: WireHealth Informatics Worldwide
Healthwise: Providing Answers to Your Questions
InternetHe@lth
ipath Project
Telehealth Events Conference
Telehealth Links
Telemedicine in Low Resource Settings
Web Sites dealing with Health Informatics & Telematics
WHO: Medical Informatics
Listing
Health Informatics
Europe: Wire
This site is a 'weblog' of news,
abstracts of projects and digests of latest developments in
health informatics. It is organized by date of receipt and
includes an archive of articles from 1998 to date. The site
is maintained by the European Federation of Medical
Informatics. http://www.hi-europe.info/wire/default.htm
Health Informatics
Worldwide
Health Informatics Worldwide is a
regularly updated list of the most relevant links to websites
on health informatics. The links are organized by country and
the site is maintained by the Department of Medical
Informatics, University Hospital of Freiburg, Germany.
http://www.hiww.org/
Healthwise: Providing Answers to Your
Questions (Focus on Low-Income
Countries)
Healthwise researches and summarizes answers to clinical and
public health questions from healthcare providers, with a
particular focus on developing countries. The service focuses
on tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, maternal health, child
survival, and reproductive health. The site contains an
archive of previous questions. It is a joint product of the
Health Communication Partnership and the INFO Project of the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for
Communication Programs (CCP), U.S. http://www.hcpartnership.org/Healthwise/
InternetHe@lth
This site links to InternetHe@lth, a peer reviewed 'Journal
on Medical Internet Research, Applications, Communication and
Ethics'. The site contains links to the fulltext copies of
the current and archival issues of the journal. The
publication supports initiatives to provide free and open
access to biomedical research. http://www.internet-health.org/
ipath
Project
This site provides information about
telemedicine projects, with a particular focus on
telepathology and telemicroscopy. Updated in 2005, iPath is a
modulear platform for different telemedicine applications
including distance learning and real-time case discussions.
The site includes a medical forum to discuss individual
pathology cases and descriptions of several telepathology
projects in developing countries. The site uses a
downloadable open source software platform. It is maintained
by Department of Pathology, University of Basil, Switzerland.
http://telemed.ipath.ch/ipath/
Telehealth Events Conference
This site contains a list of upcoming telehealth conferences. For each conference, there is a brief summary and contact details. http://www.informationfortomorrow.com/events.htm
Telehealth
Links
The links on this site are organized into
subject categories including networks, projects,
organizations, journals, articles, bibliographies,
terminology and education sites. The site is maintained by
John Mitchell and Associates (Australia) for the global
development of telehealth. http://www.jma.com.au/telehealth_links.htm
Telemedicine in Low
Resource Settings (Focus on Low-Income
Countries)
This discussion group focuses on telemedicine in low resource
settings and aims at enabling information exchange and
improved collaboration between existing telemedicine projects
as well as to develop and communicate best practice models.
In addition to the ongoing discussion, the site contains
relevant resources and projects. This is a joint initiative
between the Queensland Centre for Online Health, the iPath
project at University of Basel and other organizations.
Registration is required but is free. http://www.dgroups.org/groups/telemedicine/
Telemedicine
Information Exchange (TIE)
The site is a
gateway to information on telemedicine and telehealth. It
includes information on meetings, programs, funding sources
and Internet links. Also included are an extensive
bibliography and a section of links to telemedicine courses.
The site contains a keyword search engine and is maintained
by the Telemedicine Research Center, U.S. http://tie.telemed.org/default.asp
Web Sites dealing with
Health Informatics & Telematics
This site
is an extensive alphabetical listing of links developed by
the European Health Telematics Observatory. To access, click
on the 'related links' icon in the left-hand frame. The site
also contains subject links to IT, informatics and
telemedicine developments throughout Europe. http://www.ehto.org/ikb/urls/worldwidelinks.html
WHO: Medical
Informatics (Focus on Low-Income
Countries)
The sites provides links to descriptions of activities,
reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating
partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on
medical informatics. Also shown are links to related
web sites and topics including the Global Observatory for
eHealth and WHO regional sites. http://www.who.int/topics/medical_informatics/en/
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Updated: 10 January 2008