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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.
H-MedAnthro , AIDS and Anthropology Research Group, Alcohol and Drug Study Group, Critical Anthropology of Health Caucus, Council on Anthropology and Reproduction, Bioethics Discussion Pages, more...
In a new book, ''Pathologies of Power'' (University of California), Dr. Farmer, who has worked and lived in Haiti for the past 20 years, criticizes human rights advocates and bioethicists for giving short shrift to the health problems of the poor.