… a project of Massachusetts General Hospital, … to find the best treatments for depression and bipolar disorder. For the first time, patients, families, doctors, and researchers are working together as equal partners to change the direction of mood disorder research.
The Cochrane Library is a collection of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Six databases are available including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and a register of controlled trials.
Based at Dartmouth University
“Focused on the development, evaluation and dissemination of technology-based therapeutic tools targeting substance use and co-occurring behavioral health issues.”
"NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health and medical research. The NIH website offers health information for the public, scientists, researchers, medical professionals, patients, educators, and students."
“[A] partnership between the University of Toronto and affiliated healthcare organizations. …over 180 multidisciplinary professionals seeking to improve health care standards at both national and international levels … to provide leadership in bioethics research, education, practice and public engagement.”
The National Library of Medicine provides free access to vocabulary standards, applications, and related tools that can be used to meet US EHR certification criteria and to achieve Meaningful Use of EHRs. Below are resources either created by or supported by NLM that can be used for providing patient-specific education materials, e-prescribing, and creating, exchanging, and interpreting standardized lists of problems, medications, and test results.
NLM is the central coordinating body for clinical terminology standards within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). NLM works closely with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to ensure NLM's efforts are aligned with the goal of the President and HHS Secretary for the nationwide implementation of an interoperable health information technology infrastructure to improve the quality and efficiency of health care.
Ex: Managing the Metric vs Managing the Patient: The Physician’s View of Pay for Performance, Inpatient Management Guidelines for People with Diabetes, Reducing Health Care Costs for Plan Members with Congestive Heart Failure...
From the Executive Summary: "The American health care delivery system is in need of fundamental change. Many patients, doctors, nurses, and health care leaders are concerned that the care delivered is not, essentially, the care we should receive... The fr
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