The Runker's Information About
Health Informatics

SCHOOLS
University of Victoria, Victoria BC
Health Informatics Research Unit at McMaster University, Hamilton ON
Dalhousie University, Halifax NS
Stanford University, Stanford CA
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco CA
UC Davis Health System Center for Medical Informatics, Davis CA
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland OR
Washington University, St. Louis MO
University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia MO
University of Minnesota, MN
School of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences at University of Illinois, Chicago IL
Center for Biomedical Informatics, Pittsburgh PA
University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, Pittsburgh PA
Harvard University
Yale University
Columbia University, New York City NY
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, NJ
Duke University Durham NC
Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta GA
University of Florida, Miami FL
University of South Florida Tampa FL
University of Manchester, Manchester UK

ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS
International Medical Informatics Association
International Society of Cyber Pathology, UK
COACH: Canada's Health Informatics Association, Edmonton AB
COACH Physician's Special Interest Group, Calgary AB
Canadian Institute for Health Information, Ottawa ON
National Library of Medicine, Washington DC
Medical Library Association
American Medical Informatics Association, Washington DC "Advancing Health Care Through Information Technology"
Association of Clinical Medical Informatics
American Health Information Management Association
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI)
Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI) - Cumann Riomheolais Slainte, Dublin IE
Society for Medical and Biological Information Processing - Vereniging voor Medische en Biologische Informatieverwerking (VBMI), Rotterdam NL
Berufsverband Medizinischer Informatiker (BVMI), Heidelberg DE
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Informatik (GMDS), Koln DE
Swedish Society for Medical Information Processing, Gothenburg SE
Association pour les Applications de l"Informatique a la Medecine, Nancy FR
Swiss Society for Medical Informatics (SSMI), Zurich CH
Osterreichische Computergesellschaft
Polish Society of Medical Informatic, Lodz PL
Ukraine Association for Computer Medicine, Kharkiv UA

Association Argentina de Informatica Medica (AAIM), Buenos Aires AR
Brazilian Society of Health Informatics, Sao Paolo BR
Japan Association for Medical Informatics, Osaka JP
Medical Informatics at Osaka Medical College, Osaka JP
Association for Informatics in Medicine, Singapore (AIMS), Singapore
Health Informatics Society of Australia, Brunswick East AU

ONLINE TEXTS AND COURSE NOTES
Handbook of Medical Informatics, van Bemmel JH, Musen MA, eds., Rotterdam NL
G4001: Introduction to Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York NY
Internet Guide for the Health Professional Downloadable book in PDF format

JOURNALS
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Medical Computing Today
Healthcare Information Management and Communications Canada
Health Care Computing
Medical Computing Today
Health and Medical Informatics Digest
Health Management Technology
Healthcare Informatics

CORPORATE SITES
Hewlett-Packard Medical Products Group
Sapient Health Network Portland OR
Medicalogic Portland OR
Physician Micro Systems, Inc. Seattle WA Office management software
Pathology Informatics, Incorporated Pathology images
Center for Applied Medical Informatics Kalamazoo MI Consulting and Corporate Training
DFDIS Pittsburgh PA Pathology informatics
Tamtron San Jose CA Information systems for health care, including the PowerPath 200 for anatomic pathology

LINKS
General
Galaxy's Medical Informatics Links
Webmed's Medical Informatics Links
Medical Matrix: Informatics
HIRU Links
UC Davis Medical Informatics Links
Duke's Medical Informatics Links
About MEDLINE
Medical Nomenclature
IMIA WG 6: Classification, Language and Concept Representation
Guide to Health Informatics Standards
SNOMED Inernational A standardized system of medical nomenclature
Unified Medical Language System The NLM's metathesaurus
HL-7 Standards Helping hospitals communicate
Vocabulary, Coding and Concept Representation
Electronic Patient Record
Computer-based Patient Record Institute
Medical Records Institute MA
The Computer-based Patient Record, Managed Care and Clinical Outcomes Research
Digital Medical Imaging
Links About Digital Medical Imaging
Digital Imaging in Pathology
Center for Biomedical Imaging University of Medicine and Dentistry
Medical Decision Support
DxExplain
Telemedicine / Health Networks
IMIA WG 9: Health Informatics for Development
HSLS Medical Informatics and Telemedicine Pittsburgh PA
IMIA WG 16: Standards in Health Care Informatics
Bioinformatics
Informatics and the Human Genome Project
NIH Computational Molecular Biology Bethesda MD
Medical Research Council Bioinformatics
DEAMBULUM Biology and Bioinformatics Servers in Europe
Genome Web Genome sites on the World Wide Web
Medical Education
Hotlinks: Healthy People 2000 on the World Wide Web Hotlinks to health
Information Technology and the Clinical Curriculum
How to Recognize a Melanoma An online tutorial

AMIA '99 Annual Symposium
"Transforming Health Care Through Informatics: Cornerstones For A New Information Management Paradigm"
Washington DC
06-10 November 1999